Weekly Filet #86: Going For A Beer. And more.
This week's top recommendation
It all starts with a beer or two and in the long run, we're all dead. A beautiful, humorous short story by Robert Coover. Just the right thing to head into the weekend with a smile.
→ Going For A Beer (The New Yorker)
Further recommendations
A great interactive feature on the future of the world's megacities. By 2025, there will be 29 in the developing world alone.
→ The Rise of the Megacities (The Guardian)
The philosophy behind Tibetan sky burial is to give a dead body back to nature, let predator birds feed from it. A highly fascinating series of images (warning: fairly explicit images among them).
→ Sky Burial (Imgur)
Last week, we had the troubling story of an accidental suicide, now I stumble upon this story of a man who killed his wife during a nightmare. Will neuroscience make us more (yes, more) responsible for what we do?
→ Was It Really Me? (Aeon Magazine)
We all know the suffering: How to deal with the fact that you can't read, see, watch, listen to everything that could be interesting?
→ The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything (NPR)