The Sunday supplement: #88

Year-end lists worth reading, practical advice on daily "wellness," 2023 movie recommendations from filmmaker friends, and more

Artwork for “Hilary Duff - Come Clean (Nick Le​ó​n Bubbling mix)”, via bandcamp

First off, reader Alex yesterday requested some ideas for wintery cello sonatas. I suggest checking out the work of Mieczyslaw Weinberg or Schubert's Arpeggione. And this is nice:

So, I don’t love a year-end list, but sometimes they’re fun. Here are a couple I enjoyed:

• Matthew Schnipper drops his 100 best songs of the year.

• Resident Advisor picks the year's best club-friendly takes on pop tunes.

• Recent jargon to describe the year in climate crisis news, via Grist.

For years, companies have been making pledges to go “carbon-neutral,” aiming to offset their emissions with tree-planting projects, usually halfway around the world. Carbon offsets are ‘riddled with fraud.’ Can new voluntary guidelines fix that? Solving credibility issues may require a greater overhaul of carbon markets. But offsetting schemes often fail to deliver on what they promise…. Enter carbon insetting, in which companies attempt to remove emissions from within their own supply chains — the string of activities involved in producing and distributing their products.

• Also, in India, “looking like a wow” would likely beat “rizz” for phrase of the year? Via rest of world.