The Information Age is also the age of information overload. Here’s what one person learned about the human brain after cleansing himself of screens.

via What Happens When You Go Offline — Longreads

Marcia Aldrich on why cell phones, so thin and light and little, don’t seem fitting for momentous calls, for life and death communications, or for last words.

via Phone Call in The Age of Coronavirus — Longreads

Shaheen Pasha explores how the trauma of a loved one’s incarceration unravels her carefully planned-out existence, and sets her on a new, unexpected path to find meaning in the meaningless.

via Following the North Star — Longreads

A fascinating look at so-called obscenity, then and now.

via The Function and Language of Ancient Sexual Texts — Longreads

It has been a dozen days since the shocking death of the Los Angeles Lakers star. How do we talk about Kobe and his legacy on and off the court?

via “The Ugliness of Greatness”: A Kobe Bryant Reading List — Longreads

“Bangkok” Bangkok, Thailand. November 2019. (12 photos) This is Part 1 of my posts about Thailand, and Part 2 of my posts about my near month-long visit to Myanmar, Thailand and Singapore in November 2019.

via Bangkok, Oriental Setting — Etcetera Etcetera Etcetera

“Ten Navy sailors were killed and scores more were injured. It was the Navy’s worst accident at sea in 40 years.” And it was all avoidable.

via On Course for Certain Disaster — Longreads