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 July 16th 2018.
The end of selfie-swiping dating culture?
Unlike the services rooted in the selfie-and-swipe mentality, the Personals app seeks to help users create authentic connections based on their common interests. Bye bye Tinder?
→ Read it on Wired
SKAM: the teen drama that unfolds one post at a time
Is a narrative built from Facebook comments, texts, and Instagram stories the future of TV?
→ Read it on New Yorker
What does your Love Wins t-shirt really say?
The “slogan tee” is one of many cultural markers of the polarization in North America. That said, Associate Professor Rachel Greenwald Smith explains that it also proves how easily we can commercialize dissent.
→ Read it on L.A. Review of Books
How cannabis could transform Lebanon
And now Lebanon is considering the legalization of cannabis. If the government succeeds in taking over the billion-dollar cannabis industry—currently controlled by armed groups—some parts of the countries will be completely transformed.
→ Read it on The Guardian
The rise of pseudo-pharmacies
Welcome to the age of online pseudo-pharmacies! These startups are funded by venture capital, radiate with pastel shades and are cool af.
→ Read it on The Outline
In your earbuds: Bajada Dialogues
An avid podcast fan, musician Jason Bajada has started his own, called Bajada Dialogues. Each episode features an interview between Bajada and a performing artist. Discussions explore life, music, fashion, art, politics, spirituality… and mac ‘n’ cheese.
→ Listen to it on Bajada Dialogues (French and English)
Who to follow:
Cereal is a UK-based travel and lifestyle magazine. Each issue features a few destinations and contains interviews, as well as passionate articles about design, art and fashion.
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