Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Wired magazines in-depth interview with Eric Snowden: Snowden is careful about what’s known in the intelligence world as operational security. As we sit down, he removes the battery from his […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. New York Times blogger Ross Douthat reflects on the tragic death of actor Robin Williams: It is extremely difficult to straddle comedy and drama, to say nothing of the worlds […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. All dogs can actually go to heaven: But you can forget digging a hole for for Nibbles, Chester or Fido in that ever-expanding back yard pet cemetery, there’s a far […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. Monks in America diversify in brewing beer: There’s a big focus on sustainability and green practices: Local farmers use the spent grain as animal feed and compost, and the brewery […]
Every year Praxis editor Matthew Shedden (@sheddenm) live tweets the MLB All-Star game as well as puts together a Briefing of interesting links and articles for the midpoint of the season. If you’re made this far into the ASG Briefing but are still skeptical, Will Leitch points out a special thing about the MLB ASG: I love that the […]
Each Friday we compile a list of interesting links and articles our editors find from across the web. Here’s what’s catching our eye this week. A sneak peak at Marilynne Robinson’s forthcoming Lila (the Briefing has already preordered): If there was anyone in the world the child hated worst, it was Doll. She’d go scrubbing […]
Howard Megdal makes a defense for the hot dog: Let’s be honest: When you are eating a hot dog, you are making a bargain with God. There’s a certain amount of information you normally receive when you purchase food. You buy a hamburger, there’s a certain level of belief that it’s ground beef. The same […]
The Verge claims that the U.S. has very few options to save Iraq: Less than four years after the withdrawal of American troops, Iraq is once again descending into chaos and violence. Islamist insurgents from an al-Qaeda breakaway group have seized large swaths of northern Iraq, and are marching toward Baghdad. The unrest has inflamed […]
Online publications know a lot about you, particularly about what you do online. In fact, they may know better than you do. The Atlantic explains it in detail. You may not realize this, but we can see you. Yes, you. The human reading this article. We have analytics that tells us roughly where you are, what site […]