Are temp checks actually useful? Does your grandpa need a robot friend? Can snail mail get any slower? We’re asking and answering the hard-hitting questions in this week’s internet news roundup. #breadcrumbs

CULTURE

• Don’t remember a time before “binge-watching” was a thing? We have Netflix to thank for that!! 📼
• She’s the woman who had “outsung Ray Charles”, she’s your OG blues singer, she’s the almighty Margie Hendrix
• Diving deeper into “the dilemma” after watching The Social Dilemma
• Will doing a temp check before your Friday night dinner rezzy actually help? 🍽️
• The gossip mag that never was: a behind-the-scenes-look at how unproblematic People is
• Who else didn’t realize that the Emmys are this Sunday? Here’s how not to miss it 🏆

ART & FASHION

• As traditional fashion week format crumbles, Vogue Runway relaunches and reinvents itself
• Zanele Muholi speaks about using the camera as a tool for visibility, shedding a light on the truths and realities of Black LGBTI people in South Africa
• Taking the term “multi-disciplinary creative” 👨‍🎨  to a whole new level.
• And finally, the £700 LV face shields we didn’t know we didn’t need 💸😷💸

TECH & SCIENCE

• Apparently listening in on those Whale calls are good for us humans 📞  🐋
•  A circular economy, not just about recycling ♼: it’s about a sustainable future
• “I wuv you, grandpa!” 🤖 The new robot companion for your G-ma and G-pa…not that we’re for it
• Google pledges to run carbon-free by 2030 🍃👏  *cue standing ovation*

NEWS & BIZ

• Naomi Osaka champions both the U.S. Open and social justice with her masks 🎾  🖤
• Is snail mail getting slower??? Mail in your ballot early, folks!
• Literally the only good pandemic-related news: BP predicts that oil consumption may have peaked, and we’ve got COVID-19 to thank
• The who, what, when, where and whys of the American migration pattern during the pandemic 📊