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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Treating the Unvaccinated</strong> - In Utah, and across the U.S., doctors are facing a wave of preventable COVID deaths—and trying to convince the hesitant that “it doesn’t have to be this way.” - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/treating-the-unvaccinated">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Assassination of Haiti’s President</strong> - Jovenel Moïse’s family deserves justice for his horrific killing. So do all of the Haitian families who suffered during his rule. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-assassination-of-haitis-president">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>“You’re Gonna Have a Fucking War”: Mark Milley’s Fight to Stop Trump from Striking Iran</strong> - Inside the extraordinary final-days conflict between the former President and his chairman of the Joint Chiefs. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/youre-gonna-have-a-fucking-war-mark-milleys-%20fight-to-stop-trump-from-striking-iran">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What the “Creator Economy” Promises—and What It Actually Does</strong> - A lattice of new platforms and tools purports to empower online creators. In reality, it’s turning digital content into gig work. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/what-the-creator-economy-promises-and-what-it-actually-does">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Vienna Is the New Havana Syndrome Hot Spot</strong> - Roughly two dozen possible new cases have been reported by U.S. spies and diplomats in the Austrian capital, more than in any other city except Havana itself. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/vienna-is-the-new-havana-syndrome-hotspot">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>How climate change fueled the devastating floods in Germany and northwest Europe</strong> -
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The destruction in the pedestrian area of Bad Muenstereifel, western Germany, after heavy rain hit parts of the country, causing widespread flooding, on July 16, 2021. | Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images
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“These are the harbingers of climate change that have now arrived in Germany.”
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After historic rainfall caused devastating flooding that killed <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/16/europe/germany-deaths-europe-severe-flooding-intl/index.html">more than 100 people</a> in northwestern Europe and left more than 1,000 missing, officials and scientists aren’t being coy about the main culprit: climate change.
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In response to footage of the unfolding disaster, German Minister of the Environment Svenja Schulze <a href="https://www.inforadio.de/programm/schema/sendungen/int/202107/16/590107.html">announced</a>, “These are the harbingers of climate change that have now arrived in Germany.” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called the flooding “a clear indication of climate change” and “something that really, really shows the urgency to act.”
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That European officials would draw a direct line between this extreme weather event and climate change may not be such a surprise, given that it happened just a day after the European Union <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57833807">announced</a> a sweeping set of proposals to address the climate emergency — proposals that are likely to face stiff opposition from many sectors, including less-affluent EU countries or those that rely heavily on fossil fuels.
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A catastrophic weather event hitting right after those proposals were announced certainly helps EU officials illustrate why such ambitious policies are needed.
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But it’s not just officials making the connection between the floods in Europe and a warming planet: Even scientists who in the past have been hesitant to explicitly link any one extreme weather event with climate change are clearly stating that climate change likely played a role here.
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“The rainfall we’ve experienced across Europe over the past few days is extreme weather whose intensity is being strengthened by climate change — and will continue to strengthen further with more warming,” Friederike Otto of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/is-climate-change-fueling-floods-in-germany/a-58282637">told German news outlet DW</a>.
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This flooding in Germany today is hard to wrap your head around. It really seems like the planet is trying to tell us something <a href="https://t.co/o5vCEpk8mk">pic.twitter.com/o5vCEpk8mk</a>
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— Read Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler</blockquote></div></li>
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1415860010714865667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2021</a>
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This new willingness to make these explicit connections is in part due to <a href="https://www.vox.com/21452781/zogg-fire-glass-wildfire-california-climate-change-hurricanes-
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attribution-2020-debate">advances in attribution science</a>. As Vox’s Umair Irfan has explained, “Researchers now <a href="https://slate.com/technology/2019/12/attribution-science-field-explosion-2010s-climate-change.html">have far more data</a> showing just how much climate change affects the frequency and likelihood of heat waves (and fires that follow them), <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/climate/ocean-heat-waves-blob.html">ocean heat waves</a>, droughts, and intense storms.”
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In other words, the more extreme weather events that happen, the more opportunities scientists have to learn about just how bad the impact of climate change really is.
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How climate change can produce extreme rainfall
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Germany’s National Meteorological Service said the two most impacted states, Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia, recorded between <a href="https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/summer-of-extremes-floods-heat-and-fire">4 and 6 inches</a> of rain in the 24 hours between July 14 and 15. According to CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller, that amounts to almost <a href="https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/deadly-flooding-in-europe-07-16-21/h_e96265d5bd34c7aa4b8bfb75169e2023">as much as the region usually sees in a month.</a>
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There are two main links between climate change and extreme rainfall events like the one in northwestern Europe. First, as <a href="https://www.ncl.ac.uk/engineering/staff/profile/hayleyfowler.html">Hayley Fowler</a>, professor of climate change impacts in the School of Engineering at Newcastle University, told me, a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture. “According to the <a href="https://www.atmos.washington.edu/~dennis/321/321_Lecture_28.pdf">Clausius-Clapeyron</a> equation, a one-degree rise in temperature has the potential to give you a 7 percent increase in the intensity of rainfall,” Fowler said.
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“The second point is that the [Earth’s] poles are increasing in temperature at two to three times the rate of the equator,” Fowler said. That, she said, “weakens the jet stream of the mid- latitudes, which is basically over Europe. In summer and autumn, the weakening of the jet stream has a knock-on effect causing slower-moving storms. So there’s a double whammy of increasing intensity, but the storm lingers longer too.”
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And that kind of double whammy can have devastating impacts on the land and infrastructure.
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“All this happened very fast, and I’ve never experienced a situation which developed that fast,” Tanja Krok, head of volunteering service in the German Red Cross in North Rhine-Westphalia, told me. She’s been working in the region for nearly 30 years. “In 2002, <a href="https://forms2.rms.com/rs/729-DJX-565/images/fl_2002_central_europe_flooding.pdf">we had flooding in the east of Germany</a>, but it impacted one region and developed slowly,” Krok said.
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The powerful flow of water has <a href="https://www.thelocal.de/20210716/german-floods-several-dead-after-landslide-near-cologne/">also caused landslides</a>, leaving some roads unusable if not completely washed away. “We’ve never had landslides before. We feel like our houses here are stable and fixed. It’s not often that you see houses collapse,” Krok said.
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Europe’s flood-warning system is also to blame
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In addition to climate change, experts have also pointed to communication failures in the <a href="https://www.efas.eu/en">European Flood Awareness System</a>.
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The German weather service <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/16/europe-flooding-deaths-germany-belgium/">issued warnings for the event</a> on Monday, three days before it actually happened. The hydrological services in Germany also issued a warning. Given the number of warnings in place, experts have said that the problem is not as much forecasting as communicating the severe impacts of flooding events to the greater population.
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“The issue is not that there wasn’t a warning in place. There was. We’ve got really good forecasting models now. So, both these events, and also the floods that we saw in New York and London earlier in the week, there were flood warnings in place for those. We knew that heavy rainfall was coming,” <a href="http://www.reading.ac.uk/geographyandenvironmentalscience/About/Staff/l-j-
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speight.aspx">Linda Speight</a>, a flood forecasting specialist at the University of Reading in England, told me.
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“Over 100 people should not have died in a flood in Germany. That shouldn’t happen in Western Europe in 2021,” she said.
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Speight, who works at the nexus of hydrology and meteorology to understand how the weather will cause flooding, thinks the high loss of life could be because people did not understand the seriousness of the warnings.
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“If you issue a weather warning which says there’s going to be 200 millimeters of rain tomorrow, that doesn’t mean anything. It doesn’t mean a lot to me — and that’s my area of specialism, so I doubt it means very much to the general public,” Speight said. “We need to change how we communicate warnings. For example, instead of saying, ‘There will be 200 millimeters of rain,’ we need to say, ‘There will be rapidly rising water levels, damage to properties, a risk to life.’”
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And as extreme weather events like these become more and more common, learning how to communicate the danger effectively will be even more critical.<strong> </strong>“Across the world, we need to get better prepared for these kinds of events,” Speight said. “Everybody can learn lessons from the flood in Germany and see how they can apply them to improve to be more prepared in their own countries.”
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But while early-warning systems can help reduce the loss of life, the ultimate answer is for humans to stop emitting carbon dioxide and other planet-warming greenhouse gases.
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“The climate is warming, and it will keep on warming as long as we emit CO2. Last time I checked, we’re still emitting huge amounts of CO2,” Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, a visiting professor at Oxford University who studies the impact of climate change on extreme weather events, said.
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US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says that misinformation — much of it on tech platforms — is a public health threat that has cost people’s lives and prolonged the Covid-19 pandemic.
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misinformation/index.html">first advisory</a> of his tenure in the Biden administration (he was also the surgeon general <a href="https://www.vox.com/2014/12/15/7397475/surgeon-general-vivek-murthy">under President Obama</a>) is about what we consume with our eyes and ears: misinformation.
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The advisory comes with a set of guidelines on how to “build a healthy information environment,” with recommendations for everyone from social media users up to the platforms themselves (also: health workers, researchers, and the media). Murthy also went on some of those very platforms to spread the message, including <a href="https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/1415628833970085889">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/USSurgeonGeneral/posts/2138391522967968">Facebook</a>.
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“Today, we live in a world where misinformation poses an imminent and insidious threat to our nation’s health,” Murthy said in a press conference, adding that “modern technology companies” have allowed misinformation and disinformation to spread across their platforms “with little accountability.”
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The advisory isn’t a set of orders that must be followed by these companies, but the increased scrutiny and attention does put pressure on them to more aggressively combat the falsehoods spreading on their platforms.
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), a frequent Big Tech critic, has already pushed back against the advisory, <a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-hammers-facebook-
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twitter-collusion-biden-administration-censor-speech">accusing Facebook and Twitter</a> of colluding with the Biden administration to censor speech. Press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that the White House has been in contact with those platforms and flags problematic content to them, which Hawley interpreted to mean that the platforms have “functionally become arms of the federal government.”
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The health advisory comes as Covid-19 vaccination rates in the United States are dropping, cases are <a href="https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-
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covid19/22576904/us-new-covid-cases-rising-again-delta-variant">picking back up</a>, and the fast-spreading delta variant <a href="https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/22576904/us-new-covid-cases-rising-again-delta-variant">takes hold</a>. The vast majority of Covid-related hospitalizations and deaths have been for people who aren’t vaccinated, despite the widespread availability of vaccines in the US. And with <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22330018/covid-
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vaccine-hesitancy-misinformation-carnegie-mellon-facebook-survey">some people</a> choosing not to get vaccinated because they believe misinformation about the vaccines, the Biden administration has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/14/politics/white-house-covid-disinformation-fight/index.html">reportedly decided</a> it’s time to fight back.
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Coronavirus misinformation <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/trumps-lies-about-coronavirus/608647/">doesn’t only</a> <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/162971/fox-news-vaccine-hesitancy-tucker-carlson-ingraham">appear</a> on social media. But social media gives it a stage and reach that offline platforms don’t have, and this has been a <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/3/8/17085928/fake-news-study-mit-science">concern</a> <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/10/5/16410912/illusory-truth-fake-news-las-vegas-google-facebook">for years</a>. Mis- or disinformation <a href="https://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/11/16/13659840/facebook-fake-news-
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chart">potentially influenced</a> the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, increased <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/21534345/polarization-election-social-media-filter-bubble">political polarization</a>, contributed to the <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/21499485/qanon-facebook-twitter-bans-republican-politics">rise of the QAnon conspiracy theory</a>, played a role in the <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-
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perfect/2019/2/7/18214351/facebook-myanmar-rohingya-muslims">ethnic cleansing</a> of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, and, now, has helped to prolong the pandemic.
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As researcher Carl T. Bergstrom, co-author of “<a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/118/27/e2025764118">Stewardship of global collective behavior</a>,” a paper that calls for more research into social media’s impact on society, <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/6/26/22550981/carl-bergstrom-joe-bak-coleman-biologists-ecologists-social-media-
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risk-humanity-research-academics">told Recode’s Shirin Ghaffary</a>, “social media in particular — as well as a broader range of internet technologies, including algorithmically driven search and click-based advertising — have changed the way that people get information and form opinions about the world. And they seem to have done so in a manner that makes people particularly vulnerable to the spread of misinformation and disinformation.”
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hoaxes-facebook-social-media-tiktok-twitter-wechat">attempts</a> to stop the spread of false information, including removing posts and videos and banning accounts that spread it, as well as appending fact-checks or links to trusted information on posts and videos that might be misleading. As it became more likely that there would soon be a Covid vaccine at the end of 2020, various platforms <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/21527013/covid-19-vaccine-pfizer-
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safety-social-media-misinformation">were proactive</a> in preparing for the vaccine misinformation that would (and did) inevitably follow. This came after years of these companies doing <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22319681/vaccine-
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misinformation-facebook-instagram-spreading">very little</a> to stop the spread of misinformation about other vaccines, and despite many warnings from experts about the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6657116/">potential harm to public health</a> done by hosting anti- vaccine content and communities.
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“We agree with the Surgeon General — tackling health misinformation takes a whole-of-society approach,” a Twitter spokesperson told Recode in a statement. “We’ll continue to take enforcement action on content that violates our <a href="https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/medical-
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misinformation-policy">COVID-19 misleading information policy</a> and improve and expand our efforts to elevate credible, reliable health information — now, amid the COVID-19 pandemic — and as we collectively navigate the public health challenges to come.”
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YouTube spokesperson Elena Hernandez told Recode that the platform “removes content in accordance with our <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785">COVID-19 misinformation policies</a>, which we keep current based on guidance from local health authorities. We also demote borderline videos and prominently surface authoritative content for COVID-19-related search results, recommendations, and context panels.”
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And Kevin McAlister, of Facebook, told Recode that the company has “partnered with government experts, health authorities, and researchers to take aggressive action against misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines to protect public health,” removing millions of pieces of Covid-19 misinformation while trying to guide users to trusted sources about the virus and vaccines.
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inauguration">don’t go far enough</a> — including, it seems, the surgeon general.
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<li><strong>The new Anthony Bourdain doc is ethically thorny but worth watching</strong> -
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Roadrunner grapples with the beloved chef’s legacy.
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Biographical documentaries are a dime a dozen, but judging by how many achieve only some level of okay-ness, making a good one must be extraordinarily hard. Sometimes that’s because the subject is still alive and inevitably exerting some control over what makes the final cut. More often, though, it’s because such films succumb to the cradle-to-grave impulse, the need to cover everything about their central figures from childhood onward, as if the goal of a biographical film is to recreate the Wikipedia entry, but with video. They’re mostly for the fans or the curious neophytes.
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But a good biographical doc is more than a multimedia encyclopedia entry. It’s a work of cultural criticism, not simply laying out the shape of a life but also reminding us why the person who lived it was important enough to merit a whole movie. It tells us what an individual’s legacy <em>means</em>, as a cultural artifact.
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<em>Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain </em>does this beautifully.
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Morgan Neville — whose acclaimed 2018 film about Fred Rogers, <a href="https://www.vox.com/summer-
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movies/2018/6/7/17433834/mister-fred-rogers-neighborhood-wont-you-be-my-neighbor-review"><em>Won’t You Be My Neighbor?</em></a>, is also <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-oscar-nominees-
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documentary-20190122-story.html">one of<strong> </strong>the highest-grossing documentaries</a> of all time — seems to have a knack for structuring biographical films so they transmit cultural import alongside the simple facts of a person’s existence. <em>Won’t You Be My Neighbor?</em> was not just a way to learn about Mr. Rogers; it was a way to learn about ourselves, and viewers’ rapturous, emotional response to the film bore that out. We were understanding our love of Mr. Rogers better as we watched, and thus, understanding ourselves.
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<em>Roadrunner</em> does something similar, albeit with a very different figure at its center: Anthony Bourdain, the chef, writer, and travel documentarian who died by suicide in 2018. From the film, we learn next to nothing about Bourdain’s childhood, family, or youthful interests, how he learned to cook or why. And that’s great. Instead, he emerges fully formed in the film as a chef at Manhattan’s Les Halles restaurant in the 1990s, a lanky, handsome guy with an earring and a lot of energy.
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From there, <em>Roadrunner</em> — which at times pulses with energy that feels borrowed from a late-’90s music video on MTV, in a good way — straps us onto the back seat of the motorbike that was Bourdain’s career, starting with the bombshell publication of <em>Kitchen Confidential</em> in 2000, rocketing through his awkward early TV years and into the more confident ones, and ending with his devastating death.
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Bourdain isn’t here to comment on his own life, but the filmmakers dug up a lot of footage from his shows and TV interview appearances, plus B-roll and videos shot by family and friends, which makes it feel as though Bourdain was intimately involved with the movie anyway. The screen is full of him, looking out onto a lush landscape from a plane or firing snark at a producer or sitting on the ground in a family’s home or downing the beating heart of a cobra in a restaurant. We hear from many of his friends, like chefs David Chang and Éric Ripert and artist David Choe, and from the crew that followed him all over the world. We see him with his first wife, Nancy Putkoski; and then his second wife, Ottavia Busia, mother of their daughter Ariane; and finally with Asia Argento, his final girlfriend, with whom he split shortly before his death.
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My eyebrow raised a few times throughout the film, and as I thought about it afterward. I am bothered by the section that involves Argento — it veers disturbingly close to outright blaming her for Bourdain’s death. Most likely, it’s his friends’ attempt to find a cause for his death, but that’s an ill-advised way to grapple with death by suicide. Bafflingly, <a href="https://twitter.com/ezwrites/status/1415434579893161989?s=20">Neville has said he didn’t ask Argento to participate</a> in the film, which would have been a lot more fair to her, and the decision to exclude her without informing viewers raises some acute ethical questions.
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documentary?utm_campaign=input&utm_content=1626368786&utm_medium=owned&utm_source=twitter">used an AI model to create audio</a> of Bourdain “speaking” some unspecified lines (<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-
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gastronomy/the-haunting-afterlife-of-anthony-bourdain">with his estate’s permission</a>) that Bourdain had in reality only written down. At best, that was unnecessary, and should have been handled differently or disclosed to audiences. A degree of manipulating reality is inherent in the act of making a film, but the choice is worthy of the <a href="https://variety.com/2021/artisans/news/anthony-bourdain-fake-voice-roadrunner-documentary-
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backlash-1235020878/">serious pushback</a> it’s been receiving.
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But I think, on balance, the movie is still worth watching. <em>Roadrunner</em> quite successfully gives us all the reasons to admire and love Bourdain’s work, his insatiable curiosity, and his passion for every culture on the globe and desire to share the world with everyone.
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And it also works hard to avoid a dangerous conclusion. <em>Roadrunner</em> makes a strong case for an artist who died far too soon. But it doesn’t want us to think of him as a martyr, or of his death by suicide as some proof of noble genius. It won’t romanticize the end of his life (though it may try too hard to find the reasons it happened).
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Instead, his friends break down in angry tears, frustrated with him for leaving them, upset that his work was cut short by his death and the mental illness that drove him to it. Processing that trauma doesn’t come easy, and <em>Roadrunner</em> brings it to the surface.
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So, it’s a gutting film. It’s unsettling in spots. It doesn’t offer answers, or at least not answers that make things better. The end of Bourdain’s life doesn’t have a single meaning, a neat takeaway. The messiness of existence is the point.
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And that, <em>Roadrunner</em> suggests, is where Bourdain’s cultural significance lies. He loved food, loved people, loved travel and adventure. He could be brusque and loving, tender and tough, brilliant and baffling. He was a person worth making a biographical documentary about. In resisting the urge to paint its subject as a saint, <em>Roadrunner</em> gives us something better: a human.
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Olivier Giroud joins AC Milan, thanks Chelsea for ‘special moments’</strong> - Milan did not specify the transfer fee or the length of the contract but British media reported that the club would pay around €1 million ($1.2 million) for the player</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>SL vs Ind ODI series | Both teams will start evenly, reckons new Sri Lankan captain Shanaka</strong> - India have come to Sri Lanka with a squad comprising six uncapped players.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Rookie Roster: India’s white-ball newbies start Lankan audition for vacant T20 WC slots</strong> - Dravid had recently made it clear that it will be difficult to provide game time to all the available payers</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>First case of COVID-19 in Tokyo Olympic Village: organisers</strong> - The person, whom organisers refused to identify, has been removed from the Village where thousands of athletes and officials will reside during the Games.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Resurgent Pakistan beats England by 31 runs in first T20</strong> - Morgan won the toss and chose to bowl first but the move backfired as Pakistan capitalised on the short boundaries, smashing 20 fours and 12 sixes to post 232-6 — their highest total in T20 internationals</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>G. Aravindan’s Kummatty to be restored to original glory</strong> - It will have its world restoration premiere at the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival late July</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Two Mar Thoma Metropolitans to be installed today</strong> - An episcopal synod of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church has decided to appoint two senior bishops as Suffragan Metropolitans. An official statemen</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>CPWD to complete 100 oxygen plants soon</strong> - The plant would carry stickers declaring that it is a “PSA plant under PM CARES”, according to the template shared with the project team.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Germany floods: Where are the worst-hit areas?</strong> - Maps, images and graphics showing the heavy rainfall and flooding that has caused widespread damage.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Finger wrap could one day let you power up wearables while you sleep</strong> - This thin, flexible strip generates small amounts of electricity from finger sweat. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1780902">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Disable the Windows print spooler to prevent hacks, Microsoft tells customers</strong> - The third serious Windows print flaw in 5 weeks prompts new Microsoft warning. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1781007">link</a></p></li>
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Alzheimers I would commit suicide rather than burdening you with me"
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