Summer Friday Link Dump Edition
On bees, returns, and noise.
Noah here. We are taking another Summer Friday and sending off the week with a collection of links. Leave your own favorites in the comments.
Hope you enjoy and have a great weekend.
Almost definitely a WITI in this one: The Beekeepers Who Don’t Want You to Buy More Bees. This bit about “hivewashing” might have been my favorite: “Hives are now getting installed at what beekeeping association leaders say is a record pace. As with the B&B Hotel, they are typically motivated by an impulse to do something positive for the environment that is also highly visible - an apiary form of greenwashing. (Hivewashing?)” (NRB)
For all the hype about the New Yorker Elon profile, I found this recent piece a whole lot more interesting: What Happens to All the Stuff We Return? (NRB)
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I’m in Italy this week and these “smokeless” cigarettes are everywhere: Smokeless cigarettes not as harmless as claimed, study says (NRB)
WITI reader Tom Vanderbilt shared this recent piece he wrote after my Ebike Edition last week: Cultivating a Community Through Soccer (NRB)
File under: it’s cheap for companies to talk about wellness. Employers Cut Off Access to Weight-Loss Drugs for Workers (NRB)
“Relentless F*cking Noise”: Lou Reed on Making an Unlistenable Album (NRB)
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Noah (NRB) & Colin (CJN)
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