Each week, we share the top five articles that caught our attention. Here are your must-reads, published here and abroad, for the week of December 3, 2018.
The push to change the way you poo
The popularity of the Squatty Potty, and the existence of its many rivals and imitators, is one of the clearest signs of an anxiety that’s been growing in the west for the past decade: that we have been “pooping all wrong”.
→ Read it on The Guardian
The over-celebration of life events
Gender reveals, post-wedding receptions, divorce parties, promposals—young people now have more and more public festivities for milestones that used to be privately celebrated.
→ Read it on The Atlantic
Toward a more radical selfie
Selfies become even more difficult to fathom when one asks for whom they are made. Certainly not for the selfie taker, from whom they demand exhausting, self-negating labor, nor is it for the general viewer and their tepid responses. Actor and filmmaker India Ennenga explores the philosophical implications.
→ Read it on The Paris Review
Satan takes the blame for everything
When a crime occurs that has the tinge of Satan attached to it, the media tends to concentrate on the Satan part instead of the actual issues at hand. What are we trying to avoid seeing?
→ Read it on The Outline
The friendship that made Google huge
Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of the company—and the Internet.
→ Read it on The New Yorker
In your earbuds: Other People’s Problems
Real people. Real problems. Real talk. Normally, therapy sessions are totally confidential — but this podcast opens the doors. Hillary McBride and her clients want to help demystify mental health.
→ Listen to it on Tune In
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Stella Maria Baer is a painter and photographer originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico. In her work she explores the mythology of the desert, the cosmology of space, and the topography of the human body.
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