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 23rd 2018.
How fashion tastes “low culture” through fast food collabs
From Forever 21 x Taco Bell to Kith x Coca-Cola, fast food and (fast) fashion have hopped into bed with each other quite frequently in the past few years. What’s driving this desire for fast food companies to align with fashion brands?
→ Read it on SSENSE
The Jell-O Family Curse
How a fortune made from marketing desserts to women also became a curse, handed down from generation to generation.
→ Read it on Vanity Fair
Artificial Intelligence on why atheism is unpopular
The Forecasting Religiosity and Existential Security project, built using an AI model, examines questions about nonbelief, like “Why aren’t there more atheists?” and “Why is America secularizing at a slower rate than Western Europe?”
→ Read it on The Atlantic
Finding comfort on the slow web
Surfing the web used to feel a lot more like actual surfing. Grab your (key)board, paddle out, and spend some time bobbing in the calm waters of the worldwide web. Now? It’s a bit like trying to surf a tsunami.
→ Read it on Wired
The psychology behind Instant Pot’s success
The designer behind the Instant Pot and its successor—the $200 Max—talks about easing the anxiety of American chefs.
→ Read it on Fast Company
In your earbuds: Fatal Voyage
An A-List Hollywood actress vanishes from a yacht and her body washes ashore the following morning. Her husband claims she accidentally fell overboard. Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood is a 12-part audio documentary series that will break new ground on Hollywood’s most enduring murder mystery.
→ Listen to it on iTunes
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