i rediscovered tv this month and have therefore stopped reading, lol.
safety not guarenteed (2012), how to change the world (2015), sky ladder: the art of cai guo-qiang (2016), ramen heads (2017), i feel pretty (2018), plus one (2019), last christmas (2019), happiest season, year one (2009), palm springs, neat: the story of bourbon (2018), crazy not insane
NYT Magazine - Taste Test
NYT - The Real Estate Collapse of 2020
The Verge - Nature is not healing
BBC - The Family With No Fingerprints
Lifehacker - How They Made a Vaccine So Fast
Food 52 - The Lonely Legacy of Spam
Wired - The Devastating Allure of Medical Miracles
Huffington Post - The Myth of the Ethical Shopper
Atlas Obscura - How a White Lie Gave Japan KFC for Christmas
Washington Post - Is It Okay to Laugh at Florida Man?
Texas Monthly - How the Unchecked Power of Judges Is Hurting Poor Texans
Quartz - Experts are sounding the alarm about the dangers of gas stoves
Politico - Washington's Secret to the Perfect Zoom Bookshelf? Buy It Wholesale.
NPR - You Want To Move? Some Cities Will Pay You $10000 to Move There
Politico - Flint Has Clean Water Now. Why Won't People Drink It?
Vanity Fair - Inside the Very Big, Very Controversial Business of Dog Cloning
NPR - 'Toxic Individualism': Pandemic Politics Driving Health Care Workers From Small Towns.
The Guardian - The year of Karen: how a meme changed the way Americans talked about racism
Study International - More money goes into the US prison system than it does on education
Los Angeles Magazine - The Homeless Republic of Echo Park: life (and death) in L. A. 's fastest growing tent city.
Time - The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure.
Pro Publica - The Pandemic Hasn’t Stopped This School District From Suing Parents Over Unpaid Textbook Fees
WTF schools charge students for textbook rentals? that's total bullshit.
"Indiana is one of at least nine states that allow school districts to charge fees for required textbooks, according to the Education Commission of the States, a national education policy organization."
"Education advocates say that the state’s constitution guarantees a “tuition-free” education, not a free education."
Washington Post - As organized religion shrinks, faith-based charities worry about the future
As more people turn away from organized religion, churches and other worship communities face a struggle to keep marshaling their corps of volunteers. Churchgoers, mostly elderly, reliably turn up to staff food banks, clean up after hurricanes, and cook hot meals after natural disasters. Of the 74 groups that belong to the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, 40 are faith organizations. But the white Christian denominations to which most Americans used to belong are dwindling, and many younger people who consider themselves spiritual but unaffiliated will not replenish the supply of church volunteers and have no comparable institution around which to organize.
fivethirtyeight - Women Won The Right To Vote 100 Years Ago. They Didn’t Start Voting Differently From Men Until 1980.
Pew Research - Men and women in the U.S. continue to differ in voter turnout rate, party identification
"about half of U.S. adults (49%) – including 52% of men and 46% of women – say granting women the right to vote has been the most important milestone in advancing the position of women in the country"
