Weekly Filet #140: Why We Love Lists, In a List (With a Twist). And more.
It's probably the quintessential article of these times of listomania. A reflection on why we love lists, in a list (with a twist, though). If you've wondered just how big this list-phenomenon has become, let me tell you this: Buzzfeed, this behemoth of listicles, has more readers than The Guardian and The New York Times – and has now, at least in the USA, even overtaken Wikipedia.
→ A List Of Reasons Why Our Brains Love Lists (The New Yorker)
A beautiful video obituary for Nelson Mandela, who passed yesterday at the age of 95.
→ The Life of Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013 (New York Times)
A christmas story brought to you by science: What elevators and facades do to your empathy and why we're sometimes nice even though no one is looking.
→ Why We're Sometimes Kind Without Reason (The Atlantic)
An incredibly long article that will tell you everything you didn't know you wanted to know about self-driving cars.
→ Auto Correct (The New Yorker)
A stunning interactive documentary about Fort McMurray, a freezing town in Canada transformed by the oil beneath it. «Where film marries video game», the NYT wrote about it.
→ Fort McMoney
Long travel ahead? Need some extra weekend reading? Try the first of a series of collections from the Weekly Filet archive: «Unputdownable Stories»