Astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery recorded this rarely seen phenomenon of the full Moon partially obscured by the atmosphere of Earth. Photo Credit: NASA
How a Bunch of Government Space Geeks at NASA Won the Internet
By Adam Epstein
Quartz
“Federal government” and “being good at the Internet” aren’t normally phrases found together in the same sentence. America’s bloated bureaucracy conjures images of a digital strategy that is stuck in the late 1990s or early 2000s — there doesn’t seem to be anything “viral” about it. NASA, it turns out, has managed to prove all those assumptions wrong.
The Myth of the Ethical Shopper
By Michael Hobbes
Huffington Post
When consumer boycotts took off in the 1990s, there was a real sense of change. A number of companies — mostly big name brands — even formalized their workforces, moving away from the sweatshop model and providing a space for workers up to snuff with health and safety regulations. Today, there’s no dearth of awareness campaigns, but ethical shopping may have become harder than ever. And chances are it’s partly our own fault.
The Wetsuitman
By Anders Fjellberg
Dagbladet
Two bodies were found in Norway and the Netherlands last winter, both donning identity wetsuits. There was no indication of who they were. Fjellberg delves into this mysterious case in this longform, interactive article that reads more like a mystery than a work of nonfiction.
The Missing History of Ravensbrück, The Nazi Concentration Camp for Women
By Sarah Helm
Longreads
Excerpted from Helm’s book Ravensbrück, this piece looks at the Nazi’s long forgotten women-only concentration camp. Located some fifty miles north of Berlin, the camp has been missing from World War II histories for decades, partly due historians’ apathy toward women’s histories.
It’s a Damn Good Deal
By Jeffrey Lewis
Foreign Policy
Whatever your opinion is of the Iran deal — good, bad or even apathetic — Lewis provides a convincing argument for why the deal was necessary and what good will come from it.
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