Nestlé Makes Billions Bottling Water It Pays Nearly Nothing For

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There’s a documentary on Netflix called Tapped about the bottled water industry. Read this or watch that.

April 5, 2018 environment industry






Outside Voices

This excerpted essay by Sloane Crosley is gold. So much fun to read, and I immediately bought the book afterwards.

Be kind, I thought, for some of the people you meet are using the same organic dishwashing liquid.

April 5, 2018 new yorker new york book excerpt






Short Cuts

For that matter, to say that a Guardian reader consents to all the ways the Guardian uses their data (which they deposit every time they visit the website) is to misunderstand the essentially malleable nature of data itself. Its potential value and use emerges after one has collected it, not before. … It’s sometimes said that data is the oil’ of the digital economy, the resource that fuels everything else. A more helpful analogy is between oil and privacy, a concealed natural resource that is progressively plundered for private profit, with increasingly harmful consequences for society at large.

April 5, 2018 cambridge analytica social media privacy internet






An interview with Bernie Madoff

One evening, my home phone rang. You have a collect call from Bernard Madoff, an inmate at a federal prison,” a recording announced. And there he was.

March 20, 2018 nymag






The science behind looking like your name

New research suggests that the stereotype that a given society has of a first name can influence the way people look.

This one is for you, Emily!

March 20, 2018 weforum science






To Combat Loneliness, Promote Social Health

Having social connections keeps you healthy.

Thanks, friends.

March 2, 2018 scientific american science health loneliness society






How Pop-Ups Took Over America’s Restaurants

Limited-edition restaurants, elite chef residencies,” and other one-night-only dining experiences have become the fastest-moving craze in food.

Favorite lines from this article:

Follow five hot young chefs on Instagram and you’ll start to stumble upon pop-ups the way you do Bonobos ads.

You can sell a burger for $25 in New York and no one fucking bats an eye.

What they waited for was not so much a meal but the deliverance of content.

March 2, 2018 gq restaurants dining culture






Full-sentence movie titles are increasingly common

The odd phenomenon was in full effect at Sundance this year.

Related, check out the podcast Film Snuff, where the hosts tear apart supposedly great movies that actually suck.

March 2, 2018 quartz podcast movie