more reading this month, did a week-long road trip from boston back home, then spent another few days in norcal in a hotel room while trying to find housing.
his three daughters, memoir of a snail, the whale (2022), half of her (2013) - i started then put it down, then it went away from hbo max :(
taste - Kimbap, Never “Korean Sushi”
vox - How Big Toilet Paper dupes us all
marie claire - Fashion Is Losing the Middle Ground
BBC future - The Reasons Humans Started Kissing
wired - The US Has a Cloned Sheep Contraband Problem
taste - How America Warmed Up to Cold Grocery-Store Sushi
hakai news - Weather Forecasting Is Deadly for Marine Wildlife
serious eats - Cherry vs. Grape Tomatoes: What's the Difference?
garden & gun - She’s One of Florida’s Most Lethal Python Hunters
BBC - These beaches are among LA's favourites. But they're fake
npr - When her key broke in the ignition, a car thief saved the day
sky news - Vatican unveils new cartoon mascot for Catholic Church
afar - This Is Where Cruise Ships Go to Die. Meet the Man Saving Them
pocket - Letters of the Damned: Exorcising the Curse of the Petrified Forest
BBC news - Cold Weather: What Does an Unheated Room Do to Your Body?
mental floss - How Uncrustables Reinvented the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
vox - 43 lab monkeys escaped in South Carolina. They have a legal claim to freedom.
wired - California Is Flooding School Cafeterias With Vegan Meals—and Kids Like It
Bloomberg Business - How Bogg Bags, the Crocs of Totes, Won Over America’s Moms
wired - Thousands of People Are Cloning Their Dead Pets. This Is the Woman They Call First.
la times - L.A. isn’t a walking city? The man behind Great Los Angeles Walk would like a word
boston magazine - Inside the New World of Luxury Kids’ Parties, Where Parents Are Plus-Ones
fortune - Gen Z and millennials proudly wear ‘lab-grown’ diamonds, oblivious to the fact they’re made from burning coal in China and India
the hustle - The economics of free lunch
vox - The astonishing rise of gray divorce
19th news - Pay first, deliver later: Some pregnant people are being asked to prepay for their baby
"Of the 100 million U.S. people with health care debt, 12 percent attribute at least some of it to maternity care, according to a 2022 KFF poll."
"There is a growing body of research that has found indigenous language revitalisation associated with higher indicators of physical and mental wellbeing. Studies have found indigenous language use in North America to correlate with lower rates of cigarette use in the population, higher levels of physical and mental wellness indicators and lower levels of diabetes, for example.
"Meanwhile, a study in British Columbia, Canada found that youth suicide was six times higher in indigenous communities where less than 50% of the members were conversationally fluent in their native language. In aboriginal and Torres Strait communities of Australia, indigenous language speakers exhibit lower rates of binge drinking and illegal drug use. "Language shift is often associated with historical trauma from colonisation or oppression, and with loss of self-worth," says Julia Sallabank, professor of language policy and revitalisation at University of London. "So we can try to turn this round: reclaiming one's language and cultural identity can be empowering, at both personal and community level."
