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 February 18, 2019.
What would social media be like as the world is ending?
In Mark Doten’s “Trump Sky Alpha,” a journalist who has survived Trump’s nuclear apocalypse gets an assignment from what’s left of the New York Times Magazine: find out what people were tweeting as the bombs fell.
→ Read it on Longreads
Why ice cream is your go-to break-up food
You get dumped. You reach for a pint of ice cream. Here’s why your brain tells you to grab a spoon.
→ Read it on Huffington Post
Our obsession with before-and-after photos
Humans can’t resist a transformation story, and social media has provided a perfect home for regular people to document their own weight loss and other kinds of shape-shifting.
→ Read it on Vox
Daily life in North Korea
As the second meeting between Trump and Kim Jong-Un approaches, Arte presents three original documentaries about Korea. Far from being predictable, “Pyongyang s’amuse” seeks to demonstrate the real daily lives of North Koreans.
→ Read it on Les Inrockuptibles (French)
Joe Beef: Surviving the apocalypse
The two chefs of the iconic Montreal restaurant, Joe Beef, discuss their recent sobriety and how it has impacted the culture of their restaurants.
→ Read it on Bon Appétit
In your earbuds: Grand bien vous fasse!
Host Ali Rebeihi tackles big social questions, as well as lifestyle, psychology, family, education, health, romance, sexuality… Everything and anything from a unique point of view.
→ Listen to it on France Inter (French)
Instagram fave
French illustrator and blogger Margaux Motin uses Instagram to tells stories about life as a thirtysomething.
Photo: Deposit Photos
