December 2022

extra movies this month because my dad's amazon prime account was expiring so we took the opportunity to clear out our watchlist a little bit.

Sound of metal (2019), coming 2 america (2021), the sound of 007, Catherine called birdy, uncorked (2020), legends of the fall (1994), the falls (2021), notting hill (1999)

taste - Banchan Is Everything
historynet - How did NORAD Start Tracking Santa
atlas obscura - The ‘Perpetual Broths’ That Simmer For Decades
euronews - It's official: France bans short haul domestic flights in favour of train travel
the guardian - ‘China’s hottest woman’: the driving force behind crunchy chilli sensation Lao Gan Ma
msn - Millions of people have been watching TikToks of a man kicking a rock down the street every day, and here's why

newsweek - Colorado Schools Issuing Buckets, Kitty Litter For Students to Go to the Bathroom During Lockdowns, School Shootings

the guardian - South Korea has almost zero food waste. Here’s what the US can learn
"In 1996, South Korea recycled just 2.6% of its food waste. Today, South Korea recycles close to 100% annually."
"In the United States, where most food waste still ends up in landfills – the third largest source of methane in the country"

november 2022

long trans atlantic flights means movies!
jurassic park: dominion, lightyear, nope, unbearable weight of massive talent, brian and charles, little white lies (2014)

basically no reading tho, lol

the Takeout - How One Man Changed the Way We Drink Wine
the Hustle - The fight to build more public bathrooms in America
Freakanomics - The Unintended Consequences of Working from Home
Quartz - Who should you trust? Psychologists have a surprising answer
World Economic Forum - These are all the world's major religions in one map
NBC - Don't forget to declare income from stolen goods and illegal activities, IRS says
NPR - 50 years ago, 'The Electric Company' used comedy to boost kids' reading skills
Fatherly - Study Shows Moms Who Earn More Than Dads Do More of the Housework
WCVB - Bees unleashed in attack on deputies during eviction enforcement, Hampden County sheriff says

daily news - NYPD will issue easier-to-fire guns to new recruits, aiming for improved accuracy

the atlantic - The Hidden Costs of Living Alone
"the share of American adults who aren’t married and don’t live with a romantic partner has also been growing, having jumped from 29 percent in 1990 to 38 percent in 2019"

nautilus - The Case for Professors of Stupidity
"On this past International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I reread a bit of Bertrand Russell. In 1933, dismayed at the Nazification of Germany, the philosopher wrote “The Triumph of Stupidity,” attributing the rise of Adolf Hitler to the organized fervor of stupid and brutal people—two qualities, he noted, that “usually go together.” He went on to make one of his most famous observations, that the “fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”"
David Krakauer, the President of the Santa Fe Institute - "...stupidity is not simply the opposite of intelligence. “Stupidity is using a rule where adding more data doesn’t improve your chances of getting [a problem] right,” Krakauer said. “In fact, it makes it more likely you’ll get it wrong.” "

October 2022

Generation wealth (2018), border (2018), spiderhead

lot less reading this month. j has been working fewer nights, i've been more stressed with work, and we're leaving for italy soon so i've been prepping for that.

Kaiser - What you need to know about GMOs
Vox - You’re going back to the office. Your boss isn’t.
KTLA - New law allows Californians to legally jaywalk
the Hustle - The family that built a ballpark nachos monopoly
NYT - The $25,000 Rookie Dinner Has N.F.L. Players Divided
Today - You have to see this family’s hilarious baby tooth tradition to believe it
MIT Technology Review - What happens when you donate your body to science
Refinery29 - I’m A Black Woman Who Wears Hair Extensions — But Is It Ever Ethical?
ABC - Qatar's airport strip-searching incident shocked Australia. Here's what we know
NPR - John Cena sets a new Guinness World record by granting 650 Make-A-Wish wishes
Vulture - The Mixed Metaphor Why does the half-Asian, half-white protagonist make us so anxious?
GQ - Inside British newsrooms on the day Queen Elizabeth II died: secret codes, chaos and black ties
City & State - Manhattan congressional candidate publishes a porn video to highlight his sex positive platform

september 2022

rumor has it (2005), straight up (2020), disobedience (2017), the two popes (2019), private life 2018), 

eater - the "jiro" filter
NYT - ‘The Golden Age of Thrifting Is Over’
mornings - The Most Common Dream in Every Country
taste - Putting the Chips Back in Chocolate Chip Cookies
wired - The Most Powerful Story The Onion Ever Wrote
taste - Bonne Maman Is Every Jam, Everywhere, All at Once
bbc - Prestatyn girl makes homeless blankets from crisp packets
sf gate - Bay Area squirrels are splooting amid recent heat wave
gastro obscura - Remembering When America Banned Sliced Bread
wired - These Trees Are Spreading North in Alaska. That’s Not Good
scoop - Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need
new atlas - Genetically modified purple tomato approved by US regulators
popular science - We Finally Know Why We Grow Wisdom Teeth as Adults
teen vogue - Australia Has Mandatory Voting, and Election Days Are a Party
wired - 130-Year-Old Menus Show How Climate Change Affects What We Eat
dmarge - Cruise Ship Graveyards: Where The World’s Biggest Boats Go To Die
vice - Chick-fil-A Is Asking for 'Volunteers' to Work for 5 Chicken Sandwiches Per Hour
the guardian - Beat the Clock: The Surprising Psychology Behind Being Perpetually Late
the tribune - California will allow human composting as alternative to cremation or burial
mother jones - The Curry Trap: How a Continent’s Worth of Food Got Mashed Into One Word
quartz - Nearly 400 Years Later, the Fork Remains at the Center of American Dining Controversy
vanity fair - Trump Wanted to Trade Puerto Rico for Greenland, and Yes, He Was Completely Serious
phys.org - The expansion of capitalism led to a deterioration in human welfare, according to new study
insider - The taste of kale made unborn babies grimace, but they smiled at carrots, a new imaging study found

august 2022

marcel the shell with shoes on, the little hours (2017), thor: love and thunder

both a little more and a little less time for reading this month, but for a while i sorted my pocket so that the shortest articles were up top since i wanted to make a dent in my list. i don't know how many articles i have saved in here, but probably thousands? :( in playing with the sorting function tho, i saw that i apparently starting using pocket in 2016. and sorting it from oldest saved to newest meant that there were a lot of articles that i could delete since i was no longer interested in them, actually. 

fivethirtyeight - The Gender Orgasm Gap
cnn - Sprite will no longer be sold in green bottles
nyt - Online Reviews? Researchers Give Them a Low Rating
the hustle - The people making millions off Listerine royalties
the telegraph - How Generation Z became obsessed with subtitles
lifehacker - Your Credit Score Is Linked to Your Chance of Divorce
axios - California's crack-of-dawn school ban could set a national trend
BBC news - The country where having a pet could soon land you in jail
good - Men are paid more than women - even when they're on parental leave
wapo - Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war, again. Guess who’s winning?
quartz - Reusable plastic shopping bags are actually making the problem worse, not better
metro - Twins who married twins share how their sons are genetically brothers as well as cousins
nbc los angeles - Los Angeles Gives Savings Accounts with $50 to All LAUSD First Grade Students
nbc news - Many Gen Zers don’t use Google. Here’s why they prefer to search on TikTok and Instagram.
popular science - People With Extreme Political Views Have Trouble Thinking About Their Own Thinking
god - Texas Law Requires ‘In God We Trust’ Displays In Schools So Atheist Sends Arabic Version

july 2022

less reading this month. db stuff, prepping to make a quilt that I'm hand dying with avocado pits, reorganizing the apartment after we sold a few things, j mostly working days.

Westworld (1973), vanilla sky (2001), The Talented Mr Ripley (1999), American Girl (2021), persuasion, who we are: a chronicle of racism in america

NYT - Anatomy of a Product Placement
The Atlantic - It’s All So … Premiocre
NYT - How I Became a Pathological Liar
Kron - California has $600M in unclaimed cans and bottles
CNN - Nobody likes self-checkout. Here's why it's everywhere
Vice - Christian Nationalism Drove These People Out of Their Churches
The New Yorker - The Weird, Analog Delights of Foley Sound Effects
Mel - Inside the World of Investigators Who Know You've Faked Your Death
Life Hacker - The Science Behind Why You Feel Sick When You Try to Read in the Car
Jacobin - The Military Feeds on the Student Debt Crisis With False Promises to Recruits
The Guardian - Eat the rich! Why millennials and generation Z have turned their backs on capitalism
19th News - Sex ed was in trouble before Roe v. Wade’s reversal. Now the curriculum matters even more.
My Modern Met - The Story Behind the Original Cover of ‘The Great Gatsby’ and the Artist Who Created It

Bustle - When Is History Ever Too "Female Focused"?
The Guardian - Why do women talk so much? You asked Google – here’s the answer

june 2022

downton abbey: a new era, roadrunner: a film about Anthony bourdain (2021), scanners (1981), seven years in tibet (1997), old (2021)

a book, a book, I've finished a book!
Kurt Kohlstedt and Roman Mars - The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design  

Vox - The college dorm shopping industrial complex is real
Bon Appetit - We Need to Stop Talking About Tipping Fatigue
Axios - Abortions have been increasing since 2017, new data shows
CNN Business - How we got addicted to using Q-tips the wrong way
Nature - The urine revolution: how recycling pee could help to save the world
Retail Brew - Smell that? Scents are a key part of a store’s identity, even in Covid
NPR - A California police department offered gas money for unwanted guns. It ran out
Independent - I’m Swedish – it’s true that we don’t serve food to guests. What’s the problem?
The Guardian - It’s not beige, it’s not grey: it’s greige – and it’s why all our houses look the same
HuffPost - Ashley Del Valle, Transgender Woman, Was Jailed As A Man After Allegedly Exposing Breasts
Yahoo News - The end of Korean BBQ in L.A.? What the gas stove ban means for your fave restaurants
Jalopnik - Naked Florida Couple Crashes into FedEx Truck While Doing Things We Can't Explicitly Describe in a Headline

The Guardian - Experience: my face became a meme
The Guardian - ‘The worst person you know’: the man who unwittingly became a meme

ProPublica - Why 18-Year-Olds in Texas Can Buy AR-15s but Not Handguns
Vanity Fair - A Disturbing Percentage of Republicans Think Mass Shootings are Just Something We Have to Accept

The Verge - File Not Found

may 2022

Dear Ex (誰先愛上他的), ben hur (1959), a sun (2019)

The Atlantic - What Alito Got Right
Culture Study - The Age of Houseplants

BBC - The animals that detect disasters
The Atlantic - How Fake Spies Ruin Real Intelligence
Taste - The Tenacious Quest to Find the World’s Best Rice

BuzzFeed News - He Was 5'7". After Surgery, He’ll Be 5'10".
WaPo - Censorship battles’ new frontier: Your public library

NYT - Are You Successful? If So, You’ve Already Won the Lottery
NYT - In Sweden, an Experiment Turns Shorter Workdays Into Bigger Gains

USA Today - A Reno man donated his kidney. He received a $13,064 bill in return

The Atlantic - Our Highways Are an Ever-Expanding Museum of America’s Wars

NYT - A Landlord ‘Underestimated’ His Tenants. Now They Could Own the Building.

LA Times - Why do so many L.A. apartments come without fridges? Inside the chilling mystery

National Review - China Censors Its Own National Anthem as Lockdown-Enforcement Measure
CTV News - Woman with disabilities nears medically assisted death after futile bid for affordable housing

Calgary Herald - Canadian astronauts no longer free to rob and kill with abandon in space or on the moon
SF Gate - 'Buy now, pay later' is sending the TikTok generation spiraling into debt, popularized by San Francisco tech firms
San Fransisco Chronical - She sold her home for nearly half its $1 million value. The ‘pay it forward’ deal is a new tactic in the Bay Area’s housing crisis
FiveThirtyEight - Prisons, Water Infrastructure And Broadband: Where States Are Spending Their Pandemic Relief Funding

Vox - Gen Z does not dream of labor

Galaxy Brain - What If People Don’t Want 'A Career?'

Atlas Obscura - The Surprising, Overlooked Artistry of Fruit Stickers

Fast Company - The delightful history of fruit stickers, the world’s tiniest canvases for graphic design

april 2022

j is now on the 4/10 schedule (10 hour shifts,4 days a week) and some night so I have more time to myself to read and do whatever. i have also found a trove of chinese (I think mostly taiwanese) movies on netflix which I intend to get thru.

the lobster (2015), everything everywhere all at once, Little Big Women (孤味) (2020) couple random netflix documentaries

Sapiens - Untangling Race From Hair
Slate - Stop Venting! It Doesn’t Work.
Harper's Bazaar - Mommies Who Mushroom
ESPN - The friendship that divides the NBA
The Atlantic - Community Input Is Bad, Actually
NYT - Trash or Recycling? Why Plastic Keeps Us Guessing
Racked - The Death of the Great American Sporting Goods Store
Fatherly - How to Make Better Joint Decisions With Your Partner
LA Times - As inflation soars, how is AriZona iced tea still 99 cents?
The Guardian - Elon Musk’s vision for the internet is dangerous nonsense
Quartz - How companies are hiding inflation without charging you more
The New Yorker - Joe Manchin Can’t Shoot Down the Logic of a Wealth Tax
Refinery29 - “I Don’t Deserve To Be Burned Out.” How Capitalism Complicates Rest
FiveThirtyEight - Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women
FiveThirtyEight - Congress Found An Easy Way To Fix Child Poverty. Then It Walked Away.

Rewire News Group - When a Miscarriage Becomes a Jail Sentence

NYT - No Sound, No Fury, No Marriage
The Atlantic - The Marriage Lesson That I Learned Too Late

march 2022

barely any reading this month. the "breakup," birthday, j's schedule moving to days, associated lifestyle changes have severely cut down on my free time. I have tho, been listening to a lot of podcasts, especially EconTalk, which, while very interesting, always manages to lull me sleep after about 20 minutes.  

fantastic beasts: the crimes of grindelwald, hating peter tatchell

The Atlantic - The Package Is the Message
Undark - Why Birth Control Side Effects Have Eluded Science
Inc. - 70 Percent of Employees Are Saying 'No, Thanks' to a Promotion. Here's What They Want Instead

february 2022

incredibly little reading this month. we went away for an extended weekend, it was a shorth month, and i watched love is blind, season two.

tinder swindler, the power of the dog, feminists: what were they thinking (2018), i lost my body (2019)

BBC - Why the Dutch embrace floating homes
Wired - Online Shopping Is Reshaping Real-World Cities
Teen Vogue - Noncitizen Voting: New York Should Be an Example for Other States
Wired - In the 2008 Olympics, Beijing Felt Like an Open Door. In 2022, It's Closed
Teen Vogue - Is Slavery Still Legal in the U.S.? Yes, Under the 13th Amendment Exception
MSN - 5 Olympic skiers disqualified for baggy outfits: 'They destroyed women’s ski jumping'
USA Today - A priest incorrectly performed thousands of baptisms for decades – by changing one word
Daily Mail - £740,000 painting is ruined after 'bored' security guard draws eyes on faceless figures on his first day in the job at Russian gallery

January 2022

matrix resurrections, i am not your negro (2016), harry potter reunion, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), misha and the wolves, harry potter 3, harry potter 5, there's something in the water (2019), 9 to 5: the story of a movement (2020), harry potter 6, harry potter 7, reversing roe (2018), the rachel divide (2018), one of us (2017)

why so much harry potter? lol, j joe jas rewatched them all after watching the HBO reunion special which he said he didn't really care to watch anyway. I've watched a few with him, obviously.

less reading this month. have been very very busy at work so have spent a lot of nights either working or completely zoned out.

Following Data - How Much Americans Make
The Atlantic - Is Old Music Killing New Music?
The Atlantic - The Future of Work Is a 60-Year Career
BBC News - Kenyan vigilantes taking on avocado gangs
The Smithsonian - How the Potato Chip Took Over America
The Atlantic - We Live By a Unit of Time That Doesn’t Make Sense
Food Tank - Opinion | France’s Ban on Food Waste Three Years Later
Gallup - U.S. Charitable Donations Rebound; Volunteering Still Down
Popular Science - The ultimate guide to reusing and buying N95 masks
University of California - Spoiler alert: spoilers make you enjoy stories more
Food52 - Italians Avoided Pizza for Centuries—Tourism Changed Everything
The Guardian - Polar bears move into abandoned Arctic weather station – photo essay
CBS Sacramento - California College Students Will Be Offered $10K For Public Service
YouGov - More than half of Americans support a maximum age limit for elected officials
Toronto Star - Israel capped CEO pay for banking execs at $1 million. Its unique experiment could work here, too
Market Watch - Up to three-quarters of the $800 billion in disbursed PPP funds flowed to business owners instead of workers, study finds

Forbes - Billionaire Mark Cuban Opens Online Pharmacy To Provide Affordable Generic Drugs
awesome!!! still hate that he attached his name to it tho. could've easily picked something less to do with his ego, more to do with his point