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 Why do people want to climb Mount Everest? CNN · Kara Nelson Life-threatening storms and avalanches are frequent and bodies are left on the mountain. What drives people to scale the world’s highest peak?  |
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 Was California’s wine revolution just a mirage? Punch · John McCarroll A chorus of winemakers say that the economics of making wine in the state have turned the promise of the “New California” into a cautionary tale.  You can’t ripen a pineapple, no matter what everyone says The Kitchn · Andrea Rivera Wawrzyn Here’s why, and how to save a rock-hard fruit.  In an unfocused world, ‘listening bars’ demand our complete attention montecristomagazine.com · Michael Harris “Here … for a few precious hours, the noise of our online world is vanquished, and a signal, a voice, a line, a note is given its full due.”  Taylor Swift’s ‘Tortured Poets’ is breaking records flipboard.com · Billboard It started with “Spotify’s most pre-saved countdown” and hasn’t stopped. /https%3A%2F%2Ftf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ffiler_public%2F34%2Fad%2F34adbabe-0ce4-42af-a006-164ba8e52247%2Fimg_9227.jpg?w=1140&ssl=1) The surprising new sculpture that rethinks who we put on a pedestal Smithsonian Magazine · Kelyn Soong Korean artist Do Ho Suh’s “Public Figures” makes a grand arrival outside the National Museum of Asian Art  Is calligraphy art? thecollector.com · Anastasiia S. Kirpalov Here’s a deep dive into the history of the ancient art of writing. |
