The Olympics Have a Young People Problem: Here’s What We’re Reading Today
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. How the Olympics lost millenials
“The International Olympic Committee and its American media partners have failed miserably to bring the Games to where young people live.”
2. Was the NSA hacked?
“The release on websites this week of what appears to be top-secret computer code that the National Security Agency has used to break into the networks of foreign governments and other espionage targets has caused deep concern inside American intelligence agencies, raising the question of whether America’s own elite operatives have been hacked and their methods revealed.”
+1: A new cyber cold war.
3. By reshuffling his campaign, Donald Trump doubles down on combative style
“The hire of Stephen K. Bannon, who runs a conservative site that often attacks top Republicans, also crushed longstanding hopes within the party that their nominee would tone down his rhetoric, a shift that now-sidelined campaign chairman Paul Manafort had promised for months.”
+1: “The effective merger of Donald Trump’s campaign for president and the obstreperous, resilient media outlet Breitbart makes more sense than anything else that has happened so far this crazy year.”
4. David’s ankles: How imperfections could bring down the world’s most perfect statue
“For several hundred years, the David leaned at an angle of several degrees. That doesn’t sound like much, but when you’re dealing with six tons bearing down every second of every minute of every day of every year of every century, it is plenty. Hairline fractures worked their way slowly through the stone. The right leg is significantly worse than the left. As the tilt of the statue increases, the stress will move higher and higher up that leg, until — at the moment of failure — it will break off just below the knee.”
5. Don’t try to be happy. We’re programmed to be dissatisfied
“Perpetual bliss would completely undermine our will to accomplish anything at all – that’s why perfect contentment has probably been evolved out of us.”
