Unknown Author | April 26, 2025
The Saturday Selection, Vol. 51
The flow state-frown correlation, shuttling Rob Lowe, Epic Systems, and much more.
Every day, WITI’s group chats buzz with fresh links. As part of our Saturday send for paid readers, we round up 11 of the best.
It’s WITI, on the weekend.
Why are these interesting?
Son of CIA deputy director killed while fighting for Russia (The Guardian)
Michael Alexander Gloss, who died on 4 April 2024, was the son of top-ranking US spy Juliane Gallina.
Can You Judge a Wine Bottle by its Label? (The Pudding)
If the label has an animal on it, the answer seems to be yes.
Hollywood is Filming Anywhere Else (New York Times)
It makes more financial sense to fly the show’s host, Rob Lowe, and 100 American contestants thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean to answer trivia questions about dogs, divas and Disney characters at a studio in Dublin.
Sudan’s World War (Sidecar)
The Sudanese civil war is at once too local and too international to be addressed by a diplomatic process that focuses on the two belligerents.