The Saturday Selection, Vol. 67
The greatest stunt scenes, reading 3,599 books, and that 2001 pitch.
Every day, WITI’s group chats buzz with fresh links. As part of our Saturday send for paid readers, we round up 11 of the best.
It’s WITI, on the weekend.
Why are these interesting?
A Man Read 3,599 Books Over 60 Years. His Family Just Shared The Full List. (Open Culture)
Dan Pelzer began keeping it when he was stationed in Nepal as a Peace Corps volunteer, and kept it up long after he retired from his job as a social worker at an Ohio juvenile correctional facility.
It’s a Trap: Emperor Palpatine’s Poison Pill (Washington University)
“The emphasis of this work is to calibrate and simulate a model of the banking and financial systems within the Star Wars galaxy.”
The Pitch (Grantland)
In late October 2001, before Game 3 of the World Series, President George W. Bush strode to the mound in Yankee Stadium. He calls this the ‘most nervous’ moment of his presidency.
Bag of words, have mercy on us (Experimental History)
This guy is too good—I’ll be thinking about “BIG DEMON ON TOP OF ME” all weekend.
