april 2025

amir d aczel - the jesuit and the skull: teilhard de chardin, evolution, and the search for the peking man

march 2025

flight from lax to kona, so movie time! also j and i are sharing a single car again and he's working 10 hour day shifts so I've been staying in more and researching soooo many trips (i have movies playing in the background)

conclave [2024], gladiator II [2024], spencer [2021], mickey 17, interstellar [2014], i used to be funny [2024], an affair to remember [1957], on the basis of sex [2018], unbearable weight of massive talent [2022], barbie [2023]

February 2025

not much reading of articles this month since i focused on books. we also moved from stockton back home, and were there for 10 days. tried to get thru a few atlantic articles on my laptop since i've only signed into my account on that device.

the best American food writing 2022

the age of adaline [2015], Shiva baby [2020], joy: the birth of ivf [2024], kind of pregnant 

the atlantic - the other fear of the founders
the atlantic - the coming democratic baby bust
the atlantic - how the woke right replaced the woke left
the atlantic - how covid pushed a generation of young people to the right
the atlantic - what will happen if the trump administration defies a court order
the guardian - why parents are getting angrier: children are bored out of their skulls with real life

january 2025

remembered the whole listening to articles thing so got thru a few more than I thought i would. j's bother n visited for a bit, g did as well. plus i've picked up a new craft: photo embroidery, and all my sewing machine parts came in too!

nosferatu, furiosa

taste - Numb, Not Burn
eater - How to Feed the Olympics
nyt - She Is in Love With ChatGPT
ny post - Everything we love to eat is a scam
the walrus - Online Shopping Can’t Be Trusted
the hustle - Why America has so many big houses
bbc - Lonnie Johnson: The father of the Super Soaker
fast company - How Comic Sans became the Crocs of fonts
vanity fair - The Wizard of Oz: Five Appalling On-Set Stories
ifl science - Why Is There So Much Air In Potato Chip Packets?
mental floss - When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?
treehugger - New Zealand's Best Recyclers Now Get a Gold Star
climate change communication - Global Warming’s Six Americas
the hustle - How Nuns Got Squeezed Out of the Communion Wafer Business
vox - I care a lot about climate change. Does that mean I can never ever fly?
grunion - On the Water: Here’s the deal with the concrete piles in Alamitos Bay
the conversation - Here’s the Real Reason to Turn on Airplane Mode When You Fly
the guardian - Meet the seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security
popular mechanics - Why Our Bodies Have Gotten Colder with Each Passing Decade
bbc - 'It's a unique language spoken by two people': The twins who created their own language
irish news - A woman who can pop her eyes out of her head has answered the internet’s questions
ap news - He is credited with one of history’s most indelible photos. A new documentary questions who took it
the guardian - ‘A kitten on heat with a racy physique’: the mystery of the bloodcurdling cat screech used in hundreds of movies

ifl science - Your Perception Of Time And Space Is Radically Altered By The Language You Speak
"The English language has its own confusing elements like this. If you heard the phrase "Wednesday's meeting was moved forward two days," does that mean the new meeting is on Friday or Monday? Polls suggest roughly half of people will say Friday and the other half Monday, depending on whether they imagine themselves in motion relative to time or time itself as moving."

the atlantic - Michelle Doesn’t Want to Go to Barack’s Work Thing

huffpost - This Aggressive Baby Name Trend Is 'Alarming' Experts

the atlantic - What Happens When a Plastic City Burns 

the hustle - How corn syrup took over America

vox - How the Los Angeles fires highlight the challenge of disaster relief