Mondays might not be your favorite day of the week, but the good news is that we’re all in this together ladies and gentlemen. As purveyors of prime Grade A web content, the SolidSmack crew has done some of the heavy-lifting to make sure you get your Mondays started on the right track.
Welcome to The Monday List.
Each Monday, we’ll link you up with some of the most insightful, informative, and socially-relevant stories to keep tabbed, bookmarked, reading listed, pocketed, or what have you. Be sure to check in each Monday morning for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack.
What We’re Reading This Week:
The Great A.I. Awakening
How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself.
Standing Out in the Video Livestreaming Gold Rush
Everybody must get streamed.
Running’s Greatest Minds on Nike’s Two-Hour Marathon Project
Earlier this week, the Portland brand announced a wildly ambitious plan to break the two-hour marathon barrier by next spring. We asked three experts to weigh in on the stunt and the outcry it has provoked.
Gennady Podolsky is the Travel Agent for Getting Anywhere
Gennady Podolsky manages a travel agency, but calls himself a “creative director.” After all, he isn’t selling Cancun cruises. He gets people where they need to be, when they need to be there, no matter the circumstances.
The story behind The New York Times’ largest and most ambitious crossword puzzle
A 50×50, 738-clue monstrosity called the Super Mega
“Rogue One”: Is It Time to Abandon the “Star Wars” Franchise?
The director of “Rogue One,” Gareth Edwards, has stepped into a mythopoetic stew so half-baked and overcooked, a morass of pre-instantly overanalyzed implications of such shuddering impact to the series’ fundamentalists, that he lumbers through, seemingly stunned or constrained or cautious to the vanishing point of passivity, and lets neither the characters nor the formidable cast of actors nor even the special effects, of which he has previously proved himself to be a master, come anywhere close to life.
