seaspiracy, the one (8 episode series), spotlight (2015), coded bias (2020), nail bomber: manhunt,
BBC - The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple
Hakai Magazine - The Unlikely Success of Fish Sticks
MSN - The man who didn't invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos
NPR - How Extremists Weaponize Irony To Spread Hate
Bloomberg - America Has Lost Its Taste for Iceberg Lettuce
Ars Technica - Why online voting is harder than online banking
NYT - As Covid-19 Devastates India, Deaths Go Undercounted
OZY - She's Taking on 'Wigging' and Whitewashing in Hollywood Stunts
Smithsonian Magazine - The Unmistakable Black Roots of ‘Sesame Street’
New Scientist - Birds use cigarette butts for chemical warfare against ticks
The Hustle - Why it’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting
Bloomberg - Charging 589% Interest in the Pandemic Is a Booming Business
Dangerous Minds - Gorillas Make Up 'Little Food Songs' While They Eat
The Conversation - How Where You’re Born Influences the Person You Become
Forbes - The Billionaire Who Wanted To Die Broke . . . Is Now Officially Broke
The Atlantic - The Body’s Most Embarrassing Organ Is an Evolutionary Marvel
Fast Company - Car design is about to change forever. This video encapsulates how
The Conversation - The forgotten origins of the modern gay rights movement in WWI
NY Post - Less than half of NYPD cops have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine
NPR - 6 Charts That Dismantle The Trope Of Asian Americans As A Model Minority
The Guardian - What Is the Mysterious ‘Global Hum’ – and Is It Simply Noise Pollution?
LA Times - Dwayne Johnson accounts for a third of all API movie leads as study finds sad stats
Upworthy - Women shared how they make sexist men explain their nasty jokes, and it's so satisfying
Smithsonian Magazine - The Man Who Brought the Swastika to Germany, and How the Nazis Stole It
Teen Vogue - Overdose Awareness Day: How Drug Overdoses and White Supremacy Are Linked in the U.S.
Medium - Why the Hybrid Workforce of the Future Depends on the ‘Geriatric Millennial’
Medium - Why I Call Myself a “Geriatric Millennial” — and Why Our Micro-Generation Matters
Axios - How CEOs got raises amid COVID
Institute for Policy Studies - Pandemic Pay Plunder
NYT - See Fewer People. Take Fewer Showers.
I hope this trend lasts! let's all save water and build up our immune system and microbiomes folks! personally, I shower 2-3 times a week if I'm not doing anything. my hair starts getting really greasy looking after 3 days. obviously, if I work out, go to the beach, do something dirty, I'll shower in between. body odor doesn't seem to be much of an issue either. I was never consistent with deodorant and gave it up completely like 10 years ago and have never had anyone complain.
Brain Pickings - The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior
"All human activity is prompted by desire. There is a wholly fallacious theory advanced by some earnest moralists to the effect that it is possible to resist desire in the interests of duty and moral principle. I say this is fallacious, not because no man ever acts from a sense of duty, but because duty has no hold on him unless he desires to be dutiful. If you wish to know what men will do, you must know not only, or principally, their material circumstances, but rather the whole system of their desires with their relative strengths."
"Man differs from other animals in one very important respect, and that is that he has some desires which are, so to speak, infinite, which can never be fully gratified, and which would keep him restless even in Paradise. The boa constrictor, when he has had an adequate meal, goes to sleep, and does not wake until he needs another meal. Human beings, for the most part, are not like this."
The Root - A Judge Asked Harvard to Find Out Why So Many Black People Were In Prison. They Could Only Find 1 Answer: Systemic Racism
"The researchers also couldn’t figure out why Black people are always initially charged with more serious crimes than white people. The easiest explanation was that Black suspects commit worse crimes than white people, but the data disproved that assumption. Then, they hypothesized that prosecutors may be overzealous when it came to convicting violent cases but that proved not to be the case. When all was said and done, Black people were arrested more often, had higher bail and received harsher sentences. But when they examined convictions, they discovered that Black people were surprisingly less likely to be convicted than white people. Essentially, according to the researchers, a white person has to commit an egregious offense to wind up behind bars while all a Black person has to do is...well, be a Black person."
Vice - Why Do So Many Adult Men Keep Their Mattresses On The Floor?
when I was dating, I wouldn't say that I judged, but I definitely noticed bed stuff. I never asked the one guy with the mattress on the floor why he didn't have a frame or even a box spring, but then, he seemed really poor, so I figured it was that. the thing I actually really noticed was lack of headboards. I think only one person had a headboard, and he was also the only one with actual PLANTS (two small trees!!!) in his room. he had a very adult room. but then, he also had the most money. j had a box spring, and a frame, and art!! but no headboard. he was the only one I asked. and he said he never liked them. personally, when I bought my first bed. it wasn't even a consideration NOT to have one. I bought a headboard that came attached to the frame. and chose a mattress that didn't need a box spring. we're on that same bed now, lol, a full. which is too small but has fit both of our too small bedrooms just fine. I'll be happy to upgrade to something bigger someday, tho honestly, with j's schedule, we barely sleep together now, except for my daily nap with him in the afternoons.
