Larger Link Round Up: Part 3

 Irish island of Arranmore asks Americans to move there Mighty tempting

MARSTON HOUSE’S WINTER HOME IN PROVENCE Gorgeous

The mystery photos of a 1957 gay wedding

Why are all the motherhood memoirs so white?

The tradition of taking a man’s last name is ‘unquestionably sexist.’ This new trend could be the solution.

“Within the U.S., there have been all these shifts in naming over the years,” says Brian Powell, a professor of family and gender at Indiana University-Bloomington who has studied attitudes toward marital name changes. Still, he says, most existing options demand some kind of “gendered power shift” that suggests the two partners aren’t entirely equal: Either one name is placed before the other in a hyphenation or one is cast aside altogether. The creation of a completely new name, Powell says, “could be the next logical step.”

The 'Strange, Unduly Neglected Prophet'

Gesell wanted to create a new kind of money — a money that would "rot like potatoes" and "rust like iron" so no one would want to hoard it, a money that was "an instrument of exchange and nothing else." And the crazy part is that he did create it. Through a series of pamphlets, articles and books, Gesell inspired a worldwide movement that introduced a completely new form of money. It's one of the most fascinating, and largely forgotten, stories in economic history.

To decarbonize we must decomputerize: why we need a Luddite revolution

Digitization doesn’t just pose a risk to people, however. It also poses a risk to the planet. July was the hottest month on record. Large chunks of the Arctic are melting. In India, more than half a billion people face water shortages. Putting computation everywhere directly contributes to this crisis. Digitization is a climate disaster: if corporations and governments succeed in making vastly more of our world into data, there will be less of a world left for us to live in.