“This is the digital age, in which the jobs we work at, the entertainment we divert ourselves with, and the ways we communicate with one another are increasingly defined by the internet and the computers, tablets, and cell phones that connect us to it. None of this would be possible were it not for sand.” Wired: The ultra-pure, super-secret sand that makes your phone possible.

+ Vanity Fair: Inside the Very Big, Very Controversial Business of Dog Cloning. (Humans want exact copies of their dogs. Dogs want basically any human who walks in the room and will pet them…)

+ LA’s Awesome History Of Weird, Food-Shaped Restaurants.