Lazy Linking, 218th in an Occasional Series

Stuff I liked lately on the Internets:

218.1 The economics of sand are not looking good  go.nature.com/2Xos7iO @nresearchnews

218.2 Nothing to see here, just FBI/ICE scraping driver's licenses to improve their facial recognition efforts wapo.st/2G9prem @washingtonpost

218.3 We're a car-dominated culture not just by personal choice but also by force of policy choices bit.ly/2xFN8q9 @theatlantic

218.4 An extraordinarily gracious exchange btwn Naomi Osaka & Serena Williams demonstrates their awareness of the importance of the moment they shared bit.ly/2JJ7HHB @theroot

218.5 Re: landscapes, what have beavers done for us and how much can we learn from them? bit.ly/2JsoL68 @placesjournal