A swimmer resting in shallow, clear water, shot from above in black and white
@emilyabay_photographer w/ @kristinamendonca
WHAT WE FOUND
The Heart Aerospace X1 electric aircraft on a runway at sunset
The World’s Largest Electric Aircraft Is About to Take Its First Flight
The biggest electric plane ever built just got clearance to fly. Its wingspan runs 106 feet. It takes off from an airport in upstate New York. The passenger version comes later: 30 seats, a half-hour charge, short runways. See it fly. ›
A packed New York beach in the 1930s, sunbathers and striped umbrellas stretching to the horizon
The heat wave that made America legalize shorts
In the summer of 1936, America baked. Thousands of people died. Men still wore heavy layers in the heat, and some towns banned shorts outright. Two reporters were arrested for wearing them. By the end of that summer, the argument had shifted for good. How it happened. ›
MORE GOOD STUFF
A pack of runners strides along a country road while two men stand at the roadside watching
What Ethiopian running says about the limits of human ability
The runners who win everything do almost the opposite of what the science says. Here’s why. ›
A lit bakery display case filled with trays of doughnuts and pastries
Why Cops Stereotypically Like Doughnuts
It started with night shifts and nowhere else to go. The reason the joke exists is better than the joke. Here’s why. ›
TOP SHELF
How 300 black hole pairs found each other. Bugatti’s last great engine, ninety-nine cars and done. Why breakfast is always a chicken egg, never a goose.
ONE TO FOLLOW
Samuel Carr braced horizontally against a ceiling, above his Instagram profile card
@swholeanimal
From toughening his own skin to climbing buildings, a man testing the edges of what a human body will do, and building the equipment to get there.
LAST WORD
“If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river.”
— ANTHONY BOURDAIN