Noteworthy...

• In Beijing (link)

• Winter Olympics fashion (link)

• On fish sauce (link)

• The words of Johnny Cash (link)

• Why isn’t there a replication crisis in math? (link)

• Opting out of whiteness (link)

• When turtles fly (link)

• An argument for (raising and) eating meat (link)

• René Girard’s apocalypse is now (link)

• Megan McArdle on Facebook (link)

• In praise of Nicholas Cage (link)

• Ask for help face-to-face (link)

• Makers and making (link)

• Michelle Goldberg defends academic freedom (link)

• Why Denmark is done with Covid (link)

• On quantum mechanics (link)

• Whoopi Goldberg’s American Idea of Race (link)

• The rich people who’d rather live among lions than apartment dwellers (link)

• The censorious turn in American public opinion (link)

• The BBC is censoring its own archives (link)

• There’s cheap housing in Kansas (link)

• Why Germany behaves as it does (link)

• Why Anna Gát is quitting alcohol (link)

• World records in lightning strikes (link)

• Ross Douthat on the right, the left, and democracy (link)

• The sad economics of books (link)

• On space-elevators (link)

• Slippery stairs, a Japanese game show (link)

• Thinking through a tax on cryptocurrency in India (link)

• On tires for electric vehicles (link)

• Myths and counter myths (link)

• 40 animators get three seconds each (link)

• The 10 worst colleges for free speech (link)

• Starbucks as a bank (link)

• A billionaire and an inconvenient bridge (link)

• Where does money given to Black Lives Matter go? (link)

• A rationalist gives romantic advice (link)

• Ross Douthat (link) and Eric Levitz (link) debate the relationship between the American political parties and democracy

• The case for taxing digital advertising (link)