still reading a lot. stayed off social media for a few days following the election, hoping not to get too caught up the drama. got laid off in the middle of the month and was suddenly then too busy to read, somehow, lol, but starting watching documentaries again.
capital in the 21st century (2019), the crown (season 4), tell me who I am (2019), kids the ground, sacred cow, human nature
NYT - He Married a Sociopath. Me.
Vox - America’s gun problem, explained
Bloomberg - The Global Fertility Crash
Popular Science - How humans created color for thousands of years
Curbed - Why we can’t build small homes anymore
Vox - The case for hiring more police officers
The Atlantic - The Accidental Experiment That Changed Men’s Lives
Popular Mechanics - The Truth is in the Muck
NPR - Twin Birthrate Drops For First Time Since The '80s
Smithsonian Magazine - The Science Behind Your Cheap Wine
Vox - Coronavirus is exposing all of the weaknesses in the US health system
ESPN - The ugly, gory, bloody secret life of NHL dentists
BBC - Lifting the lid on Japan’s amazing bento boxes
The Atlantic - Why Everything Is Getting Louder
BBC - The cheap pen that changed writing forever
AP - Where you die can affect your chance of being an organ donor
Vox - The challenge of combating fake news in Asian American communities
The Atlantic - Why Most of America Is Terrible at Making Biscuits
Esquire - The Crushing Reality of Zoom School
NPR - When Shoplifting Is A Felony: Retailers Back Harsher Penalties For Store Theft
Business of Fashion - How the Puffy Vest Became a Symbol of Power
FiveThirtyEight - Why Are Great Athletes More Likely To Be Younger Siblings?
The Guardian - .Should we stop keeping pets? Why more and more ethicists say yes
Medium - Forget Shutdowns. It’s ‘Demand Shock’ That’s Killing Our Economy.
Marie Claire - Inside the Growing Movement of Women Who Wish They'd Never Had Kids
Inverse - Lab-Grown Meat Also Creates an Benefit: Ethical Zebra Burgers
Mental Floss - The Reason Why No Photography is Allowed in the Sistine Chapel
CNN - Crispy, spicy and hugely popular: Why chicken sandwiches are taking over America
Washington Post - To David Chang, the ‘ethnic’ food aisle is racist. Others say it’s convenient.
NPW - At The Mercy Of An App: Workers Feel The Instacart Squeeze
Art & Design - How the ‘Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World’ Got Its Logo
Harvard Business Review - A Short History of Golden Parachutes
FiveThirtyEight - What Should The Government Spend To Save A Life?
Marie Claire - To End Sexual Abuse in Churches, Dismantle Purity Culture
The Atlantic - How Pink Salt Took Over Millennial Kitchens
NPR - Now That More Americans Can Work From Anywhere, Many Are Planning To Move Away.
The Conversation - The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European
Bloomberg - Covid-19 Explodes the Myth That Women 'Opt' Out.
LA Times - Small turkeys are in high demand this Thanksgiving. Good luck finding one
National Geographic - Millennials and Gen Z are spreading coronavirus—but not because of parties and bars
Time - Low Wages, Sexual Harassment and Unreliable Tips. This Is Life in America’s Booming Service Industry
Refinery 29 - This Racist Form Of Voter Suppression Is Killing Democracy — & Nobody’s Talking About It
NBC - A fight over gifted education in New York is escalating a national debate over segregated schools
The Conversation - A quarter of US parents are unmarried – and that changes how much they invest in their kids
Bultimore Sun - John Waters bequeaths his art collection to Baltimore Museum of Art, whose bathrooms will be named in his honor :D
The Atlantic - Why IVF Has Divided France
Apartment Therapy - Why 70 Percent Alcohol Disinfects Better Than 91 Percent, According to a Microbiologist
The Atlantic - Why Some People Become Lifelong Readers
I think the definition of a reader needs to be revised. I don't read many books anymore, but I read hella articles. I mean, obviously, look at this blog. I only note the interesting articles I've read that month, but I read at least 5 times more than what is listed. so I read at least 100 articles, on fairly broad topics, every month. assuming each article averages 5 minutes long, that's 500 minutes which is over 8 hours of reading articles a month. it's not much, but I think it definitely qualifies me as a "reader" even if it's not books.
The Atlantic - What Happened to American Childhood?
"We know they affect nearly a third of adolescents ages 13 to 18, and that their median age of onset is 11, although some anxiety disorders start much earlier (the median age for a phobia to start is 7)."
The Atlantic - America's Health-Inequality Problem
"The U.S. has one of the largest income-based health disparities in the world... Only Chile and Portugal have a larger income-based gap in the health status of their citizens."
"Furthermore, while two-thirds of Americans report that “many” people in their country can’t access the health-care they need—10 percentage points higher than in any other country—Americans were less likely than average to say that it’s unfair that wealthier people can afford better health care. “We found that ethical concerns about the fairness of income-based health-care disparities were less common in the United States than in most of the other countries in our sample,” the authors write."
Vice - Brave: Corporations Stand In Solidarity With the Communities They Exploit
"In reality, the vast majority of these companies have business models explicitly designed to profit from what MLK called the “triple evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism.” Dignified jobs have always been at the forefront of racial justice campaigns for good reason: Poverty is just another form of violence—“the worst form,” according to Mahatma Gandhi."
