tinker tailor soldier spy (2011), stowaway (2021), amy tan: an unintended memoir, andre and his olive tree (2020), season 1 and 2 of Manifest,
jonathan zimmerman - too hot to handle: a global history of sex education, jim davidson and kevin vaughan - the ledge: an inspirational story of friendship and survival
BBC - A day in the life of a flavour inventor
Wired - Wait, Vaccine Lotteries Actually Work?
NYT - Farewell, Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy
BBC - Why being kind to others is good for your health
The Atlantic - Where Gender-Neutral Pronouns Come From
AP - Some Stolen US Military Guns Used in Violent Crimes
FiveThirtyEight - Why People Fall For Conspiracy Theories
Xtra - With queer co-parenting, the more is definitely the merrier
The Atlantic - The Psychological Benefits of Commuting to Work
The Atlantic - You Can Only Maintain So Many Close Friendships
Refinery29 - Here’s Why So Many People Are Fighting On Airplanes
The Atlantic - The Unspoken Wedge Between Parents and Grandparents
Crosscut - UW research shows racism and redlining hurt local wildlife, too
FiveThirtyEight - Why The Two-Party System Is Effing Up U.S. Democracy
The Atlantic - Research Proves It: There’s No Such Thing as Noblesse Oblige
Vogue - Meet New York’s Top Hand and Foot Model Agent (It’s a Real Thing!)
FiveThirtyEight - It’s Not Just Young White Liberals Who Are Leaving Religion
Bloomberg - Employees Are Quitting Instead of Giving Up Working From Home
LA Times - L.A. traffic behavior is changing. Is post-pandemic gridlock inevitable?
Smithsonian Magazine - The Senator Who Stood Up to Joseph McCarthy When No One Else Would
Mother Jones - An Incarcerated Artist Memorializes the “Forgotten” People Killed By COVID in Prison
Variety - How the Rembrandts’ ‘Friends’ Song Became the Most Iconic TV Theme of the ’90s… and Beyond
San Francisco Chronical - San Jose plans to be first U.S. city requiring firearms owners to pay back taxpayers for gun violence
New Statesman - CEOs are hugely expensive – why not automate them?
NYT - Meager Rewards for Workers, Exceptionally Rich Pay for C.E.O.s
digg - The 20 Companies With The Biggest Pay Gaps Between CEOs And The Average Worker
NYT - Want to Make Money Like a C.E.O.? Work for 275 Years
Atlas Obscura - The Grim, Depression-Era Origins of Dance Marathons
"3780 continuous hours" is almost 158 days straight?! which is like 5 months?!
NHK - China addresses food waste with “clean plate” campaign
LOVE!!! I am every time absolutely SHOCKED by home much food waste there is in China. it's SO upsetting to see all that food going to waste at the end of banquets. UGH...
The Atlantic - How Helicopter Parenting Can Cause Binge Drinking
I never understood the "let's go get drunk!" people. like, yeah, let's go drink, get tispy, have fun. but getting drunk is no fun. getting vomit on your stuff, losing your phone and wallet, waking up the next day hugging the toilet, walking around with a hangover, ugh, no thanks. I don't understand wanting to do that at all. (full disclosure. I've been throw up drunk three times, and black out drunk twice. each time, I knowingly drank too much, but also did not know what my limit was. these days I have a two drink per hour maximum. but that usually turns into a two drink an event maximum, ha.)
NYT - The Cost of Being an ‘Interchangeable Asian’
"There is a Japanese proverb that states, “The quacking duck gets shot.” It stands in stark contrast to the Western idiom “The squeaky wheel gets the oil.”"
"In one study citing national employment data from 2018, the Ascend Foundation found that white men were 192 percent more likely to become executives than Asian men, and white women were 134 percent more likely to become executives than Asian women. Another study, from 2013, found that while there were nearly as many Asian professionals as white professionals working at five big tech companies (Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, LinkedIn and Yahoo), white men and women were 154 percent more likely to be an executive than their Asian counterparts; Asian professionals tended to peak at middle management."
The Atlantic - The Drug That Could Break American Health Care
"The way that Medicare pays for drugs exacerbates the problem. The program is not structured to negotiate with manufacturers, which spurs drug companies to set high prices. Worse still, Medicare also pays prescribing physicians 6 percent of a drug’s average sales price, a practice that encourages physicians to prescribe more expensive drugs."
