Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Photo Boris Johnson in London on Monday. Credit Jack Taylor/Getty Images Well, that didn’t take long. Some of the most prominent politicians behind the “Leave” campaign are backing away from the false claims and dubious promises that they made in the run-up to the referendum to take Britain out of the European Union. Your Thoughts…
It seems Farage was right… again… “Can we all just grow up, stop this absolute scare-mongering nonsense?” Farage told CNBC on Tuesday, adding that the FTSE 100 is up 3 percent today. “Can we just end this complete rubbish?” FTSE 100 is now unchanged from pre-Brexit as Osborne, Cameron and the fearmongers appear…
Photo: Splash News Over the past few weeks, Taylor Swift has been on a whirlwind global publicity tour celebrating her relationship with Tom Hiddleston. And, like any successful rebranding, the new romance has launched in tandem with a style makeover. The bleach-blonde, grungy, future-goth Taylor Swift of early 2016 has been replaced by…
Inc.‘s 11th annual 30 Under 30 list features the young founders taking on some of the world’s biggest challenges. Here, meet Imgur. Let’s start with a few examples of what has been snail-mailed to Imgur, the image-sharing community once described as the world’s greatest procrastination site. There’s $400 worth of Silly Putty. An acrylic-on-canvas hand-painted Imgur logo that, when illuminated with…
Because Viv and her fellow digital assistants are female, their usage adds to the store of cultural knowledge about who women are and what women do. Every time you say, “Viv, order me a turkey club” or “Viv, get me an Uber,” the association between “woman” and “assistant” is strengthened. According to Calvin Lai, a…
Photo Credit Paul Rogers Christopher Beemer, a 75-year-old Brooklynite, is impressed with how well his wife, Carol, maintains friendships with other women and wonders why this valuable benefit to health and longevity “doesn’t come so easily to men.” Among various studies linking friendships to well-being in one’s later years, the 2005 Australian Longitudinal Study of…
Photo Hillary Clinton greeted the crowd at an Ohio Democratic Party event in Cincinnati where she and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts spoke on Monday. Credit Hilary Swift for The New York Times Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump are deadlocked less than a month before the Democratic and Republican presidential conventions, according to a…
I watch Game of Thrones. There, I said it. I watch that dumb, awful show every single stupid Sunday night because I’ve invested so many hours of my life that—at this point—I can’t very well back out now. I generally watch the first few minutes focused on my meal (I don’t take my first bite…
Here’s a story that explains a bit about Kit Harington’s casting as Jon Snow: He was sporting a black eye, because he’d gotten into an altercation at McDonald’s late the night before. I now see Kit Harington in an entirely new light. As he explains in the video for W magazine (via People), he and…
After a string of both deaths and consumer complaints about the risk of its dressers tipping over and causing injury, Ikea is recalling 29 million dressers. The dressers—which Ikea advises customers to anchor to a wall to avoid harm—have led to a number of accidents, including the deaths of three toddlers in the past two…