AKA Jane Roe, bottle shock (2008), Figure It Out on the Hayduke Trail (2008), Ken burns: the central Park five (2013), love me (2015), just eat it: a food waste story (2014), magnetic (2018), the history time travel (2014)
The Atlantic - The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying
Columbia Journalism Review - Black and white: why capitalization matters
NPR - 1 In 4 Americans Thinks The Sun Goes Around The Earth
Elle - It Does Not Matter If You Are Good
Scientific American - Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News
The Guardian - Why are Africa's coronavirus successes being overlooked
Buzzfeed - I Don't Feel Like Buying Stuff Anymore
Vogue - She Does, He Doesn’t: The Gender Divide in Mask-Wearing
Marker - Inside the Flour Company Supplying America’s Sudden Baking Obsession
Mental Floss - Henry Johnson, the One-Man Army Who Fought Off Dozens of German Soldiers During World War I
Citylab - Who Owns a Home in America, in 12 Charts
Sup News - A brief history of typeface and its online evolution
Narratively - What I Learned About Life at a Company That Deals in Dead Bodies
Yahoo - How a 'rogue' employee forced NFL, Goodell into new Black Lives Matter stance
Washington Post - The need to go is a big barrier to going out. Why public bathrooms are a stumbling block for reopening.
The Conversation - The tooth fairy as an essential worker in a child's world of wonder.
NYT - What the pandemic reveals about the male ego
Mother Jones - “Qualified Immunity” Gives Abusive Cops a Free Pass. Will the Supreme Court End It?
WKMS - She Was Generous. She Was Also Racist. Should This Ballpark Carry Her Name?
Atlantic - The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying
Mental Floss - There's a Wire Above Manhattan That You've Probably Never Noticed.
The Atlantic - You're Showering Too Much - The Atlantic
SF Chronicle - California effort to restore affirmative action divides Asian Americans
Atlas Obscura - The Man Who Recorded, Tamed and Then Sold Nature Sounds to America
The Conversation - Why is the U.S. unwilling to pay for good public transportation?
NYT - Nearly Half of Men Say They Do Most of the Home Schooling. 3 Percent of Women Agree.
The Conversation - Why the German language has so many great words
Market Watch - 5 mistakes parents make when giving kids an allowance
fivethirtyeight - What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money
Mother Jones - The Cruise Industry Is Donald Trump Personified
Harvard Business Review - What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures
Bloomberg - This May Be the World's Best Prison Food
Mother Jones - The Anti-Vax Movement’s Radical Shift From Crunchy Granola Purists to Far-Right Crusaders
BBC - The mystery of why there are more women vegans
BBC - The hidden biases that drive anti-vegan hatred
Domino - Whoa: This Is What Happens to Your Body When You Drink Enough Water
"Though the eight-cup rule is popular, there is no one-size-fits-all number. Instead, it’s more of an individual approach. The new general rule of thumb is half your weight in ounces, according to Dr. Cohen. For example, if you weigh 120 pounds, you need to drink 60 ounces of water a day."
The New Yorker - What Would Happen If G.P.S. Failed?
"The United States Air Force, which runs the G.P.S. Master Control Station, in Colorado, calls G.P.S. “the world’s only global utility.” Wholly owned by the U.S. government, the system is available free to everyone, everywhere..."
NY Times - The Man Who Coaches Husbands on How to Avoid Divorce
"Instead of listening to their parener, digesting the information and caring about why they feel bad, I've found that guys invest their energy in one of three ways: they dispute the facts of the story their partner just told; agree with the facts, but believe their partner is overreacting; or defend their actions by explaining why they did it. In all cases, his partner's feelings are invalid."
The Atlantic - Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should
“This is an extraordinary failure of leadership in the United States,” Nancy Koehn, a historian at the Harvard Business School who studies crisis leadership, told me. “At the national level, there’s been a complete abdication by the government to help people make choices and adopt behaviors.”
"Koehn quoted David Foster Wallace’s definition of leadership to me: “A real leader is somebody who … can get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.” But now, when good leadership is absent, we have to try to do the better, harder things anyway."
The Atlantic - The Dudes Who Won’t Wear Masks
"Still, trying to shame people into healthier behavior generally doesn’t work—and actually can make things worse.
Public-health professionals have learned this lesson before. In 1987, Congress banned the use of federal funds for HIV-prevention campaigns that might “promote or encourage, directly or indirectly, homosexual activities.” As a result, public-health campaigns avoided sex-positive imagery and messaging, and instead associated condom use with virtue and condomless sex with irresponsibility, disease, and death. According to one particularly foreboding poster, which featured an image of a gravestone: “A bad reputation isn’t all you can get from sleeping around.” But those moralistic, fear-mongering health messages often fell flat. Other HIV-prevention campaigns began to adopt a harm-reduction approach, which empathizes with people’s basic human needs and offers them strategies to limit potential dangers. For some men, condoms got in the way of what they valued most about sex: pleasure and intimacy. Not surprisingly, HIV-prevention campaigns that put pleasure and intimacy at the center of their safer-sex messaging tended to work."
"And, most of all, masks are a constant reminder of what Americans so desperately want to forget: that despite all of our sacrifices, the pandemic hasn’t gone anywhere."
"Just like the buckets of free condoms stationed in gay bars, masks need to be dispensed where they’re needed most: at the front of every bus and the entrance to every airport, grocery store, and workplace. Masks should become ubiquitous, but distribution should begin in areas where the coronavirus has hit hardest, including black and Latino neighborhoods."
