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You Are What You Read 3

FYI: This is an old post from an old blog I kept in uni

  1. The Words Men and Women Use When They Write About Love
    • Modern Love celebrated its 13th birthday this week, and they released a bunch of great pieces in celebration. This one was my favourite – a visual deconstruction of the words used in submissions, mapped across gender and success.
  2. The Unlikely Odds of Making It Big
    • A little pessimistic, but very interesting – this is another data piece, investigating the number of bands who move up from playing small shows. Works best on desktop.
  3. The Louvre Abu Dhabi Lets In Light and, Finally, The Public
    • The New York Times does a daily “360” video, and this one is particularly great. Nothin’ much else to say tbh, I am in a mad rush.
  4. What We Talk About When We Talk About Australian Literature
    • Okay, hear me out. I know Austlit gets a bad wrap. I know. But it’s genuinely super interesting. I cleaned up my bookmarks bar this week and found this article from first year uni, so I’m sticking it here to inspire y’all to love Austlit.
  5. The Numbers Are In: Ageing is Inevitable
    • This one doesn’t have to be pessimistic if you embrace ageing. I’m keen to age. Fight me.

And of course, the video that rocked my week: Meryl Streep Meets Anna Wintour At Vogue (and they talk about women and Harvey Weinstein and journalism and truth in an age of ‘fake news’ and politics of distraction).