The Year in Review: A round-up of summaries
It's that time of year, and what a year to look back on. Here are some of our favorite takes so far, to be updated as 2016 walks slowly offstage.
1. Trends and commentary: Some of the year's best tweets and hastags.
"To all the little girls watching...never doubt that you are valuable and powerful & deserving of every chance & opportunity in the world."
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 9, 2016
2. Trump v. Clinton: Nineteen things learned from the US presidential election, from a statistical modeling point of view.
The 2016 election was not about shark attacks or football games but rather about big stories that didn’t matter much, or canceled each other out.
3. Music: The Quietus albums of the year; the best of Bandcamp; Popmatters's best of the year in jazz.
4. Books: We've previously summed some of these up, but here are 30 medieval texts that were translated this year, also what Bill Gates enjoyed reading.
String Theory is a collection of five of Wallace’s best essays on tennis, a sport I gave up in my Microsoft days and am once again pursuing with a passion. You don’t have to play or even watch tennis to love this book. The late author wielded a pen as skillfully as Roger Federer wields a tennis racket. Here, as in his other brilliant works, Wallace found mind-blowing ways of bending language like a metal spoon.
5. Longtime gear reviewer Michael Lanza's favorite backpacks and things from 2016.
To be updated.
