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10 MUST READS TODAY

Friday
January 18, 2019

1	The Huddle

The Huddle

Now Virtual Sports Have Fantasy Leagues Too

As daily fantasy sports struggles to recapture its rapid early-stage growth, esports is aging into a sports betting savior.

Here’s how you play fantasy esports: Thousands of esports fans build an eight-player fantasy league lineup of professional video gamers, working to stay under a demarcated salary cap in hopes of earning the most points based on said players’ performance in the totally real, not fantasy video game tournament.

If the concept leaves your head aching — or seems a bit depressing, given how far removed esports is from what’s traditionally thought of as actual athletic activity — you’re not alone. But, apparently, you’re either old or straight-up out of touch. The esports revolution has arrived, and it’s not going away.

Opinion

OZY's 'Misunderstood' Sets the Record Straight on Asian Stereotypes

Designer Kimora Lee Simmons and chef Eddie Huang dispel stereotypes about Asian-Americans in this new OZY series.

We’ve all assumed something about somebody that wasn’t true or had false assumptions made about us. It’s frustrating, isn’t it? Join OZY’s Misunderstood as we bust stereotypes about identity groups across America.

Model and fashion designer Kimora Lee Simmons talks about feeling freakish and ugly as a child. To this day, Simmons says, she’s bombarded with negative stereotypes owing to the fact that she’s a Japanese-Black-Korean woman. She refuses to live in fear, though; and as a model, she found a space where traits that once made her stand out and be ostracized as a child are now celebrated.

3	Rising Stars

Rising Stars

The Doctor Prescribing a Walk in the Woods

Dr. Qing Li is the foremost expert on shinrin-yoku, or “forest bathing,” and he wants to see whether it can help fight cancer.

Dr. Qing Li spent a formative week camping with friends in 1988. They went to the Yakushima forest in southern Japan, which brought him back to the poplar forests and apricot trees of the village in China where he was born. He remembered playing hide-and-seek with friends and being among animals. It was so far removed from his life as a student in Tokyo.

The trip left him invigorated but curious. He actually felt healthier. But where did this feeling come from? He was convinced that nature had something to do with it. It seemed like common sense, but there was little scientific backing. “Some people study forests. Some people study medicine,” says Qing. He decided to study both.

Good Sh*t

This Dog Adoption Service Gives Fido a Say

Each year in the U.S., 4 million dogs are returned to shelters. A new website seeks to change how people choose their best friend.

Flashback

How the Red Scare Weakened Radical Feminism

The association between radical feminists and socialist Russia ended up splintering the feminist movement for decades.

6	Fast Forward

Israel’s Tech Expansion Spotlights Glaring Inequality in Tel Aviv

A sharpening income divide spawned by Israel’s booming tech sector is fueling the same questions that San Francisco has faced.

7	The Huddle

Has Women's Tennis Found Marketing's Fountain of Youth?

Among sports viewers, only those of women’s tennis were getting younger over a 10-year period.

Good Sh*t

Your Next True Crime Podcast Fix? It's a Funny Slasher Parody

True crime podcasts are more popular than ever. The next big thing is to poke fun at them.

9	True Story

Southie Tears on the Day Whitey Bulger Died

When James “Whitey” Bulger was beaten to death in prison with a lock in a sock last month, not everybody in the old neighborhood cheered.

Acumen

The Central Asian Country Powering the World's Nuclear Needs

Kazakhstan’s thriving uranium industry provides the makings for more than one-third of the world’s nuclear fuel.

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