Friday Links!
An utterly fascinating read leading off the week: Beans use an immune receptor to call in airstrikes on caterpillars.
A short video on how tough it is to make it as a professional athlete, and he was honestly a very weak player in the NBA (but had a nice career overseas): How I made it to the NBA - Joe Alexander.
Fabulous: The Grate Cheese Robbery: How organized crime fell in love with cheese.
A terrific read: The Cartoonist Who Mocked the Madness of Modernism.
Both tremendous and beautiful: ‘They take you out of life, out of time’: a journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings.
From Wallace, and it's excellent: Stephen Colbert Didn't Get Cancelled - Mass Culture Did: From 55 million to 6.7 million viewers in 34 years — and what that tells us about the end of America's shared mass-media, mass-consumer culture. Another in a series of food tours in Japan: JAPAN - Spring 2026: AKITA. This is going to be hard to control: YouTube Is Crawling with Pirated Audiobooks Made Using A.I..
From D.G.F., a thoughtful and provocative essay: The liberal establishment doesn't take repression seriously: What Democratic support for institutions like ICE means in this moment..
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