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About 13m US children are living below the poverty line, rights group reveals By Chris McGreal (The Guardian)
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Amazing jobs: Ink blender (NHK-World Japan)
Ancient humans used the moon as a calendar in the sky By Rebecca Boyle (Science News)
Are we on the way to civilisation collapse? By Luke Kemp (BBC)
A society that forgoes monogamy Video by Christopher Cherry (BBC)
As World Makes Gains Against Child Marriage, Nepal Struggles to Catch Up By Bhadra Sharma and Kai Schultz (The New York Times)
Are You Rich? Where Does Your Net Worth Rank in America? (The New York Times)
At 14, She Hunts Wolves and Takes Selfies With Cherished Eagle in Mongolia By Hannah Reyes Morales (The New York Times)
Boudica the warrior queen By Caitlin C Gillespie (Aeon)
Counter Mapping By Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee (Emergence Magazine)
Cultural Exploration Via Cruise Ships Starts On Board By Baz Dreisinger (NPR)
Culture (Aeon)
Deep Civilisation: The long view of humanity - a series that aims to stand back from the news cycle and widen the lens of our current place in time (BBC)
Denmark's free 'baby hotels' By Antoaneta Roussi and Matteo Lonardi (BBC)
Dream weavers: the indigenous Ainu people of Japan – in pictures By Laura Liverani (The Guardian)
Finland Gave People $640 A Month, No Strings Attached. Here’s What Happened. By Laura Paddison (Huffington Post)
Finland Is a Capitalist Paradise By Anu Partanen and Trevor Corson (The New York Times)
Finland's unique baby boxes (BBC)
Foto del Giorno: Sheep Nanny
Genocide Studies Program (Yale University)
How Different Cultures Handle Personal Space By NPR Staff, Leila Fadel, and Lourdes Garcia-Navarro (NPR)
How Do You Build a Healthy City? Copenhagen Reveals Its Secrets By Sarah Boseley (The Guardian)
How Iceland Got Teens to Say No to Drugs By Emma Young (The Atlantic)
How natural is numeracy? By Philip Ball (Aeon)
Is a More Generous Society Possible? By Leah Shaffer (Sapiens)
'It’s a miracle': Helsinki's radical solution to homelessness By Jon Henley (The Guardian)
Japanese mayor cuts ties between SF and Osaka over comfort women statue By Heather Knight (Sand Francisco Chronicle)
Kyushoku: The Making of a Japanese School Lunch (YouTube)
Male scientists are often cast as lone geniuses. Here’s what happened when a woman was. By Brian Resnick (Vox)
'Menstrual Man' Had An Idea To Help Indian Women By Nishat Kurwa (NPR)
Narrower Skulls, Oblong Brains: How Neanderthal DNA Still Shapes Us By Carl Zimmer (The New York Times)
Norway’s First-Ever Rural Pride Parade -Video by Julie Lunde Lillesæter and Julia Dahr (The Atlantic)
Parabola - The Search for Meaning 
Preparing for Invasive Pests Before They Arrive By Stephanie Parker (Undark)
Raising the American Weakling By Tom Vanderbilt (Nautilus)
Rent-a-sister: Coaxing Japan’s hikikomori out of their rooms A film by Amelia Martyn-Hemphill (BBC)
Scientists Are Discovering Long-Lost Rules for Ancient Board Games By Matthew Gault (Vice)
See how visualizations of the moon have changed over time By Cassandra Willyard (Science News)
Sky-High Vegetables: Vertical Farming Sprouts In Singapore By Michaeleen Doucleff (NPR)
’Sorrow is the price you pay for love’ Video by Erlend Eirik Mo (The Atlantic)
The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train Stations By Allan Richarz (City Lab)
The American Lawn By RadioWest (Aeon)
The babies who nap in sub-zero temperatures By Helena Lee (BBC)
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (University of Cambridge)
The climate crisis has sparked a Siberian mammoth tusk gold rush By Sabrina Weiss (Wired)
The cupboard-sized flats of Tokyo By Shiho Fukuda and Keith Bedford (BBC)
The Hot New Millennial Housing Trend Is a Repeat of the Middle Ages By Ilana E. Strauss (The Atlantic)
The lifespan of ancient civilisations By Luke Kemp (BBC)
The Mass Extinction No One Is Talking About By Robert Scheer (Truthdig)
The ‘minterns’ taking internships in their 30s By Anna Pazos (BBC)
The Opioid Epidemic Misunderstood By Raymond Barglow (Skeptic)
The Oscar-Nominated Mirai Is More Than a Moving Tale of Childhood By Nina Li Coomes (The Atlantic)
The Secret Ingredient of Resilient Cities: Culture By Tanvi Misra (City Lab)
The Strange Beauty of Salt Mines By Alan Taylor (The Atlantic)
The Swedish Recycling Revolution (Swedish Institute)
The Tangled Roots of English By Nicholas Wade (The New York Times)
The town that paid women to have babies Video by Ane Irazabal & Cosimo Caridi (BBC)
The whitewashing of Japan’s Naomi Osaka was no accident By Baye McNeil (The Washington Post)
These are all the world's major religions in one map By Frank Jacobs (Big Think)
These Are the World’s Healthiest Nations By Lee J Miller and Wei Lu (Bloomberg)
The US island that speaks Elizabethan English By Brian Carlton (BBC)
To Tibetan Buddhists, sky burials are sacred. To tourists, they’re a morbid curiosity (Aeon)
Traditional Healer Treats Body and Mind By Ryder Diaz (KQED)
Vertical 'Pinkhouses:' The Future Of Urban Farming? By Michaeleen Doucleff (NPR)
We Went to a Fashion Show Inside a Brazilian Prison By Bruno Costa (Vice)
What Happened to America’s Political Center of Gravity By Sahil Chinoy (The New York Times)
What Japan can teach us about cleanliness By Steve John Powell & Angeles Marin Cabello (BBC)
When 20,000 American Nazis Descended Upon New York City Video By Marshall Curry (The Atlantic)
Where you live in America determines when you’ll die By Frank Jacobs (Big Think)
Why Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning Differently By Alex Spiegel (NPR)
Why humans kiss, explained By Xulin Wang (Vox)
Why the U.S. can’t replicate Finland’s educational success By Kevin Dickinson (Big Think)
Why we need to bring back the art of communal bathing By Jamie Mackay (Aeon)
With No Boys Born in Nearly 10 Years, a Polish Village Finds Fame in Its Missing Males By Joanna Berendt (The New York Times)