Weekend Reads v. 16.8.2024
Is anyone else struggling to stay motivated as the lazy days of summer press on? I want to lounge around all day like a kid on summer break! Never mind the fact that for many students, summer break is devastatingly over by now. May this little collection of interesting finds from around the web give you a bit of a break from whatever you find yourself doing this weekend.
I’m not sure why, but I found this article about a Finnish designer, kidney-shaped swimming pools, and skateboarding to be fascinating.
On Melrose Avenue, there is a luxury hotel for cats.
Ah, the magic a brick phone could perform in the 1980’s.
A journalist sent a group of kids off on a camping trip without any smartphones or adults. The results were thrilling:
“[B]y simply eliminating adults, even something as familiar as camping becomes thrilling,” Decca wrote. “What difference, I ask, would it have made had I taken their Tube, sat in another carriage on the t…
