Since our previous status report, nearly three months ago, a lot has happened. On the domestic front, I am happy to say that I have felt improvement at work. I guess I found better ways to deal with all the irritant “mammoths” (a plethora of usual absurdities, incompetence, and running arounds that made me crazy and drained my energy). However, following the “heat episode” I mentioned earlier, I complained to the union. The union director for the borough came to the workplace and said he could not do anything. A few weeks later he submitted his report to the employers. His conclusion? The section head and the three employees who left early because the excessive heat made them sick … should have stayed at work to show solidarity with their colleagues! Who needs a heartless employer when you have a union of traitors and assholes like that! A real nest of collusion. Madness!

As I keep saying, library work can be quite physical and exhausting (who knew!). I remember someone saying that, at my age, “if you don’t feel pain somewhere when you get up in the morning, it means that you’re dead!” Well, I can say that I feel quite alive. Pain is good. It certainly makes me feel I am there.

What has probably helped is that it has been a very good time for writing. My mind felt clear, I’ve been producing a lot, and everything was doing so well that I could only fear that it would all crash down soon. Maybe it’s the Algernon’s syndrome  or, to paraphrase Nelligan, “I am happy, so happy, that I am afraid to burst into tears!” Hopefully not… It is true that I wrote a lot, mostly about movies (Winchester, The Guernsay Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Isle of Dogs, Ready Player One, Mary and the Witch’s Flower, Ex-Libris: The New York Public Library), particularly with the coverage of the World Film Festival (list of Japanese films, red carpet, Samurai’s Promise, Zone Out, Life in overtime, Think again, Junpei, The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan, wrap-up). After a while I had enough of movies and it felt like I should go back to comment on books and manga—which I did with The Ghost in the Shell 1.5: [Human Error Processer], Un siècle d’Animation Japonaise, Souvenirs d’Emanon, Le Guide du Mauvais Père 4 and The Little Broomstick. I also wrote a suggestion list of adult manga. With all this the blog’s stats have soared!

I kept busy. I took walks in the park or visited the museum, a farm fair or the Italian week. I also reflected on the electoral conundrum (before accomplishing my citizen’s duty —in anticipation— with disappointing results), against Facebook, about writing (1, 2, 3) and about reading (or not). 

Eventually, by mid-September, everything started to slow down again and I wrote less. So many things to do. I feel that I cannot accomplish anything. What I need is more time! Time… Time is the enemy. We fight it to do more. We fight it hoping not to get old too fast and still have a little time left to do more. I wrote a haiku.

I started writing in a new notebook. The thirty-fifth. Some could be surprised that, in this digital age, one would still use a paper notebook. However, I find this physical form strangely reassuring. After all, electronic information can be so vulnerable. The good old notebook doesn’t need any batteries and fears only fire and water. Its sequential way of working—to write, read (or re-read)—is so much more appropriate for the human brain capacity. It is easier to get an overview of the text, to positioned yourself in the three dimensions of the writing. It’s more confortable for me. Of course, most of the time, it is just a glorified to-do or grocery list, but it serves as backup for my capricious memory. That way, in a few scribbles, I can preserves ideas that would otherwise be too fleeting to be useful. It is also the witness of my daily life.

I’ve watched a few interesting TV series. First, The Miniaturist mini-series. It is good and yet disappointing. It looks similar to the Girl with a Pearl Earring. It’s another show about the powerlessness of women in the end of the Middle Age (or early Enlightment). It concludes with an open-ending. “I can do this”, she says… I also binge-watched the first season of the Jack Ryan TV series on Amazon Prime (a thriller similar to 24), the new seasons of Walking Dead, Doctor Who and also the very good Press TV series. 

Apple has announced new products (iPhone and watch) and released new operating systems. How come, when you do a software upgrade, you always loose something you like? Why is removing something cool and useful is considered an upgrade? New operating systems always offer a basket of frustration…

I am trying to improve my reading habits by reading more, more often and better literature than just manga. I started with The Little Broomstick by Mary Stewart and I am currently reading the first novel of the Poldark series by Winston Graham. But it is hard. In the olden days, I could read about sixty pages in an hour. Now, I read only a few hours per week, before going to bed, and barely thirty pages per hour. After two or three days of starting a new book, I am barely at page fifty! What’s happened to me? Fortunately, as I go forward, it is starting to get better… However, manga are pilling up on my nightstand, so I will soon have to pay attention to them…

“Summer is officially dead. It smells like Fall outside and I heard a flight of geese passing over the house”. Then, Fall officially came. It got colder and rainy. We even had some light snow. It became a little warmer for a while, but now we can feel that Winter is around the corner. Flowers and plants are shrivelling, twisting and taking the brownish colour of death. Winter is coming…

The lights have started to flicker again. Same time than last year…

On the world stage, we find the usual disasters (increasing numbers of earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and volcanoes) but my attention had been particularly focused on the trumpian saga of corruption scandals (Stormy Daniels, the Mueller’s investigation, of course, but particularly the Kavanaugh confirmation) growing in a crescendo as the midterm elections are closing by. Such craziness! (For all the details see the 2018 events for the months of August, September and October as well as the links bellow).

Despite all this, I surprisingly succeeded to stay acquainted with the affairs of the world and gathered over two-hundred notable news & links — which I now share with you (in both french or english, slightly categorized, but in no particular order; please note that, to save on coding time, the links will NOT open in a new window as usual) after the jump.

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Apple Stuff

• Everything we’re expecting Apple to announce at its biggest hardware event of the year (Business Insider)
• 8+ Cool Things You Didn’t Know Apple TV Could Do! (iDropNews)
• Apple’s New Smartwatch Can Only Monitor Your Heart in the U.S. (Bloomberg)
• Apple Working With Health Canada to Bring Apple Watch Series 4’s ECG Functionality to Canadian Market (MacRumors)
• Apple Watch Series 4: The first reviews are in (ped30)
• Apple Watch received FDA clearance just one day before the launch; cardiologist questions ECG accuracy (9to5 Mac)
• Apple Watch 4 review: the best gets better (The Verge)
• Is the New Apple Watch Worth It? A Sleeker, Better Design and Some Spiffy Brand New Features Say Yes (Vogue)
• Apple AirPower charging pad: An alternative that exists and costs just $40 (CNET)
• macOS 10.14 Mojave: The Ars Technica review (Ars Technica)
• macOS Mojave: The MacStories Review (MacStories)
• Apple’s watchOS 5 with Walkie Talkie, Podcast apps is now available (Apple Insider)
• Is Apple’s AirPower wireless charging pad late because of something besides technical challenges? (Apple Insider)
• 5 Reasons We’re Excited to Upgrade to Apple’s iOS 12 (Fashion Mag)
• After Apple Watch ECG, we could see Force Touch-based blood pressure readings (9to5 Mac)
• Speed, performance updates key as Apple releases iOS 12 (USA Today)
• How to use the coolest new features in iOS 12 (MacWorld)
• Apple TV’s new TVOS 12 is available now: What’s new and how to get it (CNET)
• Five security settings in iOS 12 you should change right now (Tech Crunch)
• iOS 12 review: the fixes are in (The Verge)
• iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, Apple Watch 4: Everything Apple just announced (CNET)
• New Apple Watch doesn’t have the feature most consumers want (Market Watch)
• Apple Watch Series 4 more than 98% accurate at detecting AFib, finds study (9to5 Mac)
• The four biggest announcements from the Apple September event (The Verge)
• Apple Watch patent application leads to speculation of always-on screen mode (9to5 Mac)
• Apple just turned your ancient AirPort Express router into an AirPlay 2 wireless speaker dongle (CNET)
• macOS Mojave adds new features to Apple’s Pages, Numbers and Keynote (AppleInsider)
• One workaround for merging two Apple ID accounts (MacWorld) [Not!]
• After nearly four years, Apple is finally overhauling the Mac mini (TechSpot, Quartz) [Is it?]
• Apple wants your iPhone to warn you of spoofed calls (Cult of Mac)
• 17 New iOS 12 Features You’ll Want to Try Right Now (iDrop News)
• How to Output Your Mac’s Audio to Two Pairs of Headphones at the Same Time (MacRumors)
• Apple may have found a brilliant way to bring fingerprint sensors back to all-screen iPhones (BGR)
• Apple Watch User Guide (link)
• Apple announces iPad Pro and Mac event for October 30th (The Verge, (9 to 5 Mac)

Books, Culture & Library

• Druillet’s Yragaël & Urm the Madman hard cover published by Titan Comics (ICv2)
• Idées, propositions et question pour un gouvernement qui prend ses responsabilités en matière de bibliothèques publiques (Bibliomancienne)
• Salade mixte No.1 (Bibliomancienne)
• Book Depository: Another online bookstore (although own by Amazon) with free delivery worldwide (link)
• Why you should read this article slowly (The Guardian)
• Maine Pastors Attempt to Remove My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness Manga from Library Display (ANN)
• Harcèlement dans les bibliothèques de Longueuil (La Presse, Le Reflet, Le Reflet, Métro, Radio-Canada)
• Les bibliothèques dans les Villes interculturelles (Bibliomancienne)
• Des candidates au secours des bibliothèques scolaires (Le Devoir)
• Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell on why we need libraries: an essay in pictures (The Guardian)
• To Restore Civil Society, Start With the Library (NYT)
• Neil Gaiman and Haruki Murakami up for alternative Nobel literature prize (The Guardian)
• 11 places for thrifty bookworms to download free e-books (Mashable)
• Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound (The Guardian)
• J.R.R. Tolkien’s latest posthumous book may actually be the last (Washington Post)
• Review: C comme Cthulhu – L’abécédaire Lovecraft (Karine/Mon Coin Lecture)
• Growing up in a house full of books is major boost to literacy and numeracy, study finds (The Guardian)
• How to get ARCs (Advance Review Copy): A Guide (Devouring Books) [in my hayday we just had to ask the publisher… now they turned this into a game?]
• Reclaiming Reference at the Library (Publisher Weekly)
• Palaces for the people: why libraries are more than just books (The Guardian)
• Worry Less About Crumbling Roads, More About Crumbling Libraries (The Atlantic)
• The Debate Over “Devil’s Triangle” Shows Wikipedia At Its Best (Slate)
• Yes, teens are texting and using social media instead of reading books, researchers say (Washington Post)
• Leisure reading in the U.S. is at an all-time low (Washington Post)
• Why We Don’t Read, Revisited (The New Yorker)
• Decline in reading worries experts (Vancouver Sun / The Gazette via PressReader)
• Little Women at 150: How Louisa May Alcott’s Masterpiece Fostered Y.A. Literature (Vanity Fair)
• My Montreal: Heather O’Neill’s inspiration is right at her doorstep ( Montreal Gazette)
• Resilience, strength, empathy: How books are helping my daughter find her place in the world (Washington Post)
• Harvey Award Nominees for 2018 (ICv2)
• Le design du « care » en bibliothèque : du tiers lieu au lieu d’inclusion (Bibliomancienne)
• 17 Cool Things You Didn’t Know You Can Do With A Library Card (BuzzFeed)
• Safia Ketou: The First Algerian Sci-fi Novelist of Post-independence Algeria (ArabLit)
• From Brooklyn to Wichita, public libraries create LGBTQ-affirming spaces (NBC)
• 8 Essential Movies for People Who Love Books (real Simple)

Entertainments & pop culture (geeky stuff)

• Patrick Stewart Returns to ‘Star Trek’ (ICv2)
• Who Watches the Watchmen? HBO Viewers. Premium Network Picks Up ‘Watchmen’ for Series (ICv2)
• New ‘Doctor Who: Series 11’ Trailer (ICv2)
• Upcoming TV series that are based on a book (The Insider)
• After Decades of Silence, Soon-Yi Previn Speaks (Vulture)
• From TARDIS to TIE Fighter – Matt Smith Executes Quantum shift (ICv2)
• Apple moves forward with TV adaptation of Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ (Engadget, IO9)
• Belle De Jour: Luis Bunuel’s celebrated exploration of female desire turns 50 (Whats on TV)
• Charles Aznavour, French singing star, dies at 94 (BBC)
• Everything coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and HBO Now in October (The Verge)
• Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, Dead at 76 (Rolling stone)
• Netflix has tons of hidden categories; here’s how to see them (Mashable)
• HBO Boards ‘His Dark Materials’ BBC Series Based On Philip Pullman’s Books (Deadline)
• ‘Game of Thrones’ Final Season Might Premiere Even Later Than We Thought (ET)
• ‘Outlander’ Season 4 Premiere Date Set In November (Deadline)

Film Festivals

• Fantasia 2018 awards (link)
• Le Grand Prix des Amériques à Curtiz (La Presse)
• FFM 2018: Cinq témoins japonais de la condition humaine (Shomingeki.org)
• FNCM 2018 : Deux Japonais, une Japonaise, et leur temps (Shomingeki.org)
• Cinéma du Musée (lien)

Health, Home & Environment

• Could Alzheimer’s Be An Infectious Disease? (NPR)
• Climate change could affect human evolution. Here’s how. (NBC)
• Apple Watch Series 4 can detect AFib and perform an ECG (Tech Crunch)
• How Much Alcohol Is Safe to Drink? None, Say These Researchers (NYT)
• Grippe: accès réduit au vaccin gratuit (Le Devoir)
• A Nobel Prize Winner Explains How to Finally Think Clearly (Forbes)
• 98.6 Degrees Is a Normal Body Temperature, Right? Not Quite (Wired)
• Farmers’ Almanac forecasts ‘very, very cold’ winter for Canada (CTV)
• Health Canada expands recall of some heart, high blood pressure drugs (CBC, Global, Pharmacists.ca)
• The Apple Watch is one step closer to diagnosing this potentially fatal condition (T3)
• Let the sun shine in: solariums bring the outdoor in even when it’s cold outside (Gazette via PressReader)
• We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN (The Guardian)
• Extreme heat, deluges and economic pain: What the UN climate report says for North America (USA Today)
• Five things we have learned from the IPCC report (BBC)
• Science Says This Is the Simplest Way to Remember More of What You Read (Inc.com)
• Flu season deaths top 80,000 last year, CDC says (CNN)
• Fish Oil Drug May Prevent Heart Attack and Strokes in High-Risk Patients (NYT)
• The superhospital conundrum: specialized care but long ER waits (Montreal Gazette)
• Drug recall: Class-action request filed in Montreal (Montreal Gazette)
• To Fix That Pain In Your Back, You Might Have To Change The Way You Sit (NPR)
• Valsartan: Des patients inquiets et frustrés par l’industrie pharmaceutique (Le Devoir)

History & Sciences

• Almanac: When Japan attacked Oregon (CBS)
• Check out the view from an asteroid 280 million kilometers from earth (Quartz)
• Iran’s Pompeii: Astounding story of a massacre buried for millennia (New Scientist)
• After three years and hundreds of gruesome deaths, Britain’s ‘Cat Killer’ case has been solved (WaPo)
• A 558-Million-Year-Old Mystery Has Been Solved (The Atlantic)
• How The Weather Channel Made That Insane Storm Surge Animation (Wired)
• Hundreds Of Roman Gold Coins Found In Theater Basement (NPR)
• ‘Amazing’ archeological find in Yukon’s melting ice patches: an intact atlatl (CBC)
• NASA 60th anniversary: All about the space agency’s past, present and future (CNET)
• Is hydrogen water real, or just another gimmick? (Gazette via PressReader)
• The Nastiest Feud in Science (The Atlantic)
• Human Sacrifices At Massive Pyramid Along Great Wall Change Archaeologists’ View Of Early China (Forbes)
• Vast Theft of Antiquarian Books Sends a Shudder Through a Cloistered World of Dealers (NYT)
• In Jamestown, a reckoning over American slavery’s beginnings (AP)
• Scientists may have discovered the very first ‘ghost’ black hole from a different universe (BGR)
• The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages (The New Yorker)
• Almost Everything We Know About The Earliest Copies of the New Testament Is Wrong (The Daily Beast)
• Archaeologists Unearthed A Lost City In Rural Kansas Field (Inquisitr)
• Spectacular Skeletons Unearthed From Bronze Age Chamber Tomb On Crete (Forbes)
• Hoard of 2,000-year-old silver Roman coins unearthed by group of friends and a metal detector (The Telegraph)
• Drought In Central Europe Reveals Cautionary ‘Hunger Stones’ In Czech River (NPR)
• Archaeologists Thought They’d Find the Tomb of Alexander the Great. Instead They Found a Medical Marvel (ArtNet)
• ‘Ring of Fire’ hit with 70 earthquakes in just 48 hours (NY Post)
• When flying to Mars is your day job (BBC)
• Just where is Hochelaga? Archeologists digging for the truth beneath the city (Gazette via PressReader)
• This is the First Video Ever Shot from an Asteroid’s Surface (PetaPixel)
• Rare Tree Kangaroo Reappears After Vanishing for 90 Years (National Geographic)
• Astronauts survive Soyuz rocket emergency landing (CNN)
• Yellowstone geyser barfs up ‘strange’ garbage dating back to the 1930s (USA Today)
• Birds in Minnesota keep crashing into things and police think it’s because they’re drunk (CNN)
• The Game-Changing Technique Behind an Amazing New Archaeological Discovery (The Atlantic)
• Scientists Used X-Rays to Virtually Unravel a Burnt 400-Year-Old Scroll (Vice)
• Airtight Iron Coffin Found in Queens Held a Mysterious 19th-Century Mummy (Lives Science)
• Beluga Charms British With Impromptu Visit (NPR)
• A seal slapped a kayaker with an octopus in viral video and there’s a perfectly reasonable explanation (USA Today)
• Chasing asteroids: Dual missions sniff out clues to solar system’s past (CS Monitor)
• Asteroid discovered after it makes the closest flyby of the year (CNET)
• How To Edit a Man (The Economist/1843)
• What really happened to the Library of Alexandria? (TED-ed)

Humour

• Chronicle Herald editorial cartoon: Assault on Lady Justice, by Bruce MacKinnon (2018/09/29) 
• Between Friends, by Sandra-Bell-Lundy (2018/07/17)
• Dog Eat Doug, by Brian Anderson (2018/07/14)
• Rhymes with Orange, by Hilary Price (2018/07/12)
• Ben, by Daniel Shelton (2018/07/11)
• Non Sequitur, by Wiley (2018/07/09)
• Bizarro, by Wayne & Piraro (2018/05/16) 
• Dilbert, by Scott Adams (2018/07/03)
• Pearls Before Swine, by Stephan Pastis (2018/06/15)
• Dilbert, by Scott Adams (2018/06/15)
• Between Friends, by Sandra-Bell-Lundy (2018/06/12)
• Dilbert, by Scott Adams (2018/06/8)
• Zits, by Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman (2018/06/06)
• Pearls Before Swine, by Stephan Pastis (2018/06/04) 
• Bizarro, by Wayne & Piraro (2018/05/16)
• Non Sequitur, by Wiley (2018/07/09)
• Bizarro, by Wayne & Piraro (2018/05/06)

Japan & Japanese popular culture (anime & manga)

• Kodansha Comics releases a new anthology of GITS short stories (but not from Masamune Shirow): GITS, Global Neural Network (link)
• Gaina annonce Gunbuster 3 et la suite des Ailes d’Honnéamise ! (Animeland)
• Studio Ghibli Honors ‘My Neighbor Totoro’s 30 Anniversary (ICv2)
• J-Pop star Namie Amuro retires from showbiz (NHK World)
• The Groundbreaking Anime Thriller ‘Perfect Blue’ Is Coming To Theaters This September (Forbes)
• Review: The Manga Cookbook, Vol. 3, and other manga (MangaBookshelf)
• Review: A Silent Voice, vol. 1-7 (Karine / Mon Coin Lecture)
• Live-Action Saint Young Men Net Series Debuts on October 18 (ANN)
• Japanese passport is the most powerful in the world, Henley index shows (USA Today)
• Japan’s Eiko Kadono, author of ‘Kiki’s Delivery Service,’ wins Hans Christian Andersen Award (Japan Times)
• 11 Forgotten Anime Series From The 90s That Still Hold Up Today (Geek.com) [Yes! Nadia, Irresponsible Captain Tylor, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Brain Powerd, The Big O !!!] 
• Alita: Battle Angel Film Pushed Back Again to February 14 (ANN)
• Maine Pastors Attempt to Remove My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness Manga from Library Display (ANN)
• Golden Kamuy Season 2 Anime Premieres on October 8 (ANN)
• Momoko Sakura, creator of ‘Chibi Maruko-chan,’ dies of breast cancer (Japan Times)
• Vinland Saga Anime Unveils Main Staff, Visual (ANN)
• your name. Director Makoto Shinkai Teases New Film for Next Year (ANN)
• New Ghost in the Shell Anime Will Have 2 Seasons (ANN)

Local News

• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts raising curtain on new cinema this fall (The Gazette)
• L’année zéro du Cinéma du Musée (La Presse)
• UNIQLO veut s’implanter au Québec (Le Journal de Montréal) [C’est un détaillant japonais de vêtements]
• Wild animals in Montreal aren’t the problem, experts say, humans are (Montreal Gazette)
• The NFB is on the move, but leaves a lot of history behind (The Gazette)
• Canadians will see mild fall with a steady transition to winter: meteorologist (CTV)
• Bones, brains, bladders: McGill opens body parts museum to the public (Montreal Gazette)
• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts illuminates medieval books of hours (Montreal Gazette)
• Allison Hanes: Almost anything beats taking the bus (Montreal Gazette)
• Alanis Obomsawin, jeune militante abénaquise (Archives Radio-Canada)
• Canada Legalizes Recreational Marijuana, and a National Experiment Begins (The New York Times)
• Des élections municipales partielles le 16 décembre (Journal Métro)

Photo / videography

• Your iPhone’s camera just got an upgrade thanks to iOS 12 — here are all the ways it changed (Business Insider)
• iPhone pix of craggy lunar surface sends photog over the moon (Cult of Mac)
• DaVinci Resolve 15 is a free, Hollywood-grade video editor (Engadget)
• Portraits de Montréal (lien)
• How to disable My Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Sharing without erasing your photos (Mac World)

Politics, Economy & Society (and Trump Insanities!)

• Saudi Arabia expelling Canadian ambassador, freezing trade with Canada (Globe & Mail)
• Serena Williams’s U.S. Open Loss Was Humiliating—But Not for Her (The Atlantic)
• Trump Dealt Another Blow As ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ Is Being Hailed As Michael Moore’s Greatest Film (Inquisitr)
• How ‘Plaid Shirt Guy’ Got Prime Seating at a Trump Rally (NYT)
• Blatant sexism cost Serena Williams tennis title. Men are celebrated for much worse (USA Today)
• Obama condamne le silence des républicains (Le Devoir)
• Senate Democrats Investigate a New Allegation of Sexual Misconduct, from the Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s College Years (The New Yorker)
• The Plot to Subvert an Election: Unraveling the Russia Story So Far (NYT)
• The year of the woman candidate offers voters a series of ‘firsts’ (The Lily)
• Third Kavanaugh accuser steps forward (Politico)
• Trump Officials Just Killed A Safety Rule For Trains Carrying Oil (BuzzFeed)
• Bernstein: We’re in a cold civil war (CNN)
• The real scandal isn’t collusion with Russia, it is everything about Donald Trump (USA Today)
• Federal worker union wins lawsuit against Trump’s swipe at collective bargaining (Chicago Suntimes)
• John McCain, senator and former presidential candidate, dies at 81 (CNN)
• Fox News Criticizes Jamie Lee Curtis for Using Guns in Movies (Daily Dot)
• For Canada and U.S., ‘That Relationship Is Gone’ After Bitter Nafta Talks (NYT)
• Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father (NYT)
• From Copyright Term to Super Bowl Commercials: Breaking Down the Digital NAFTA Deal (Michael Geist)
• Halifax artist’s cartoon in response to Kavanaugh hearing goes viral (The Chronicle Herald)
• Gen Z will outnumber millennials within a year (Financial Post)
• Diplomats Say They Were Definitely Laughing At Trump At The UN (BuzzFeed)
• Donald Trump revokes ex-CIA director John Brennan’s security clearance (CNN)
• Elon Musk Details ‘Excruciating’ Personal Toll of Tesla Turmoil (NYT)
• After three years and hundreds of gruesome deaths, Britain’s ‘Cat Killer’ case has been solved (Washington Post)

Technology & Gadgets

• How to Get the Most Out of Gmail’s New Features (Wired)
• VMware Fusion 11 Released With Support for macOS Mojave, 18-Core iMac Pro, and More (MacRumors)
• Instagram’s Co-Founders to Step Down From Company (NYT)
• Philips Hue now supports iOS 12’s Siri Shortcuts (Engadget)
• Solar Panel Window Blinds (Interesting Engineering)
• Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (Interesting Engineering)
• E-Bike Conversion System (Interesting Engineering)
• Flying Car Concept (Interesting Engineering)
• You Don’t Own the Music, Movies or Ebooks You ‘Buy’ on Amazon or iTunes (LifeHacker)