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The Cult Of The American Lawn

Oliver Milman | Noema | 20th March 2025

The well-tended suburban lawn is more than just grass. It has become a symbol of the right sort of American "good life" — one involving home ownership and "moral rectitude". European colonists originally carried the lust for smooth grass across the Atlantic. The upkeep of this harmful, highly fertilised, pesticide-maintained monoculture has become a vicious source of neighbourhood disputes (2,900 words)

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Navigation Queues, Navigation Cues

Domitille Debret | HTML Review | 20th March 2025

Essay about the arrival of infinite scroll on the web, presented in a clever circular design that the reader can scroll through forever. "The scrollbar solved the web’s first scaling problem: how to situate yourself within content that stretched beyond the visible screen. Somewhere along the way, the usage changed and became a fuel for motion. A motion I can’t really control and a motion I can’t really resist" (1,800 words)

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