Monday assorted links
1. Why whales got so big. And too tall for the NBA?
2. Inside the world of instruction manuals.
3. Attempts to encourage science in Africa (The Economist).
4. Michael Anton will now be taking a flight to Hillsdale, Michigan. I don’t expect it to crash.
6. The great Kamel Daoud on leaving Algeria (NYT).
7. “Tropes like the pursuit of individual rights do not speak to a majority of Chinese filmgoers.“