Weekly Filet #213: Dance like everybody's watching. And more.
1. city.ballet (AOL Originals)
Hope and anxiety, sweat and devotion, one single chance to make it: A wonderful documentary about the New York City Ballet and the many young dancers hoping to make the cut. Utterly beautiful, and yet a little discomforting to watch.
2. The Money Trails (The Migrants Files)
It's currently one of the most ambitious – and most important – journalistic projects: The Migrants Files. Its latest investigation looks at the money that is spent on keeping migrants from entering Europe – and the companies that profit.
3. Will your self-driving car be programmed to kill you if it means saving more strangers? (Science Daily)
The advent of autonomous cars means we will finally need to answer a classic philosophical thought experiment for real.
4. How to design a metaphor (Aeon Magazine)
A metaphor designer on how to come up with and test metaphors that will work.
5. Jon Stewart on Charleston South Carolina Shooting (The Daily Show)
White man murders nine black people. And yet, and yet.
Recommended by Jessica Binsch: Pope Francis—Digital media is making us stupid, selfish, and isolated (Quartz)
Many of us love sharing our experiences, one picture, 140 characters, one «like» at a time. That's both a blessing and a curse, thinks the Pope (who knows a bit about those things). He worries that we are constantly communicating with others - but are missing «the complexity of their personal experience». Maybe we need more breaks to explore big ideas?
June guest curator: Jessica Binsch is a journalist based in Berlin. She works for the German news agency DPA and if you care about how the internet transforms our lives (guess what: I think you should) – she's someone you should be following. Good thing she's on Twitter, so go follow Jessica.