made you look (2020), i care a lot (2020), the last cruise, the biggest little farm (2018), all 3 seasons of shtisel
martin brookes - fly: the unsung hero of 20th century science
NYT - 2020 The Year in Pictures
BBC - Why some people can deal with the cold
The Hustle - The economics of vending machines
Smithsonian - Why Is the Pentagon a Pentagon?
Collaborative Fund - Expiring vs. Permanent Skills
Medium - The Slow, Troubling Death of the Autopsy
The Atlantic - The New Comedy of American Decline
BBC - The daring plan to save the Arctic ice with glass
NPR - There Is Growing Segregation In Millennial Wealth
BBC News - The millions being made from cardboard theft
NYT - Parents Got More Time Off. Then the Backlash Started.
Atlas Obscura - Around the World in Rare and Beautiful Apples
Atlas Obscura - The Battle to Invent the Automatic Rice Cooker
NYT - Why Don’t Some TV Shows Sound the Way They Used To?
FiveThirtyEight - How Hatred Came To Dominate American Politics
CNN Style - Karate, Wonton, Chow Fun: The end of 'chop suey' fonts
NYT - How Lower-Income Americans Get Cheated on Property Taxes
Wired - Facial Hair Is Biologically Useless. So Why Do Humans Have It?
AP News - US Catholic bishops may press Biden to stop taking Communion
The Conversation - The white supremacist origins of modern marriage advice
WaPo - Consumers loved ‘all-natural’ — until Trix cereal lost its neon-bright glow
WaPo - Want to borrow that e-book from the library? Sorry, Amazon won’t let you.
The Atlantic - Why British Kids Went Back to School, and American Kids Did Not
Bloomberg - The 50 Richest Americans Are Worth as Much as the Poorest 165 Million
American Progress - Ending the Tipped Minimum Wage Will Reduce Poverty and Inequality
The Guardian - In a pandemic, billionaires are richer than ever. Why aren't they giving more?
Axios -Exclusive: 1 in 2 states at risk of "rigged maps," group warns
Sludge - 35 States at Risk of ‘Rigged’ Districts Due to Gerrymandering, Report Finds
Eater - Why Do Fast-Casual Restaurants Get a Pass on Appropriation?
Eater - Shibumi’s White Chef Takes Aim at Japanese Restaurants for Not Being Japanese Enough
I've had a bunch of tabs open for many weeks, all articles about the recent increased attacks on asian americans, but I just haven't had the capacity to read them. well, I finally did, and these are the ones that resonated the most.
BBC - The docility myth flattening Asian women’s careers
ABC News - Survey: 1 in 4 in US Have Asian-American Bias
The Nation - Anti-Asian Violence in America Is Rooted in US Empire
The Washington Post - The real reasons the U.S. became less racist toward Asian Americans
NPR - 'Am I Asian Enough?' Adoptees Struggle To Make Sense Of Spike In Anti-Asian Violence
Refinery 29 - Talking About Anti-Asian Hate With My Conservative Chinese Mother Isn’t Always Easy, But It’s Never Been More Important
Time - My White Adoptive Parents Struggled to See Me as Korean. Would They Have Understood My Anger at the Rise in Anti-Asian Violence?
Bloomberg - Never Stop Cleaning Like It’s 2020
but why? isn't the actual purpose of cleaning so that we don't get sick? and if we weren't getting sick before, even if we didn't clean often "enough", then why keep it up? having a reasonable amount germs around keeps our immune systems healthier and more prepared for "bad" germs.
