Links and Stuff: July 18, 2019

Insta of the Week:
Sunflowers are so happy!

There's a lot of interesting stuff to read online. Here's what piqued my interest this week.

• A reconstruction of how close Notre Dame came to collapsing. [NYT]
• A look at the work to save Notre Dame. [TIME]
• We're in the age of email newsletters. [Vanity Fair]
• The reason no one smiles in old artwork. [CNN]
• Why it's hard to finish a notebook. [Vox]
• The best space movies and what they got wrong. [TIME]