The System That Actually Worked
The internet has dealt with unprecendented levels of traffic during lockdown, and has largely managed to cope.
Online collection
The British Museum has revamped its online collection and it is impressive, a treasure trove of high quality images from the collection accompanied with explanatory notes, curated and tagged for easy discovery.
What Happened to Val Kilmer? He’s Just Starting to Figure It Out.
Yes, this is a profile of Val Kilmer, but it’s also something more far reaching, reflecting on the world in lockdown, religious belief and serious illness, Mark Twain, and the perverse impact that fame can have (“God wants us to walk, but the devil sends a limo.”).
The Bard
The powerful story of a man who made it his mission to preserve the songs sung to him by fellow prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp.
How Greenwich Republicans Learned to Love Trump
A look at how wealthy areas of the United States that were historically bastions of establishment Republican politics have come to align with Donald Trump.
My Life With Face Blindness
On life with prosopagnosia, a condition that impairs sufferers’ abilities to recognise familiar faces.
‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+
The author’s time spent bingeing on Disney+ provides the perfect backdrop for this study of the company’s canon, their ‘mission’, and their corporate fortunes.
Color and Light
It’s a safe bet that anyone who enjoyed reading Sally Rooney’s novels, or is enjoying watching the BBC adaptation of Normal People, will enjoy this short story.
Mapping subterranean Britain’s tubes
A speaker from the Ordnance Survey details the challenges that mapping today’s subterranean infrastructure presents in this talk.