Four Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish

09:57

Plots of 80s movies if their protagonists had been people of color. "Ferris attends school that day, and every other day, until he graduates high school as valedictorian, goes to Yale, and becomes a dermatologist." [newyorker.com]

Hard to pick the best line from this review of the Harry/Meghan/Oprah interview but: "For the Irish, [having a monarchy next door] is like having a neighbour who's really into clowns and, also, your grandfather was murdered by a clown." [irishtimes.com]

Out today: Walter Isaacson's The Code Breaker, the story of how Nobel-winner Jennifer Doudna & her colleagues developed the Crispr gene editing technique. [bookshop.org]

This Lego bonsai tree is "a mindful build" designed for adults. [lego.com]

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