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- Fitness columnist Casey Johnston experimented with the pot to investigate how it impacted her workout routine, with mixed results.
- Good news for Radiohead fans! No, not a new album or a tour announcement... but you CAN watch more of their old concerts on your computer, ok?
- A body found floating in the Hudson River near 45th Street on Monday has been identified as Shuvro Biswas, a 31-year-old mathematician who had been developing a cryptocurrency security program. The cause of death is under investigation.
- The Australian military is currently mired in a twerking coverup scandal.
- The Library of America will publish a previously unseen novel by the late author Richard Wright, about "an innocent Black man forced to confess to the murder of a white couple."
- A privacy advocate says he easily forged New York State's vaccine passport app, deriding it as "coercive theater that’s sure to fuel distrust among the already vaccine-hesitant."
- New York Magazine takes a closer look at the NYC voters backing mayoral candidate Andrew Yang, finding that "there’s more to Yang’s persistent polling advantage than his elevated profile."
- Hundreds of major companies, including Amazon, Google, G.M. and Starbucks, have issued a joint statement opposing “any discriminatory legislation” making voting more difficult.
- And finally, a classic cat move:
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