september 2023

less reading this month. spent more than a full week's worth of nights planning out our girls' trip to tennessee

the longest third date, they cloned tyrone

the verge - Inside one of the world’s first human composting facilities
vox - How the anti-aging industry turns you into a customer for life"
npr - Whatever happened to the 'No Sex for Fish' women after the flood? Hint: It's 'amazing'
thrillist - Once a Hotbed for Disappearances, the Bermuda Triangle Has Itself Gone Missing

outside -  Why You Should Stop Using Laundry Pods Right Now

thrillist - The Irish Pub Is Not a Bar, It’s a Global Phenomenon
“In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Irish people, motivated by famine, spread out around the world, and they brought their drinking culture with them,” explains T. Cole Newton, drinks expert and owner of Twelve Mile Limit and The Domino in New Orleans. “The trend didn’t really accelerate until Mel McNally founded the Irish Pub Company, which sold ‘kits' to anyone interested in opening an authentic Irish pub.”

august 2023

barbie!!!, poisoned: the dirty truth about your food, Oppenheimer

bit more reading this month. :)

nyt - ‘We’re All Water-Bottle Freaks’
failed architecture - A Cage by Another Name
bbc - The lifelong effects of 'the favourite child'
wired - The Incredible Shrinking Car Dealership
epicurious - Why Do Recipes Call for Unsalted Butter?
bbc - Netflix: How did it know I was bi before I did?
gq - What Really Happens to the Clothes You Donate
allure - The History of the Big, Bright American Smile
the atlantic - The Truth About Slushies Must Come Out
the hustle - The strange business of hole-in-one insurance
cnn business - Why America stopped building public pools
gq - What Really Happens to the Clothes You Donate
nyt - How a Vast Demographic Shift Will Shape the World
the hustle - Why the world’s best vanilla is so easy to steal
vox - What would it mean to treat guns the way we treat cars?
bbc future - Garbology: How to spot patterns in people's waste
huffpost - The 'Barbie' Movie Is Ending Relationships Left And Right
cnn business - Why people hated shopping carts when they first came out
cnn style - The controversial history of Barbie’s classic stiletto mule heels
vogue - Why One Trans Woman Wants to Discuss Sex After Surgery
npr - From Nebraska Lab To McDonald's Tray: The McRib's Strange Journey
taste - The Multimillion-Dollar Junkets That Introduced Americans to Olive Oil
npr - The story behind Asian Pacific American Heritage, and why it's celebrated in May
eater - Beyond Dining in the Dark: What It’s Actually Like to Eat Out When You’re Blind
thrillist - Why Can I Eat Endless Bread and Gelato in Europe and Never Feel Bloated?
vox - A study gave cash and therapy to men at risk of criminal behavior. 10 years later, the results are in.

the 19th -  Polyamorous families now have legal protections in this Massachusetts city
"An estimated 4 to 5 percent of Americans are polyamorous, and 21 percent reported engaging in some form of consensual non-monogamy at some point in their lives, according to a 2016 study in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy."

july 2023

less reading this month. parents' house renovation and db.

asteroid city, young victoria (2009)

atlas obscura - This Family Gave the World the Snow Globe
the guardian - The big idea: why colour is in the eye of the beholder
bbc future - 'I can't say my own name': The pain of language loss in families
the atlantic - The First Social-Media Babies Are Growing Up—And They’re Horrified
the 19th - A Black Texas couple chose their midwife’s care over a hospital. Now their newborn is in foster care.
daily paws - The Story of 'Cheese Tax,' the Ultra-Relatable Dog Song on TikTok That's Permanently Stuck in My Head

june 2023

sleeping with other people (2015), hiding in the walls (2022), the divide (2015), sorry we missed you (2019), Santa Sangre (1989), all quiet on the western front (2022)

the atlantic - Shoppers Are Stuck in a Dupe Loop
teenvogue - Where Did All The Tween Fashion Go?
BBC - Glass or plastic: which is better for the environment?
polygon - The men who created Tetris reflect on their bromance
vox - The Republican push to weaken child labor laws, explained
NYT magazine - Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags
the atlantic - A Tragically American Approach to the Child-Care Crisis
time - How to Steal a Masterpiece: Advice from the World’s Greatest Art Thief
NPR - A Utah school district has removed the Bible from some schools' shelves
discover - Uncovering the Mystery of Why Dogs Might Look Like Their Owners
the guardian - Why Are so Many Young Americans Adopting Fake British Accents?
NPR - Arizona Republicans try and fail to expel Democratic lawmaker over Bible prank
USA today - Nearly one-third of nation's homeless population lives in California, new research shows

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.