Friday Links on Thursday!
Posting Friday Links early on Thanksgiving, as always, for those of you who are somewhere you'd rather not be and need a distraction.
Paint nerd alert: Why synthetic emerald-green pigments degrade over time.
A terrific profile: ‘The English person with a Chinese stomach’: how Fuchsia Dunlop became a Sichuan food hero.
A thoughtful essay: Not in our name: The gravest of all decisions, to go to war, happens without the consent of the people. This is a great flaw in democracy.
I have a favorite, too: Ross Gay: Have I Even Told You Yet About the Courts I’ve Loved? On the Unlikely Tenderness and Care of a Good Pick-Up Basketball Game.
Fantastic: The Gypsy Life of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Incredible and shameful: George Bell Served 24 Years in Prison for a Crime He Didn’t Commit. Now He’s Learning to Live Again.
I never thought I'd see this: ‘Bull riding is a drug’: rodeo embraces its sports science era – in pictures.
From Wally, and the picture alone makes it worthwhile: Paris court blocks auction of earliest-known calculator. Genuinely horrific in regards to TikTok: The words you can't say on the internet. All worthy (although Promise Mascot Agency should have won an award as well): All the Golden Joystick Awards 2025 winners revealed. This will keep you busy for a while: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025. Not a recent story, but staggering: The Hacker King: As a teenager, Karim Baratov made millions breaking into email accounts. When a Russian spy asked him for help with a massive Yahoo hack, he was flattered. He didn’t realize the FBI was watching his every move
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