U2's Political, Unstoppable, Grating Cheerfulness.

• Songs of Experience, the band’s 14th album, offers unsolicited therapy to the nation.

Why So Many Adults Love Young-Adult Literature

• Over half of today’s YA readers are over the age of 18

Running for His Life

• One Marine learned that you can’t outpace your demons or suicidal thoughts. But it doesn’t hurt to try.

How To Build an Orchestra From Broken Instruments

• The collection of misfit horns and damaged violins being played to draw attention to shortages
•  in public funding for arts education

Looking for the Linguistic Smoking-Gun in a Trump Tweet

• Could the word pled really reveal who wrote Trump’s reaction to the Flynn news?

Billy Bush, Active Bystander

• His New York Times op-ed offers that rarest of things: an individual story of harassment that captures
•  the network effects of harassment.

What Made That Hypnosis Scene in Get Out So Terrifying

• The Atlantic looks back on the key cinematic moments of 2017, starting with Jordan Peele’s
•  subversive horror masterpiece.

The Desirability of Storytellers

• Among Filipino hunter-gatherers, storytelling is valued more than any other skill,
•  and the best storytellers have the most children.

The Fascinating Riddle of a Sourdough Starter

• Robin Sloan’s second novel about a baker’s secret weapon makes the case for
•  culture as a kind of humane technology.

The Never-Ending Story of the Tiger Woods Comeback

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• Despite years of setbacks and controversy, the embattled golfer can still capture the sports world’s 
• attention with one weekend of competence

Backlit Dust Lanes

• Backlit Dust Lanes. The giant galaxy NGC 7049 lies 100 million light years away from Earth in 
• the constellation of Indus, in the southern sky. It measures approximately 150,000 light-years
•  across, or about 1.5 times wider than the Milky Way. The dust lanes, which appear as a lacy web, 
• are dramatically backlit by the millions of stars in the halo of NGC 7049