Kenneth Chang, New Mars Map Lets You ‘See the Whole Planet at Once’:
A new global map of Mars offers a fresh perspective on the planet.
The map, released earlier this month, was pieced together from 3,000 pictures taken by the United Arab Emirates’ Hope spacecraft, and it shows the red planet in its true light.
Greg Jaffe and Patrick Marley, In a thriving Michigan county, a community goes to war with itself:
The eight new members of the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners had run for office promising to “thwart tyranny” in their lakeside Michigan community of 300,000 people. In this case the oppressive force they aimed to thwart was the county government they now ran…. The new commissioners… swore their oaths of office on family Bibles. And then the firings began. Gone was the lawyer who had represented Ottawa County for 40 years. Gone was the county administrator who oversaw a staff of 1,800. To run the health department, they voted to install a service manager from a local HVAC company who had gained prominence as a critic of mask mandates….
Derek Thompson, America Fails the Civilization Test:
Imagine I offered you a pill and told you that taking this mystery medication would have two effects. First, it would increase your disposable income by almost half. Second, it would double your odds of dying in the next 365 days. To be an average American is to fill a lifetime prescription of that medication and take the pill nightly….
There is no single meta-explanation for America’s death ratio that’s capacious enough to account for our higher rates of death from guns, drugs, cars, infant mortality, diet, exercise, and unequal access to care. I’ll try to offer one anyway—only to immediately contradict it.
Thomas Carrieri, Greatest Red Sox Players of All Time:
Researching this, I felt that it could have gone in any direction once you get past the number five spot. I tried to measure things such as performance during their era, championships, awards, and overall impact on baseball/Red Sox franchise.
[Ed.: Checks out.]