From WhatsApp’s FIRST brand campaign to time-traveling with David Bowie, Spring/Summer drops to the death of Flywheel at-home bikes, here’s our weekly links roundup for you! #breadcrumbs

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CULTURE

• Thank you for being you Pop Smoke, a true loss for Brooklyn Grime culture 🙏🏿
• Binged Sex Education yet? Meet the writer behind the quirky, intimate show
• If you haven’t heard already, the New Pope soundtrack is brilliant 😎🔥
• With 2 billion users, WhatsApp decides it needs a way to reach the other 5 billion people on the planet, so they launched their first-ever big ad campaign 💬
• Burger King’s new controversial ad is… a moldy Whopper? — here’s why and how they got there 🤢
• A glimpse at the next generation of activists? #ExtinctionRebellionProtest
• New book alert—Brandon Taylor’s Real Life tells a true story and what it means to live authentically for this generation 🔖

 

ART & FASHION

• Some hypebeast streetwear drops heading your way this Spring/Summer 🛍️🆒
• Time travel to 1972 with David Bowie ⏱️
• The fashionable way to “protect” yourself from an epidemic 😷
• Here comes your Valentino x Mytheresa Men’s exclusive capsule collection
• Diving into Wednesday Holmes’ illustrated world of LGBTQI+ community 🏳️‍🌈🖌️
• Teddy Santis does it again, check out Aime Leon Dore’s SS20 collection as well as these lookbook photos from Kingston 🇯🇲

 

TECH & SCIENCE

• Everyone’s favorite Adobe program Photoshop, turns 30 🎊 🎂
• Antarctic temperature reached a new record of 68F (20C) and penguins are disappearing 🐧😢
• Nearsighted glasses won’t solve Tesla’s speeding issues
• Valentines come and go, but what you put online is forever 👤
• This new study shines a light on the dangers of moderate drinking…
• That moment you found out your Flywheel at-home bike is likely shutting down soon because of its Peloton patent dispute… 🤦

 

NEWS & BIZ

• Good luck getting that DMV appointment 📅
• Us trying to figure out who on Bloomberg’s campaign thought this was a good idea 😒
• Patients without borders ✈️🏥💉
• How much $$$ does it save to change a lightbulb at Walmart? 💸💡
• Salter has big plans for Forever 21 as his Authentic Brands seals the deal 
• We are asking you once again to please fact check Coronavirus news clickbait