Selections from my Virtual Library: August 2014

Lots of heavier topics this month, but it spurred lots of thinking! If you only have time to read some and not all, hit up the italicized ones.

The Atlantic

Can The Female Condom Go Mainstream?
The Future of Iced Coffee
The Secret to a Tattoo's Permanence: The Immune System
What Will a Liberal Arts Education Look Like in 50 Years?
How to Talk About Climate Change So People Will Listen
Meghalaya: The Wettest Place on Earth
Who Watches America's Executions?
The Elusiveness of Stolen Art

NPR

The Good Listener: Why Do Band Photos Look Like That, Anyway?
Turnitin And The Debate Over Anti-Plagiarism Software
Hip-Hop In Print: Brooklyn Publisher Looks To 'Reverse Gentrify' Literature

The New Yorker

What Makes a Family of Artists
Selfie
The Pleasure of Reading to Impress Yourself

Medium

Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future
Slaying The Protein Myth
The Aftershocks

BBC

Colombian anti-groping squad goes to work
US schools to have non-white majority

McSweeney's

A Post Gender Normative Man Tries To Pick Up a Woman At A Bar
Classic Movie Changed Not To Be Sexist