Weekly Filet #214: Two bodies. One connection. A mystery, solved. And more.
1. The Wetsuitman (Dagbladet)
One of those rare stories that captivate you right from the start and never let you go. Last winter, two bodies washed ashore in Norway and the Netherlands. They were wearing identical wetsuits. The police never managed to identify them. This journalist did. A sad, true story, masterly reported and told.
2. Is A bigger than B? (Zan Armstrong)
Most maps make Greenland appear huge. It isn't. This is a great tool to compare actual sizes of countries, continents or oceans. Expect to be surprised.
3. A World Without Work (The Atlantic)
An excellent outline of what lies ahead. If you're interested in the topic, here are some good pieces on the future of work I've shared in previous Weekly Filets.
4. 11 days' wages to buy an asthma inhaler (Medicamentalia)
The same essential drugs, vastly different prices across the globe. A complex investigation on the affordability of medicines.
5. A week of a boyfriend/husband! (Dear Data)
A wonderful project I meant to share for months. Every week, Giorgia and Stefanie, two data visualisation experts, agree on a topic and then send each other a postcard with a data visualisation. The latest: What a week with their partner feels like. Love it!
Recommended by Jessica Binsch: Can Wikipedia Survive? (The New York Times)
Wikipedia is a remarkable repository of knowledge, but it's facing some tough challenges. It's struggling to keep around volunteer editors to write articles and to draw users reading on smartphones. Then there are internal power struggles to boot. Can this project, based on altruism and open source, change quickly enough to survive?
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.