Weekend reading list – week of November 19, 2018

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 November 19th 2018.

Black Friday or Climate Friday
Black Friday deals have us all in their thrall. While for some, it’s an opportunity to save big or to indulge, for others, it’s an opportunity to reflect on how our excessive consumption is killing the planet.
→ Read it on L’adn (French)

Do you even bake, bro?
Silicon Valley has fallen in love with sourdough and has decided to disrupt the 6,000-year-old craft of making bread, one crumb at a time.
→ Read it on Eater

The rise of the porn meme
Alongside GIFs, Vines, and pictures from pop culture, clips from porn videos are increasing popular meme fodder on social media sites. Why?
→ Read it on New Statesman (NSFW)

Why komodo dragons haven’t conquered the world
Komodo dragons live on a handful of islands in Indonesia, but their reputation has spread far and wide. The razor-toothed monitor lizards hunt deer in packs and have even attacked humans on occasion. But it turns out, they are real homebodies.
→ Read it on The New York Times

The clowning life
The film Laugh Clown Laugh explores the complex role of the fool in reflecting humanity’s many contradictions. For professional performer Reinhard Horstkotte, clowning requires a deep well of both empathy and vulnerability.
→ Watch it on The Atlantic

We got our 3%
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Our Senior Copywriter, Caroline Joassin, and our Creative Director Adriana Palanca share their highlights from the 3 Percent Conference, an annual event that explores creative leadership.
→ Read it on Infopresse (French)

In your earbuds: The History Chicks
Beckett Graham and Susan Vollenweider, present The History Chicks, a podcast that introduces you to female characters in history, factual or fictional. Each episode looks at their challenges, failures and other juicy bits that will get you curious enough to learn more.
→ Listen to it on The History Chicks

Instagram fave
Photographers living and working in Africa, finding the extreme not nearly as prevalent as the familiar, the everyday.

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When I ask today’s Ghanaian to pronounce 1,097,953,028.57 in his or her mother tongue, they struggle. When I ask them to name three ancestors in chronological order starting with their grandmother, they struggle. Same can tell me everything about Jesus, his disciples and his lineage. They know everything about the Prophet Mohammed. They know everything about everybody else but themselves. Ghana’s tragedy is that a powerful, beautiful, strong, rich, intelligent people have been brainwashed to believe everything foreign is better and nothing of theirs is of any value. When Ghanaians (and all Africa) begin to see the enormity of our blessings, we’ll no longer comfortably sit on gold and beg for brass. Photo and Words by Nana Kofi Acquah (www.nkacquah.com) @africashowboy (Copyright: 2018). #ghana #beach #elminacastle #elmina

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Photo: Jose Angel Astor Rocha

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