Environment Nepal is banning single-use plastic on and around Mt. Everest David Pescovitz

photography Image Scrubber is a website that removes EXIF data and blurs faces in photos Mark Frauenfelder

futility closet In the 1930s, an Englishman decided to fly to Mount Everest and climb it alone Futility Closet

Comic Books Talking Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics with Visionary Comic Book Creator Tom Scioli Jeffery Klaehn

crowded places Look at this crowded line of people waiting for their turn to climb Mt Everest Mark Frauenfelder

YouTube videos with default camera filenames Rob Beschizza

hotbot or not This website is a Hot-or-Not for fake people Mark Frauenfelder

oceans Wealthy adventurer just became the first person to touch the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean David Pescovitz

travel The human and financial cost to summit Mount Everest is staggering Seamus Bellamy

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travel Overtourism: the plague affecting the world's most interesting places Andrea James

video Watch this climber's timelapse of Mount Everest at night Andrea James

futility closet In 1924, two British mountaineers disappeared trying to conquer Mount Everest. No one knows if they succeeded. Futility Closet

mountains Explore Mount Everest in 3D Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Six Wakes: a locked-room science fiction murder mystery, delightfully confounded by cloning and memory backups Cory Doctorow

libraries Far future of libraries David Pescovitz

web theory Chinese censorship: arbitrary rule changes are a form of powerful intermittent reinforcement Cory Doctorow

Science Anti-PUA: Fascinating profile of the data-driven "love science" pioneers Cory Doctorow

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