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Architektur in Baghdad, Football in Odessa, drei Punkte im Display und Asse in Vietnam.

Aufklärung oder Animationsarbeit? Zur Deformation des Journalismus via Carta

Friday Night Lights via Longform / Sports Illustrated

But from the 1920s through the ’80s, whatever Odessa had lacked, it had always had high school football. “I think it’s Odessa’s ticket to success,” said H. Warren Gardner, vice-president of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, in Odessa. “[Residents] can go anywhere in the state and brag about it. They get kicked around on the social fabric. They get kicked around on the terrain — it is flat and has no trees. But they sure play great football.”

Three little dots. via Medium

“Something’s happening at the airport. I love you guys”

A dream for Baghdad via Architectural Review

Arthur Erickson’s 40-year-old plan to revive Abu Nuwas to its former glory has yet to come to fruition

The Legend of the Vietnam War’s Mystery Fighter Ace via War is Boring

Col. Nguyen Tomb was the conflict’s most lethal dogfighter, if he even existed

YouTube corruption sinks even deeper into the gutter via GamesIndustry

Promoting illegal gambling could finally see governments on YouTube’s doorstep — and perhaps on Valve’s

This four-letter word is the Swedish key to happiness at work via Quartz

In Sweden, coffee is something to look forward to, a moment where everything else stops and you savor the moment,” she writes on Apartment Therapy. “In today’s modern world we crave a little bit of that; we want an excuse to slow down.”

Die Angst vor einem russischen Blitzkrieg via FAZ

Estland, Lettland und Litauen befinden sich im Alarmzustand: Russland kann die Nato im Baltikum auf verschiedene Weise herausfordern. Im Ernstfall sei der Kreml zum Äußersten bereit.

Fred Durst didn’t entirely deserve to become nü-metal’s whipping boy via AC Club

“Say in 2000, there were 35 million people who connected to this band,” he told Kerrang! in 2012. “Twelve years later, lots of those people have moved on. We were a moment in time, and it’s over.”