Check out Lomita’s favorite reads from the web this week.

• Cheese experts challenge the conventional origin myth of this dairy product in How a Massive Environmental Crisis Led to the Invention of Cheese (Mother Jones).
• The Magna Carta Myth (The New Yorker) highlights the uses (and, often, perversions) of the Magna Carta in the popular imagination. Spoiler alert: you can buy Magna Carta pacifiers now.
• Science tells you why you love Serial so much: Inside the Podcast Brain: Why Do Audio Stories Captivate? (The Atlantic).
• The Cost of Sally Mann’s Exposure (New York Times Magazine) raises questions about if, when photographed, we leave behind our real-life personhood and become objects for the public gaze. Mann, speaking out about highly controversial nude photos she took of her young kids years ago, splices a wedge between sexuality and nudity.

Contact Lora Kelley at lkelley ‘at’ stanford.edu