Weekly Recommended Reading

The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution and more great reads

The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution Society figured out how to manage the waste produced by the Industrial Revolution. We must do the same thing with the Internet today, from Washington Monthly

Pan Am Flight 103: Robert Mueller’s 30-Year Search for Justice, from Wired

The Egg Thief For decades Jeffrey Lendrum helicoptered up and rappelled down to aeries on cliff faces from Patagonia to Quebec, snatching unhatched raptors and selling them, investigators believe, to wealthy Middle Eastern falconers. This week in London, one of the most bizarre criminals in modern history goes on trial for the fourth time. Here is his story, from Outside Magazine

Riding Alongside One of the World’s Last Whaling Tribes An up-close look at the Lamalerans of Indonesia, one of the last hunter-gatherer societies on the planet, from Esquire

Shutdowns Are ‘All Games of Chicken.' Here's How They've Evolved, from The New York Times