July 21, 2022
Blots on a field
A neuroscience image sleuth finds signs of fabrication in scores of Alzheimer’s articles, threatening a reigning theory of the disease
Keeping It Twee
Asteroid City plot details revealed ! The cast list is exactly who you'd expect—save one—plus Tom Hanks and Steve Carrell. Details have dribbled out over the last year: the name, the set, the cast, and leaked photos.
Protests are different now.
Surely, this big protest wave [in 2003 against the Iraq War] — possibly the largest in history — would help stop the relentless march toward this ill-advised war. We all know how that went. I Was Wrong About Why Protests Work (NYT) [more inside]
So, They're Trying This Again
A trailer just dropped for the new "Dungeons and Dragons" movie. I'm not sure how this is going to turn out, but at least there's an owlbear.
Pig butchering
"U.S. state and federal investigators are being inundated with reports from people who’ve lost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in connection with a complex investment scam known as 'pig butchering.' ... As documented in a series of investigative reports published over the past year across Asia, the people creating these phony dating profiles are largely men and women from China and neighboring countries who have been kidnapped and trafficked to places like Cambodia, where they are forced to scam complete strangers over the Internet — day after day." [more inside]
Ukraine War Month Five, Putin is 'Entirely Too Healthy'
The last few days in Ukraine-Russia news includes Ukraine requesting modern fighter planes, the EU tightening sanctions on Russia, and Russia making plans to annex southern regions of Ukraine. [more inside]
The 50 Greatest Fictional Deaths of All Time
We’ve assembled the 50 greatest fictional deaths of all time—the most moving, most funny, most shocking, most influential scenes from books, movies, TV, theater, video games, and more. Slate brings us a list from Medea to Scrappy-Doo, with comments from some of the creators (not Euripides). Spoilers, of course.
Thunder.
“Have you ever wondered what happens to the things you leave behind?”
Found in a Library Book is an online collection of scanned items that people have left in library books in Oakland, California, including art, notes, lists and stuff by kids. [via Annie Rauwerda]
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