First Links — 7.11.14

Vatican Says There Will Be No “Two Popes Final” for the World Cup
The Straits Times

‘Human Props’ Stay in Luxury Homes but Live like Ghosts
Drew Harwell, Tampa Bay Times

Describing a Visual World Without Vision
Jessica Love, The American Scholar

The Mortality of Paper
Elizabeth Yale, The Atlantic

The Race to Stop Africa’s Elephant Poachers
Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine

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