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Here are our favorite stories, podcasts, and videos from around the Web for the week of July 20.

• Health and science editor Laura Helmuth likes …
  “Why Aren’t There More Minority Journalists?” by Alex T. Williams, Columbia Journalism Review
  “We should all recognize & try to fix this: Networks reinforce privilege. Why so few minority journalists?”

• Associate editor J. Bryan Lowder likes …
  “How I Tried to Slide Into a Relationship” by Matt Ortile, BuzzFeed
  “ ‘My cards weren’t just on the table; my cards were in the cloud.’ A very fine essay on digital love.”

• Slate contributor Jason Bittel likes …
  “Lizard’s Water-Funnelling Skin Copied in the Lab” by Jonathan Webb, BBC
  “I confess, I love biomimicry stories.”

• Future Tense research associate Jacob Brogan likes …
  “Do the World’s ‘Uncontacted’ Tribes Deserve to Be Left Alone?” by Ishaan Tharoor, the Washington Post
  “Peruvian anthropologists are reaching out to a previously isolated Amazonian tribe. Should they?”

• Staff writer Jamelle Bouie likes …
  “Ulysses S. Grant Died 130 Years Ago. Racists Hate Him, but Historians No Longer Do.” by Nick Baumann, the Huffington Post
  “Great piece on U.S Grant’s rehabilitation over the past few decades.”

• Assistant editor Miriam Krule likes …
  “These Companies Claim They Can End Office Air-Conditioning Wars” by Rebecca Greenfield, Bloomberg
  “I love the idea of an app that tallies workers' votes to decide on an appropriate office temperature.”

• Political Gabfest host David Plotz likes …
  “Ted Cruz Is More of a Spider-Man Guy” by Ana Marie Cox, the New York Times
  “Ted Cruz nails this interview.”