hail Satan? (2019), downsizing (2017), the lovebirds (2020)
i'm working hard on reading this month! the last couple months when I go to may parents' I've picked something to go thru, organize, get rid of. I've cleared out two boxes of magazines to donate to the library, and have started going thru books too (to sell at bookoff, or donate to the library and local "little libraries." i've also been going thru my email inbox. I get flipboard and pocket emails every day so I've been trying to actually read the stuff now, ha!
Jennifer Jordan - Savage Summit, Hilary liftin and Kate Montgomery - dear exile, Stephen Clarke - a year in merde, Christopher R. Browning - Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, Loung Ung - First They Killed My Father
LA Times - Does L.A. Catholic school have a religious-liberty right to fire a teacher who gets cancer?
Bloomberg - At overloaded thrift shops, coronavirus is wreaking havoc
Mental Floss - The Man Who Built a 40-Foot Spite Fence Around His Neighbor’s Home
Time - How Martin Luther King Jr.'s Groundless Traffic Ticket Changed History's Course
Your Tango - What happened to Jared Kushner's face? Startling before/after photos
The Conversation - Dynasties still run the world
The Guardian - Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds.
Grub Street - The Quarantine Garden Has Taken Off Seeds are the new sourdough.
Mental Floss - The Russian Family That Cut Itself Off From Civilization for More Than 40 Years
Fast Company - The untold origin story of the N95 mask
The Guardian - 'It's for my daughter's memory': the Indian village where every girl's life is celebrated
Popular Science - How the new World Cup ball was designed to not influence the games
Longreads - The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor
GQ - Is There a Place for Hooters in 2018?
The Hechinger Report - How to reach students without internet access at home? Schools get creative
Outside - Can You Hack Coral to Save It?
Esquire - How Vans Became the Shoes Everyone’s Wearing—Again
Huffington Post - FML: Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression.
Racked - The History of Green Dye Is a History of Death
Reuters - Cadavers in the ballroom: Doctors practice their craft in America’s favorite hotels
The Guardian - Why are America’s farmers killing themselves?
The Atlantic - How the Index Card Cataloged the World
IndieWire - Animation’s Whitewashing Problem: ‘Rick and Morty,’ ‘BoJack Horseman,’ ‘The Simpsons’ Producers On How To Fix It
Fast Company - Here’s A (Crazy?) Plan To Bribe Crows To Clean Up Cigarette Butts
Vox - How granite countertops became an American obsession
CNN - What North Korean propaganda posters reveal
The Guardian - Bussed out: How America moves its homeless
The Telegraph - No time for leftovers: The astonishing scale of food waste in the UK and around the world
NYT - This Exhibition Was Brought to You by Guns and Big Oil
The Guardian - Rain is sizzling bacon, cars are lions roaring: the art of sound in movies
Vogue - “I Have Never Been Fired at By Police Until Tonight” – Journalists Covering Protests Find They Too Are Targets
Refinery 29 - The Traumatized 17-Year-Old Who Filmed George Floyd’s Killing Is Already Being Harassed
The Splendid Table - Mouthfeel: the effect of sensation and texture on the flavor of food
LA Times - Coronavirus leaves Washington farmers with a big problem: What do you do with a billion pounds of potatoes?
BBC - Coronavirus: Meat shortage leaves US farmers with 'mind-blowing' choice
Refinery29 - What K-Pop’s Beautiful Men Can Teach Us About Masculinity
Vogue - This Was the Decade That Hip-Hop Style Got Femme
CNN - She came out as transgender and got fired. Now her case might become a test for LGBTQ rights before the US Supreme Court.
The Atlantic - The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM
"The upshot of this research is neither especially feminist nor especially sad: It’s not that gender equality discourages girls from pursuing science. It’s that it allows them not to if they’re not interested."
Scientific American - Nice Brains Finish Last
"According to the model of “social value orientation,” humans can be placed into three rough categories, based on their reactions to economic inequity. 60% of people are pro-socials, meaning they prefer resources to be distributed equally among everyone. 30% are individualists, meaning they are primarily concerned with maximizing their own resources. Roughly 10% are competitive; to them, the most important outcome is that they have more than other people."
The Guardian - How the face mask became the world's most coveted commodity
"The pandemic has brought on a global shortage of masks, which is really a global shortage of one particular plastic inside the masks – a type of non-woven polypropylene that acts as a filter. In casual conversation, people in the mask business call the plastic “meltblown”, referring to how its plastic filaments are made. Meltblown goes into many things: jackets, nappies, filters in water purifiers and air conditioners. Masks are in short supply not because they’re difficult to produce, but because the meltblown industry is used to stable, long-term demand. It churns out just enough for its customers and no more. To install an assembly line of meltblown takes many months, even at the calmest of times; with demand now soaring, some companies supplying meltblown equipment are quoting timelines of up to two years to even deliver a new machine."
Buzzfeed - There Are Thousands Of Empty Hotel Rooms Across The US. Why Can’t Homeless People Use Them Through Quarantine?
J and I talked about this, how if he owned a hotel he would not let homeless stay there because they might ruin the rooms. I, of course, feel really bad about all those damn empty rooms and would want to give the homeless a place to stay. however, I would offer an incentive to help keep rooms clean. make it stupid dirty: I kick you out. keep it reasonable: I'll give you $10. keep it really nice: I've give you $20. or something like that. while yes, there are a lot of very messed up homeless who might trash the rooms, there are even more who would relish the opportunity to stay somewhere clean and private. during this time my hotel is making no money anyway, so yeah, I'd like the govt put people up. and i'd try to help them out too. j thought it was a pretty good idea :)
NYT - Leaders Are Crying on the Job. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.
"...it was common in the 18th century for upper-class men to cry — in fact, “they were viewed as brutes if they didn’t,” he said. It was only in the 19th century that the idea of male stoicism emerged, and it was not until the mid-20th century that tears were used to suggest that “candidates for public office were not manly or stable enough” to be there, Mr. Lutz said."
"women’s tear ducts are anatomically shallower, leading to spillover, which makes their crying more visible."
"“We have very narrow boundaries of acceptable emotional expression at work in general, and even more narrow for our leaders, male or female,” said Professor Grandey, the psychologist at Penn State. So narrow are those boundaries that they may boil down to the literal amount of tears. A tear or two — not a sob, Professor Grandey said. It also depends on what the emotion is about. Religious tears tend to be OK, as do heroic tears (think: war, sports). Patriotic tears are generally welcome, while personal tears are more risky."
