may 2023

guardians of the galaxy vol 3, stalker (1979)

vox - The baby name boom
the walrus - Our Tote Bags, Ourselves
NYT - Say Goodbye to Daily Hotel Room Cleaning
the cut - The Ubiquity of the ‘Pumpkin Spice of Dogs’
timeout - Why did we give up on the reusable coffee cup?
vice - The Taste of Water, Explained by Water Sommeliers
nature - World’s first house made with nappy-blended concrete
aeon - What Know-It-Alls Don’t Know, or the Illusion of Competence
fast company - The first map of America’s food supply chain is mind-boggling
today - Starbucks is rolling out a new type of ice and some fans aren’t cool with it
the atlantic - The Puzzling Gap Between How Old You Are and How Old You Think You Are
LA times - How two friends sparked L.A.’s sushi obsession — and changed the way America eats
the guardian - ‘It felt like a job application’: the people weeding out first dates with questionnaires
slate - The Strange Reason Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It’s Fiction (You Guessed It: Rasputin!)
the cut - In the Pursuit of Hotness: How one sub-Reddit community is defining our beauty standards — and then striving for them at all costs.
the cut - A World Without Men: The women of South Korea’s 4B movement aren’t fighting the patriarchy — they’re leaving it behind entirely.
insider - A woman with an ethnically Chinese name called out 'name discrimination' and shared all the ways she was treated differently after going by an Anglo name

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.

March 2023

okay, set a time limit on instagram, but it hasn't made me read more, lol. mostly, i made it more of a priority this month to read. j and i also finished watching dark on netflix, and the last of us is on break so we're watching less tv and reading more in the evenings. 

Sex(ed): the movie (2014), loving (2016), Donnie darko (2001), the lost daughter (2021)

fortune - Working from home saves employees 2 hours a week in commute time, and they’re spending it in ways CEOs don’t expect [lol, commuting to work takes me about 2.5 hours a DAY]

pro publica - Machine Bias
insider - Gen Z's dating revolution
medium - Gen Z Hates The ‘Full Stop’
nyt - The End of the Office Dress Code
the atlantic - The Most Contentious Meal of the Day
nyt - Evolution Is Happening Faster Than We Thought
nyt - Britain Signals Intent to Revert to the Imperial System
wordtips - How Dogs Bark and Cats Meow in Every Country
vox - Our bodies don’t need meat. So why can’t we give it up?
nyt - Old and on the Street: The Graying of America’s Homeless
the atlantic - Junk Food Is Bad for You. Is It Bad for Raccoons?
new york magazine - How Exercise Shapes You, Far Beyond the Gym
vox - Living in a poor neighborhood changes everything about your life
undark - Your ‘Recycled’ Grocery Bag Might Not Have Been Recycled
buzzfeed - The Rise Of The Appuccino: How TikTok Is Changing Starbucks
quartz - The challenges women face in corporate America are curbing their ambitions
npr - Killer whale moms are still supporting their adult sons — and it's costing them
nbc news - Borgs are taking over college parties, and TikTok. What exactly are they?
mental floss - The Time the Allies Tried to Disarm Hitler With Female Sex Hormones
the guardian - Florida Republican sends welcome grenades to fellow Congress members
the new yorker - The Swiss Vote on Guaranteed Income Is About Rich People’s Problems
vox - How love and marriage are changing, according to 63,000 New York Times wedding announcements
kqed - 'An Untapped Pool of Talent': Why Isn't California Hiring More Formerly Incarcerated Firefighters?
cbs - Pablo Escobar's "cocaine hippos" won't stop multiplying. Colombia wants to move dozens of them out of the country.

la times - No, my Japanese American parents were not ‘interned’ during WWII. They were incarcerated

"Instead, The Times will generally use ‘incarceration,’ ‘imprisonment,’ ‘detention’ or their derivatives to describe this government action that shattered so many innocent lives."

I think this is great, but i also think it doesn't goes far enough. the japanese weren't just imprisoned, they were imprisoned in concentrations camps. FDR called it concentration camps then, and that is still what they are. the jewish (and others!) during ww2 were also imprisoned in concentration camps, though many were also sent to extermination camps, which is exactly as horrific as it sounds and we should more often acknowledge the difference between the two.

another article about this proper use of words, as well as a "comparison" of the american and nazi concentration camps:
npr - Euphemisms, Concentration Camps And The Japanese Internment

lastly: wikipedia definition of extermination camp (also called death camp) vs nazi concentration camps

february 2023

basically no reading or movies this month. we went to mexico city for about a week, then i was sick coming home, then we had my birthday weekend away, which also took some planning.

honestly, i've also been spending way too much time on instagram. i need to set a daily limit on it. actually really glad they have that feature built into the app. but back to the too much time on instagram. it's funny cause i never even finished posting out italy pictures. oh well, lol.

january 2023

the banshees of inisherin (2022), trumbo (2015), be hur, ottolenghi and the cakes of Versailles (2020), sorry to bother you (2018)

always a treat - A Candy Cane Story

the takeout - The History of the American Shopping Cart

the atlantic - America Is Growing Apart, Possibly for Good

the smithsonian - U.S. Faces Bomb-Sniffing Dog Shortage

bon appetit - They’re Vegetarian, But Only When They’re Home

the smithsonian - Ten Surprising Facts About Everyday Household Objects

vox - A no-beef diet is great — but only if you don’t replace it with chicken

washington post - The turtle moms that ‘talk’ to their eggs before they hatch

la list - Dear LAist: Why Does LA Have So Many Roads With The Same Name?

washington post - Great Salt Lake on track to disappear in five years, scientists warn

wired - What's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse

the economist - Nasty chemicals abound in what was thought an untouched environment
cosmopolitan - So, it turns out Carole Baskin's 'dead' husband has been found alive and well...

NPR - Judge Scraps 'Conscience' Rule Protecting Doctors Who Deny Care For Religious Reasons

abc news - COVID was the leading cause of law enforcement deaths in 2022 for 3rd year in a row: Report

insider - How the 'Romeo and Juliet' lawsuit could force Hollywood to reckon with its history of child abuse

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"