4.11.2023

april 2023

sleepless in seattle (1993)

vox - Fashion is just TikTok now
medium - AI and the American Smile
the atlantic - my daughter's white doll
eater - We’re Using Big Spoons Wrong
asterisk mag - America Doesn’t Know Tofu
the new yorker - the myth of the alpha wolf
BBC - Should we be eating three meals a day?
cnn - What it’s like to be a theme park designer|
wired - The People Who Still Love Renting DVDs From Netflix
npr - Fear of pregnancy: One teen's story in post-Roe America
vox - Prices at the supermarket keep rising. So do corporate profits.
she sight mag - In China, marriage rates are down, and bride prices are up
the conversation - Why more and more Americans are painting their lawns
eater - How an Exiled Mexican President Accidentally Invented Chewing Gum
the guardian - Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills, investigation shows
vanity fair - How the right's "open borders" myth might be fueling the migration crisis
npr - Cities may be debating reparations, but here's why most Americans oppose the idea
npr - Women now dominate the book business. Why there and not other creative industries?
the guardian - Mayor says Louisville shooter’s rifle ‘will be back on the streets’ under state law
grist - American cities want to recycle their plastic trash in Mexico. Critics call it ‘waste colonialism.’

fivethirtyeight - Way More Americans May Be Atheists Than We Thought
i have serious doubts that "roughly one-quarter (26 percent) of Americans likely do not believe in God." and beyond that, i feel like some percentage of people might believe in like some "supreme being" or "creator" type thing. altho, i guess i'm curious what types of atheism there are.