1. Former Monthly blogger Kevin Drum lost his famous cat Inkblot last night. Send some karmic vibrations his way.
2. Classic Michael Pollan essay on opium.
3. Yet another Koch-funded study on global warming finds that…yep, it’s for real.
4. Kieran Healy trolls the Olympics fans. I wonder how long it took to make that graph.
5. Is modern pop music increasingly homogenous? Their song-choosing methodology seems a bit dubious. (Also, I wonder what the likes of Opeth would look like so analyzed.)
Any good reads out there I missed?
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