In The Buzz Cut, we bring you a round-up of all the weird, controversial, and wonderful stories we’ve been reading all week.
People in certain parts of India took to Twitter this week to marvel at a sudden, massive moth invasion, with people posting pictures of entire windows covered in small, brownish grey moths attracted to artificial light. According to scientists, this is a common phenomenon around the months of September and October every year, marking an extended monsoon season, like this year. Here’s what you need to know.
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In Google’s Search On event this week, the tech giant announced plans to install a “hum to search” feature in its search engine, essentially allowing people to search for songs by simply humming them. Forget no more.
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Deep in the French countryside, there’s a group of collapsologists — people who believe the world is heading toward the end of civilization, and the end of humanity. Can we learn a way of life from them that makes our last days easier?
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Remember the times when irony and sarcasm were easy-to-identify and hard-to-cultivate markers of the coolest people? Well, no more. In The Cut’s podcast, author Raven Leilani talks the death of irony, and the whole-hearted embrace of earnestness.
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The coronavirus pandemic has revealed several gaps in our society, in our governments and in our medical institutions. It has also raised questions we need to find answers to fast — how to ensure people have healthcare, how to ensure people are healthy, how to ensure everyone has a vaccine, and lastly, but perhaps more immediately: how to persuade an anti-vaxxer.
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What, exactly, is the appeal of Timothée Chalamet? In this tell-all with GQ, the young actor looks back on his short but swiftly successful career, with nuggets from his co-stars along the way that paint a picture of an actor who feels he’s just starting out, still grappling with all he has achieved. Oh, and there’s a bit about the infamous kiss with Lily Rose-Depp, too, of course.
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The trope of the unhorny man is on the rise. Gone are the days when men were understood to have only two priorities — food and sex, as glorified by Joey Tribbiani’s character on F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Unhorny men are having a moment on Twitter, and there might just be something generational to it.
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As Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide became an event the entire country debated over on social media, there was another platform, seemingly dedicated to an ever-elusive ‘truth,’ that became an unprecedented battleground: Wikipedia.
