Best of CH 2015: Link About It

From weird-tasting water to the origins of the "Jazz" paper cup design, the headlines that caught our eye in 2015

If there’s anything more fleeting than a real-time occurrence, it’s an event that takes place on internet time. This year, thousands on thousands of headlines streamed through our digital feeds—some so bizarre, enlightening or innovative that we were compelled to share them through Link About It, our daily look at the web. In 2015, our readers were curious to dig deeper into familiar phenomena, from …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

The Paris Agreement, NASA's call for astronauts, James Turrell on "Hotline Bling" and more in our look at the web

1. Banksy’s New Steve Jobs Artwork Confronts Refugee Stigmas Located on a wall inside the Calais refugee camp, Bansky’s latest piece features the image of late Apple founder Steve Jobs and aims to confront the stigma that refugees drain countries’ resources. It references the history of Jobs and his Syrian migrant father, who moved to America after World War II. Jobs later went on to …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Selfie performance art, a benefit auction for Syria, how our brains respond to music and more in our weekly look around the web

1. Hello! Selfie Miami Like a real-life Tumblr page, artist, author and feminist Kate Durbin created “Hello!Selfie Miami,” a performance piece that occurred last week during Miami Art Week. The response to a man’s attack on Durbin’s piece about teen girls’s selfies manifested in a bunch of young women—dressed as mermaids and covered in Hello Kitty stickers—taking selfies for hours on end, with no interaction …