Best of 2021

The ultimate selection of more than 500 recommendations from this year.

Inside Europe's prisons in Africa

+ Uncertainty, Books, Fragile Masculinity (#373)

A city, ten times the size of NYC

+ Amazing Journeys, Future of Gender, Better Thinking (#372)

Supply and Demand, and Demand, and Demand

+ Transapocalypse, Meeting Overload, Ski madness (#371)

Ugh, not again 🦠

+ Try Harder, Flow, Zombie Traffic Lights (#370)

Welcome to the metaverse before it was uncool

1. The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will Build It The metaverse. On the one hand, 🙄, on the other: I do think it’s worth taking a closer look and trying to wrap one’s head around the idea and its implications. We need more people

guest curated

Special Delivery: Do I really deserve my success?

🙋‍♀️ Guest curated by Andrea Jansen, founder of AnyWorkingMom.

Has the climate movement failed?

+ Progress, Shortfall, Imagination (#368)

What's your climate shadow?

+ How many friends? Town of wood. Tiny humans. (#367)

And on the fifth day, they rested

+ COP26, Science vs. Omnicrisis, Shadow art (#366)

The Ship That Became a Bomb

+ Walking 21000 miles, Language quiz, How to write well (#365)

The crisis we need to fix before the climate crisis

+ Gazing billions of years into past, End-of-history illusion (#364)