Clips

Latest stories (updated November 2024)

my favorite ones are bolded

• The Fairy Tale We’ve Been Retelling for 125 Years for The Atlantic (11/23/24)
• Do you have a celebrity twin? The surprising science behind doppelgängers for National Geographic (11/22/24)
• What are parasocial relationships doing to our brains? for National Geographic (10/30/24)
• Pesto the penguin is growing up. How will life change for the internet's favorite bird? for National Geographic (10/29/24)
• ‘BBL Drizzy’ Was the Beginning of the Future of AI Music for WIRED (10/28/24)
• A New Documentary Charts the Sinking of Shackleton's ‘Endurance’—and Its Rediscovery a Century Later for Conde Nast Traveller (10/25/24)
• The Beatles Live! for Fansplaining (10/23/24)
• What if the Solution to Men’s Loneliness Is … Freemasonry? for Slate (9/28/24)
• Raised in a tenement, killed in battle at 27 — the all-too-brief life of a great Jewish artist and poet for The Forward (9/14/24)
• Heavy Baggage: the most luxurious luggage is the kind you don't have to carry for Sherwood News (8/21/24)
• The lost cities of the Amazon and the ex-VC trying to find them for Sherwood News (7/19/24)
• A Stream Flowing Towards The Sea for Long Now (7/18/24)
• That part of Twitter: Subletting from the post-rationalists for Dirt (7/12/24)
• Soapy short-form web novels are taking over TikTok, fueling a $4.4 billion industry for Sherwood News (6/28/24)
• How an airplane mechanic named Bennie Roth became the first Jew to set foot on Antarctica for The Forward (6/27/24)
• Fan Fic Book Boom: Publishers are scouring the world of fan fiction to find the next hit author for Sherwood News (4/15/24)
• Antarctic Explorers Wrote Cute, Funny Stories to Hide Dangerous Stunts for Atlas Obscura (3/4/24)
• How Antarctica’s history of isolation is ending—thanks to Starlink for MIT Technology Review (2/26/24)
• The Polar Explorer, and Scammer, Who Should Be an American Hero for the New York Times (12/25/23)
• That "presidential look": How fashion can make or break a candidate for the White House for Business Insider (12/10/23)
• The Work That Lasts for Long Now (11/30/23)
• Can David Tennant’s return to Doctor Who usher in another golden age? for Polygon (11/22/23)
• Before the internet, one housewife was there to save your favorite show from cancellation for Business Insider (11/21/23)
• Tumblr is betting big on going small for The Verge (11/17/23)
• Can the Harry Potter fandom carry on while ignoring J.K. Rowling? for Polygon (9/12/23)
• 5 reasons (and the 5 best seasons) to love the wickedly hilarious UK panel show Taskmaster for Polygon (8/2/23)
• The Titan submarine tragedy turned our feeds into a morbid circus for Polygon (6/23/23)
• TikTok’s viral movie clips are changing how I watch films for Polygon (5/10/23)
• Custom AI chatbots are quietly becoming the next big thing in fandom for The Verge (3/13/23)
• 5 shows like Fleabag that prove there’s nothing better than a dirtbag lead for Polygon (3/5/23)
• AI-generated audio of Joe Biden and Donald Trump trashtalking while gaming is taking over TikTok for Insider (3/1/2023)
• The Truth About Antarctica for Long Now (2/21/23)
• George Santos' elaborate lies have seen the congressman compared to a 19th-century huckster. History bears that out. for Insider (2/20/23)
• Twitter’s API changes could spell harassment for fan accounts for Polygon (2/8/13)