AKA Jane Roe, bottle shock (2008), Figure It Out on the Hayduke Trail (2008), Ken burns: the central Park five (2013), love me (2015), just eat it: a food waste story (2014), magnetic (2018), the history time travel (2014)
The Atlantic - The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying
Columbia Journalism Review - Black and white: why capitalization matters
NPR - 1 In 4 Americans Thinks The Sun Goes Around The Earth
Elle - It Does Not Matter If You Are Good
Scientific American - Cognitive Ability and Vulnerability to Fake News
The Guardian - Why are Africa's coronavirus successes being overlooked
Buzzfeed - I Don't Feel Like Buying Stuff Anymore
Vogue - She Does, He Doesn’t: The Gender Divide in Mask-Wearing
Marker - Inside the Flour Company Supplying America’s Sudden Baking Obsession
Mental Floss - Henry Johnson, the One-Man Army Who Fought Off Dozens of German Soldiers During World War I
Citylab - Who Owns a Home in America, in 12 Charts
Sup News - A brief history of typeface and its online evolution
Narratively - What I Learned About Life at a Company That Deals in Dead Bodies
Yahoo - How a 'rogue' employee forced NFL, Goodell into new Black Lives Matter stance
Washington Post - The need to go is a big barrier to going out. Why public bathrooms are a stumbling block for reopening.
The Conversation - The tooth fairy as an essential worker in a child's world of wonder.
NYT - What the pandemic reveals about the male ego
Mother Jones - “Qualified Immunity” Gives Abusive Cops a Free Pass. Will the Supreme Court End It?
WKMS - She Was Generous. She Was Also Racist. Should This Ballpark Carry Her Name?
Atlantic - The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying
Mental Floss - There's a Wire Above Manhattan That You've Probably Never Noticed.
The Atlantic - You're Showering Too Much - The Atlantic
SF Chronicle - California effort to restore affirmative action divides Asian Americans
Atlas Obscura - The Man Who Recorded, Tamed and Then Sold Nature Sounds to America
The Conversation - Why is the U.S. unwilling to pay for good public transportation?
NYT - Nearly Half of Men Say They Do Most of the Home Schooling. 3 Percent of Women Agree.
The Conversation - Why the German language has so many great words
Market Watch - 5 mistakes parents make when giving kids an allowance
fivethirtyeight - What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money
Mother Jones - The Cruise Industry Is Donald Trump Personified
Harvard Business Review - What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures
Bloomberg - This May Be the World's Best Prison Food
Mother Jones - The Anti-Vax Movement’s Radical Shift From Crunchy Granola Purists to Far-Right Crusaders
BBC - The mystery of why there are more women vegans
BBC - The hidden biases that drive anti-vegan hatred
Domino - Whoa: This Is What Happens to Your Body When You Drink Enough Water
"Though the eight-cup rule is popular, there is no one-size-fits-all number. Instead, it’s more of an individual approach. The new general rule of thumb is half your weight in ounces, according to Dr. Cohen. For example, if you weigh 120 pounds, you need to drink 60 ounces of water a day."
The New Yorker - What Would Happen If G.P.S. Failed?
"The United States Air Force, which runs the G.P.S. Master Control Station, in Colorado, calls G.P.S. “the world’s only global utility.” Wholly owned by the U.S. government, the system is available free to everyone, everywhere..."
NY Times - The Man Who Coaches Husbands on How to Avoid Divorce
"Instead of listening to their parener, digesting the information and caring about why they feel bad, I've found that guys invest their energy in one of three ways: they dispute the facts of the story their partner just told; agree with the facts, but believe their partner is overreacting; or defend their actions by explaining why they did it. In all cases, his partner's feelings are invalid."
The Atlantic - Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should
“This is an extraordinary failure of leadership in the United States,” Nancy Koehn, a historian at the Harvard Business School who studies crisis leadership, told me. “At the national level, there’s been a complete abdication by the government to help people make choices and adopt behaviors.”
"Koehn quoted David Foster Wallace’s definition of leadership to me: “A real leader is somebody who … can get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.” But now, when good leadership is absent, we have to try to do the better, harder things anyway."
The Atlantic - The Dudes Who Won’t Wear Masks
"Still, trying to shame people into healthier behavior generally doesn’t work—and actually can make things worse.
Public-health professionals have learned this lesson before. In 1987, Congress banned the use of federal funds for HIV-prevention campaigns that might “promote or encourage, directly or indirectly, homosexual activities.” As a result, public-health campaigns avoided sex-positive imagery and messaging, and instead associated condom use with virtue and condomless sex with irresponsibility, disease, and death. According to one particularly foreboding poster, which featured an image of a gravestone: “A bad reputation isn’t all you can get from sleeping around.” But those moralistic, fear-mongering health messages often fell flat. Other HIV-prevention campaigns began to adopt a harm-reduction approach, which empathizes with people’s basic human needs and offers them strategies to limit potential dangers. For some men, condoms got in the way of what they valued most about sex: pleasure and intimacy. Not surprisingly, HIV-prevention campaigns that put pleasure and intimacy at the center of their safer-sex messaging tended to work."
"And, most of all, masks are a constant reminder of what Americans so desperately want to forget: that despite all of our sacrifices, the pandemic hasn’t gone anywhere."
"Just like the buckets of free condoms stationed in gay bars, masks need to be dispensed where they’re needed most: at the front of every bus and the entrance to every airport, grocery store, and workplace. Masks should become ubiquitous, but distribution should begin in areas where the coronavirus has hit hardest, including black and Latino neighborhoods."
6.01.2020
5.03.2020
May 2020
hail Satan? (2019), downsizing (2017), the lovebirds (2020)
i'm working hard on reading this month! the last couple months when I go to may parents' I've picked something to go thru, organize, get rid of. I've cleared out two boxes of magazines to donate to the library, and have started going thru books too (to sell at bookoff, or donate to the library and local "little libraries." i've also been going thru my email inbox. I get flipboard and pocket emails every day so I've been trying to actually read the stuff now, ha!
Jennifer Jordan - Savage Summit, Hilary liftin and Kate Montgomery - dear exile, Stephen Clarke - a year in merde, Christopher R. Browning - Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, Loung Ung - First They Killed My Father
LA Times - Does L.A. Catholic school have a religious-liberty right to fire a teacher who gets cancer?
Bloomberg - At overloaded thrift shops, coronavirus is wreaking havoc
Mental Floss - The Man Who Built a 40-Foot Spite Fence Around His Neighbor’s Home
Time - How Martin Luther King Jr.'s Groundless Traffic Ticket Changed History's Course
Your Tango - What happened to Jared Kushner's face? Startling before/after photos
The Conversation - Dynasties still run the world
The Guardian - Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds.
Grub Street - The Quarantine Garden Has Taken Off Seeds are the new sourdough.
Mental Floss - The Russian Family That Cut Itself Off From Civilization for More Than 40 Years
Fast Company - The untold origin story of the N95 mask
The Guardian - 'It's for my daughter's memory': the Indian village where every girl's life is celebrated
Popular Science - How the new World Cup ball was designed to not influence the games
Longreads - The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor
GQ - Is There a Place for Hooters in 2018?
The Hechinger Report - How to reach students without internet access at home? Schools get creative
Outside - Can You Hack Coral to Save It?
Esquire - How Vans Became the Shoes Everyone’s Wearing—Again
Huffington Post - FML: Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression.
Racked - The History of Green Dye Is a History of Death
Reuters - Cadavers in the ballroom: Doctors practice their craft in America’s favorite hotels
The Guardian - Why are America’s farmers killing themselves?
The Atlantic - How the Index Card Cataloged the World
IndieWire - Animation’s Whitewashing Problem: ‘Rick and Morty,’ ‘BoJack Horseman,’ ‘The Simpsons’ Producers On How To Fix It
Fast Company - Here’s A (Crazy?) Plan To Bribe Crows To Clean Up Cigarette Butts
Vox - How granite countertops became an American obsession
CNN - What North Korean propaganda posters reveal
The Guardian - Bussed out: How America moves its homeless
The Telegraph - No time for leftovers: The astonishing scale of food waste in the UK and around the world
NYT - This Exhibition Was Brought to You by Guns and Big Oil
The Guardian - Rain is sizzling bacon, cars are lions roaring: the art of sound in movies
Vogue - “I Have Never Been Fired at By Police Until Tonight” – Journalists Covering Protests Find They Too Are Targets
Refinery 29 - The Traumatized 17-Year-Old Who Filmed George Floyd’s Killing Is Already Being Harassed
The Splendid Table - Mouthfeel: the effect of sensation and texture on the flavor of food
LA Times - Coronavirus leaves Washington farmers with a big problem: What do you do with a billion pounds of potatoes?
BBC - Coronavirus: Meat shortage leaves US farmers with 'mind-blowing' choice
Refinery29 - What K-Pop’s Beautiful Men Can Teach Us About Masculinity
Vogue - This Was the Decade That Hip-Hop Style Got Femme
CNN - She came out as transgender and got fired. Now her case might become a test for LGBTQ rights before the US Supreme Court.
The Atlantic - The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM
"The upshot of this research is neither especially feminist nor especially sad: It’s not that gender equality discourages girls from pursuing science. It’s that it allows them not to if they’re not interested."
Scientific American - Nice Brains Finish Last
"According to the model of “social value orientation,” humans can be placed into three rough categories, based on their reactions to economic inequity. 60% of people are pro-socials, meaning they prefer resources to be distributed equally among everyone. 30% are individualists, meaning they are primarily concerned with maximizing their own resources. Roughly 10% are competitive; to them, the most important outcome is that they have more than other people."
The Guardian - How the face mask became the world's most coveted commodity
"The pandemic has brought on a global shortage of masks, which is really a global shortage of one particular plastic inside the masks – a type of non-woven polypropylene that acts as a filter. In casual conversation, people in the mask business call the plastic “meltblown”, referring to how its plastic filaments are made. Meltblown goes into many things: jackets, nappies, filters in water purifiers and air conditioners. Masks are in short supply not because they’re difficult to produce, but because the meltblown industry is used to stable, long-term demand. It churns out just enough for its customers and no more. To install an assembly line of meltblown takes many months, even at the calmest of times; with demand now soaring, some companies supplying meltblown equipment are quoting timelines of up to two years to even deliver a new machine."
Buzzfeed - There Are Thousands Of Empty Hotel Rooms Across The US. Why Can’t Homeless People Use Them Through Quarantine?
J and I talked about this, how if he owned a hotel he would not let homeless stay there because they might ruin the rooms. I, of course, feel really bad about all those damn empty rooms and would want to give the homeless a place to stay. however, I would offer an incentive to help keep rooms clean. make it stupid dirty: I kick you out. keep it reasonable: I'll give you $10. keep it really nice: I've give you $20. or something like that. while yes, there are a lot of very messed up homeless who might trash the rooms, there are even more who would relish the opportunity to stay somewhere clean and private. during this time my hotel is making no money anyway, so yeah, I'd like the govt put people up. and i'd try to help them out too. j thought it was a pretty good idea :)
NYT - Leaders Are Crying on the Job. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.
"...it was common in the 18th century for upper-class men to cry — in fact, “they were viewed as brutes if they didn’t,” he said. It was only in the 19th century that the idea of male stoicism emerged, and it was not until the mid-20th century that tears were used to suggest that “candidates for public office were not manly or stable enough” to be there, Mr. Lutz said."
"women’s tear ducts are anatomically shallower, leading to spillover, which makes their crying more visible."
"“We have very narrow boundaries of acceptable emotional expression at work in general, and even more narrow for our leaders, male or female,” said Professor Grandey, the psychologist at Penn State. So narrow are those boundaries that they may boil down to the literal amount of tears. A tear or two — not a sob, Professor Grandey said. It also depends on what the emotion is about. Religious tears tend to be OK, as do heroic tears (think: war, sports). Patriotic tears are generally welcome, while personal tears are more risky."
i'm working hard on reading this month! the last couple months when I go to may parents' I've picked something to go thru, organize, get rid of. I've cleared out two boxes of magazines to donate to the library, and have started going thru books too (to sell at bookoff, or donate to the library and local "little libraries." i've also been going thru my email inbox. I get flipboard and pocket emails every day so I've been trying to actually read the stuff now, ha!
Jennifer Jordan - Savage Summit, Hilary liftin and Kate Montgomery - dear exile, Stephen Clarke - a year in merde, Christopher R. Browning - Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, Loung Ung - First They Killed My Father
LA Times - Does L.A. Catholic school have a religious-liberty right to fire a teacher who gets cancer?
Bloomberg - At overloaded thrift shops, coronavirus is wreaking havoc
Mental Floss - The Man Who Built a 40-Foot Spite Fence Around His Neighbor’s Home
Time - How Martin Luther King Jr.'s Groundless Traffic Ticket Changed History's Course
Your Tango - What happened to Jared Kushner's face? Startling before/after photos
The Conversation - Dynasties still run the world
The Guardian - Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds.
Grub Street - The Quarantine Garden Has Taken Off Seeds are the new sourdough.
Mental Floss - The Russian Family That Cut Itself Off From Civilization for More Than 40 Years
Fast Company - The untold origin story of the N95 mask
The Guardian - 'It's for my daughter's memory': the Indian village where every girl's life is celebrated
Popular Science - How the new World Cup ball was designed to not influence the games
Longreads - The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor
GQ - Is There a Place for Hooters in 2018?
The Hechinger Report - How to reach students without internet access at home? Schools get creative
Outside - Can You Hack Coral to Save It?
Esquire - How Vans Became the Shoes Everyone’s Wearing—Again
Huffington Post - FML: Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression.
Racked - The History of Green Dye Is a History of Death
Reuters - Cadavers in the ballroom: Doctors practice their craft in America’s favorite hotels
The Guardian - Why are America’s farmers killing themselves?
The Atlantic - How the Index Card Cataloged the World
IndieWire - Animation’s Whitewashing Problem: ‘Rick and Morty,’ ‘BoJack Horseman,’ ‘The Simpsons’ Producers On How To Fix It
Fast Company - Here’s A (Crazy?) Plan To Bribe Crows To Clean Up Cigarette Butts
Vox - How granite countertops became an American obsession
CNN - What North Korean propaganda posters reveal
The Guardian - Bussed out: How America moves its homeless
The Telegraph - No time for leftovers: The astonishing scale of food waste in the UK and around the world
NYT - This Exhibition Was Brought to You by Guns and Big Oil
The Guardian - Rain is sizzling bacon, cars are lions roaring: the art of sound in movies
Vogue - “I Have Never Been Fired at By Police Until Tonight” – Journalists Covering Protests Find They Too Are Targets
Refinery 29 - The Traumatized 17-Year-Old Who Filmed George Floyd’s Killing Is Already Being Harassed
The Splendid Table - Mouthfeel: the effect of sensation and texture on the flavor of food
LA Times - Coronavirus leaves Washington farmers with a big problem: What do you do with a billion pounds of potatoes?
BBC - Coronavirus: Meat shortage leaves US farmers with 'mind-blowing' choice
Refinery29 - What K-Pop’s Beautiful Men Can Teach Us About Masculinity
Vogue - This Was the Decade That Hip-Hop Style Got Femme
CNN - She came out as transgender and got fired. Now her case might become a test for LGBTQ rights before the US Supreme Court.
The Atlantic - The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM
"The upshot of this research is neither especially feminist nor especially sad: It’s not that gender equality discourages girls from pursuing science. It’s that it allows them not to if they’re not interested."
Scientific American - Nice Brains Finish Last
"According to the model of “social value orientation,” humans can be placed into three rough categories, based on their reactions to economic inequity. 60% of people are pro-socials, meaning they prefer resources to be distributed equally among everyone. 30% are individualists, meaning they are primarily concerned with maximizing their own resources. Roughly 10% are competitive; to them, the most important outcome is that they have more than other people."
The Guardian - How the face mask became the world's most coveted commodity
"The pandemic has brought on a global shortage of masks, which is really a global shortage of one particular plastic inside the masks – a type of non-woven polypropylene that acts as a filter. In casual conversation, people in the mask business call the plastic “meltblown”, referring to how its plastic filaments are made. Meltblown goes into many things: jackets, nappies, filters in water purifiers and air conditioners. Masks are in short supply not because they’re difficult to produce, but because the meltblown industry is used to stable, long-term demand. It churns out just enough for its customers and no more. To install an assembly line of meltblown takes many months, even at the calmest of times; with demand now soaring, some companies supplying meltblown equipment are quoting timelines of up to two years to even deliver a new machine."
Buzzfeed - There Are Thousands Of Empty Hotel Rooms Across The US. Why Can’t Homeless People Use Them Through Quarantine?
J and I talked about this, how if he owned a hotel he would not let homeless stay there because they might ruin the rooms. I, of course, feel really bad about all those damn empty rooms and would want to give the homeless a place to stay. however, I would offer an incentive to help keep rooms clean. make it stupid dirty: I kick you out. keep it reasonable: I'll give you $10. keep it really nice: I've give you $20. or something like that. while yes, there are a lot of very messed up homeless who might trash the rooms, there are even more who would relish the opportunity to stay somewhere clean and private. during this time my hotel is making no money anyway, so yeah, I'd like the govt put people up. and i'd try to help them out too. j thought it was a pretty good idea :)
NYT - Leaders Are Crying on the Job. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.
"...it was common in the 18th century for upper-class men to cry — in fact, “they were viewed as brutes if they didn’t,” he said. It was only in the 19th century that the idea of male stoicism emerged, and it was not until the mid-20th century that tears were used to suggest that “candidates for public office were not manly or stable enough” to be there, Mr. Lutz said."
"women’s tear ducts are anatomically shallower, leading to spillover, which makes their crying more visible."
"“We have very narrow boundaries of acceptable emotional expression at work in general, and even more narrow for our leaders, male or female,” said Professor Grandey, the psychologist at Penn State. So narrow are those boundaries that they may boil down to the literal amount of tears. A tear or two — not a sob, Professor Grandey said. It also depends on what the emotion is about. Religious tears tend to be OK, as do heroic tears (think: war, sports). Patriotic tears are generally welcome, while personal tears are more risky."
4.27.2020
April 2020 donation
even when I first started tracking notable articles on this blog in October 2018, I noticed that I read a lot of stuff from The Guardian. I never noticed before then tho. since noticing, I've thought to donate, but never did so until today. I gave only a small amount, and hope to feel more comfortable to give more after Covid, but I think anything, no matter how small, is appreciated.
I plan to choose a new group to donate to every month, and will probably eventually want suggestions. but for now I really like NPR, Radiolab, PBS, Planned Parenthood, Compton Initiative, OC Food Bank, Second Harvest, Food Finders, Harvest Partners, Food Forward, and Seed Savers.
cross-posted to my actual blog
I plan to choose a new group to donate to every month, and will probably eventually want suggestions. but for now I really like NPR, Radiolab, PBS, Planned Parenthood, Compton Initiative, OC Food Bank, Second Harvest, Food Finders, Harvest Partners, Food Forward, and Seed Savers.
cross-posted to my actual blog
4.03.2020
April 2020
1917 (2019), Bicentennial Man (2009), isn't it romantic (2019), circus of books, parasite (2019), keepers of the magic (2016)
The best American science and nature writing (2012) [not even sure when I started this book, maybe a full damn year ago!]
Jim Rogers - adventure capitalist [started and finished this month!!!]
Slate - Sexism Starts in Childhood
LA Times - 10 pioneer-era apple varieties, thought extinct, found in Pacific Northwest
Foreign Affairs - The Coronavirus Could Reshape Global Order. China Is Maneuvering for International Leadership as the United States Falters
MIT Technology Review - We're not going back to normal
Vice - Coronavirus Is making it harder for people to obtain birth control
Vogue - My Sister Is a Nurse in a New York Hospital, and They Aren't Just Running Out of Masks
Phys.org - Why you can smell rain
NPR - Her Incredible Sense Of Smell Is Helping Scientists Find New Ways To Diagnose Disease
The Conversation - How one ‘Rosie the Riveter’ poster won out over all the others and became a symbol of female empowerment
Inverse - Desi Arnaz: How He Changed the Culture of TV With a Single Business Deal
Serious Eats - A History of the Drive-Thru, From California to Coronavirus
Boston Globe - Why I don't feel safe wearing a face mask
FiveThirtyEight - Why Did The World Shut Down For COVID-19 But Not Ebola, SARS Or Swine Flu?
The Kitchn - Why Banana Bread Is the Official Comfort Food of the Coronavirus Quarantine
Smithsonian Magazine - The History of the Hawaiian Shirt
National Geographic - The Pandemic Is Giving People Vivid, Unusual Dreams. Here's Why.
Buzzfeed News - Rape Culture Is Surveillance Culture
NYT - The Death of the Department Store
Slate - Pallets: The single most important object in the global economy
The Atlantic - Celebrities Shouldn't Ask Average People to Donate Now
Men's Health - How the Game-Changing George Foreman Grill Made History
Refinery29 - What It’s Like To Be A Chinese-American High School Senior During Coronavirus
National Geographic - Like humans, flamingos make friends for life
The Atlantic - Calling Me a Hero Only Makes You Feel Better
LA Times - Coyotes, bobcats and bears: Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park
The Conversation - ‘Anumeric’ people: What happens when a language has no words for numbers?
Vice - Time Is Meaningless Now
Harper's Bazaar - 35 Rules You Probably Didn't Know Old Hollywood Stars Had to Follow
Vanity Fair - Can You Beat COVID-19 Without a Lockdown? Sweden Is Trying.
NYT - Vanquish the virus? Australia and New Zealand aim to show the way
Buzzfeed - After Transitioning, No One Calls Me Fat Anymore
Buzzfeed - Why I've Decided To Start Dressing More Femininely
The Guardian - Are female leaders more successful at managing the coronavirus crisis?
CNN - Women leaders are doing a disproportionately great job at handling the pandemic. So why aren't there more of them?
New York Magazine - Here's Why So Many Planes Are Still Flying, Nearly Empty
Bloomberg - Here's What You Do With Two-Thirds of the World's Jets When They Can't Fly
The Atlantic - The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism
Quilette - No, COVID-19 Is Not a ‘Disaster for Feminism’
The Guardian - Walk on by: why do we ignore bad behaviour?
"In one New York University study carried out shortly after the Genovese case, 85% of participants sought help for a man who was slurring his words when they believed only they could hear him. When they thought others could hear him, too, only 31% went to get help."
"The study’s participants were divided into groups that included those who signed an honesty declaration at the end of the test after they’d written down their score; and those who signed a declaration at the top of the sheet before scoring themselves. In the end, 79% of people who signed their name at the bottom of the page cheated by inflating their score, compared to only 37% of those who signed their name before scoring themselves. “When we are reminded of who we are – which signing our name surely does – we are also reminded of our intentions to be a good person who does the right thing,” Sanderson writes."
The best American science and nature writing (2012) [not even sure when I started this book, maybe a full damn year ago!]
Jim Rogers - adventure capitalist [started and finished this month!!!]
Slate - Sexism Starts in Childhood
LA Times - 10 pioneer-era apple varieties, thought extinct, found in Pacific Northwest
Foreign Affairs - The Coronavirus Could Reshape Global Order. China Is Maneuvering for International Leadership as the United States Falters
MIT Technology Review - We're not going back to normal
Vice - Coronavirus Is making it harder for people to obtain birth control
Vogue - My Sister Is a Nurse in a New York Hospital, and They Aren't Just Running Out of Masks
Phys.org - Why you can smell rain
NPR - Her Incredible Sense Of Smell Is Helping Scientists Find New Ways To Diagnose Disease
The Conversation - How one ‘Rosie the Riveter’ poster won out over all the others and became a symbol of female empowerment
Inverse - Desi Arnaz: How He Changed the Culture of TV With a Single Business Deal
Serious Eats - A History of the Drive-Thru, From California to Coronavirus
Boston Globe - Why I don't feel safe wearing a face mask
FiveThirtyEight - Why Did The World Shut Down For COVID-19 But Not Ebola, SARS Or Swine Flu?
The Kitchn - Why Banana Bread Is the Official Comfort Food of the Coronavirus Quarantine
Smithsonian Magazine - The History of the Hawaiian Shirt
National Geographic - The Pandemic Is Giving People Vivid, Unusual Dreams. Here's Why.
Buzzfeed News - Rape Culture Is Surveillance Culture
NYT - The Death of the Department Store
Slate - Pallets: The single most important object in the global economy
The Atlantic - Celebrities Shouldn't Ask Average People to Donate Now
Men's Health - How the Game-Changing George Foreman Grill Made History
Refinery29 - What It’s Like To Be A Chinese-American High School Senior During Coronavirus
National Geographic - Like humans, flamingos make friends for life
The Atlantic - Calling Me a Hero Only Makes You Feel Better
LA Times - Coyotes, bobcats and bears: Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park
The Conversation - ‘Anumeric’ people: What happens when a language has no words for numbers?
Vice - Time Is Meaningless Now
Harper's Bazaar - 35 Rules You Probably Didn't Know Old Hollywood Stars Had to Follow
Vanity Fair - Can You Beat COVID-19 Without a Lockdown? Sweden Is Trying.
NYT - Vanquish the virus? Australia and New Zealand aim to show the way
Buzzfeed - After Transitioning, No One Calls Me Fat Anymore
Buzzfeed - Why I've Decided To Start Dressing More Femininely
The Guardian - Are female leaders more successful at managing the coronavirus crisis?
CNN - Women leaders are doing a disproportionately great job at handling the pandemic. So why aren't there more of them?
New York Magazine - Here's Why So Many Planes Are Still Flying, Nearly Empty
Bloomberg - Here's What You Do With Two-Thirds of the World's Jets When They Can't Fly
The Atlantic - The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism
Quilette - No, COVID-19 Is Not a ‘Disaster for Feminism’
The Guardian - Walk on by: why do we ignore bad behaviour?
"In one New York University study carried out shortly after the Genovese case, 85% of participants sought help for a man who was slurring his words when they believed only they could hear him. When they thought others could hear him, too, only 31% went to get help."
"The study’s participants were divided into groups that included those who signed an honesty declaration at the end of the test after they’d written down their score; and those who signed a declaration at the top of the sheet before scoring themselves. In the end, 79% of people who signed their name at the bottom of the page cheated by inflating their score, compared to only 37% of those who signed their name before scoring themselves. “When we are reminded of who we are – which signing our name surely does – we are also reminded of our intentions to be a good person who does the right thing,” Sanderson writes."
3.11.2020
march 2020
bridesmaids (2011), Solaris (2002), the favourite (2018), the last man on the moon (2014), meet the patels (2014), the big sick (2017), a.i. artificial intelligence (2001), what men want (2019), joshua: teenager vs superpower (2017), the devil we know (2018)
FINALLY finished Richard Ellis - Tuna: love, death, and Mercury. I started this book like 6 months ago if not then before that? it's a good book, but I just haven't been reading books anymore! also, seriously, stop eating tuna. for many reasons, the ocean's health and your health, mostly.
social distancing plus my google account nearly running out of space means lots of reading this month!
Refinery29 - Why Does Every Coronavirus Story Show An Image Of Chinatown? Racism.
NYT - Opinion | Are You an Anti-Influencer?
NPR - Why America Is Losing The Toilet Race
BBC - The boss who put everyone on 70K
The Atlantic - Why Europeans Don't Get Huge Medical Bills
BBC - The simple maths error that can lead to bankruptcy
The Conversation - The way humans point isn’t as universal as you might think
BBC - Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail
Vogue - Is There Really Such a Thing as Equal Parenting?
NYT - ‘There Is Plenty of Food in the Country’
The Atlantic - Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?
The Guardian - 'Chunks of my tongue came off – you could see the tastebuds': Ross Edgley on swimming around Great Britain
Business Insider - The coronavirus may be driving up divorce rates in a Chinese city, officials say
Refinery29 - Apparently, Some Of You Never Learned About “Inside Clothes”
NYT - A Sewing Army, Making Masks for America
The Conversation - Naming the new coronavirus – why taking Wuhan out of the picture matters
The Atlantic - ‘Intensive’ Parenting Is Now the Norm in America
Inverse - Scientists Explain Why You Can't Stop Going Back to the Same Places
Bloomberg - The Wealth Detective Who Finds the Hidden Money of the Super Rich
The Conversation - The bizarre social history of beds
Vogue - Victim Who?
Vogue - “They Ignored the Warning Signs”: A New York City ER Doctor Explains What She’s Up Against
"You’ve tweeted about the extensive guidelines that Alibaba founder Jack Ma put out to help combat the spread of COVID-19. What did you learn from reading those guidelines?"
"We don’t have the capacity to do a fraction of the things they are suggesting. Across the country, we’re not testing health care workers regularly and we’re not “cohorting” them like they did in China. The report recommends keeping health care workers away from their families—intrafamily transmission is 80%. When you live in the same house as a health care worker, you can be considered exposed. I moved my kids out of the city before I saw a single patient because my son had a liver transplant. They’re now living with my parents. In China they even had “halfway house” programs to reintegrate health care workers back into their families. They would move into these facilities for 14 days to make sure they were not contagious. They would test them multiple times."
The Conversation - How knowledge about different cultures is shaking the foundations of psychology
"Consider which two of these objects go together: a panda, a monkey and a banana.
...... you think about it!!! ......
"Respondents from Western countries routinely select the monkey and the panda, because both objects are animals. This is indicative of an analytic thinking style, in which objects are largely perceived independently from their context.
"In contrast, participants from Eastern countries will often select the monkey and the banana, because these objects belong in the same environment and share a relationship (monkeys eat bananas). This is a holistic thinking style, in which object and context are perceived to be interrelated."
FINALLY finished Richard Ellis - Tuna: love, death, and Mercury. I started this book like 6 months ago if not then before that? it's a good book, but I just haven't been reading books anymore! also, seriously, stop eating tuna. for many reasons, the ocean's health and your health, mostly.
social distancing plus my google account nearly running out of space means lots of reading this month!
Refinery29 - Why Does Every Coronavirus Story Show An Image Of Chinatown? Racism.
NYT - Opinion | Are You an Anti-Influencer?
NPR - Why America Is Losing The Toilet Race
BBC - The boss who put everyone on 70K
The Atlantic - Why Europeans Don't Get Huge Medical Bills
BBC - The simple maths error that can lead to bankruptcy
The Conversation - The way humans point isn’t as universal as you might think
BBC - Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail
Vogue - Is There Really Such a Thing as Equal Parenting?
NYT - ‘There Is Plenty of Food in the Country’
The Atlantic - Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?
The Guardian - 'Chunks of my tongue came off – you could see the tastebuds': Ross Edgley on swimming around Great Britain
Business Insider - The coronavirus may be driving up divorce rates in a Chinese city, officials say
Refinery29 - Apparently, Some Of You Never Learned About “Inside Clothes”
NYT - A Sewing Army, Making Masks for America
The Conversation - Naming the new coronavirus – why taking Wuhan out of the picture matters
The Atlantic - ‘Intensive’ Parenting Is Now the Norm in America
Inverse - Scientists Explain Why You Can't Stop Going Back to the Same Places
Bloomberg - The Wealth Detective Who Finds the Hidden Money of the Super Rich
The Conversation - The bizarre social history of beds
Vogue - Victim Who?
Vogue - “They Ignored the Warning Signs”: A New York City ER Doctor Explains What She’s Up Against
"You’ve tweeted about the extensive guidelines that Alibaba founder Jack Ma put out to help combat the spread of COVID-19. What did you learn from reading those guidelines?"
"We don’t have the capacity to do a fraction of the things they are suggesting. Across the country, we’re not testing health care workers regularly and we’re not “cohorting” them like they did in China. The report recommends keeping health care workers away from their families—intrafamily transmission is 80%. When you live in the same house as a health care worker, you can be considered exposed. I moved my kids out of the city before I saw a single patient because my son had a liver transplant. They’re now living with my parents. In China they even had “halfway house” programs to reintegrate health care workers back into their families. They would move into these facilities for 14 days to make sure they were not contagious. They would test them multiple times."
The Conversation - How knowledge about different cultures is shaking the foundations of psychology
"Consider which two of these objects go together: a panda, a monkey and a banana.
...... you think about it!!! ......
"Respondents from Western countries routinely select the monkey and the panda, because both objects are animals. This is indicative of an analytic thinking style, in which objects are largely perceived independently from their context.
"In contrast, participants from Eastern countries will often select the monkey and the banana, because these objects belong in the same environment and share a relationship (monkeys eat bananas). This is a holistic thinking style, in which object and context are perceived to be interrelated."
2.10.2020
February 2020
Alita: battle angel [2019]
too much politics this month, oh, and travelling, to read much. :(
Bloomberg - China Sacrifices a Province to Save the World From Coronavirus
Vox - Having fewer kids will not save the climate
NYT - How Exercise Might Affect Our Food Choices, and Our Weight
City Lab - The Glamorous, Sexist History of the Women’s Restroom Lounge
NPR - Enjoy the Extra Day Off! More Bosses Give 4-Day Workweek a Try
BBC - How fast food reveals secrets of the economy
Fast Company - This map shows which companies have lasted hundreds (and even thousands) of years
Nautilus - The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times
Quartz - The forgotten art of squatting is a revelation for bodies ruined by sitting
Atlas Obscura - The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH
CBC - 'It's pretty staggering': Returned online purchases often sent to landfill, journalist's research reveals
The New Yorker - How South Korea Is Composting Its Way to Sustainability
"In the course of weeks or months, billions of microorganisms feed on the carbon and nitrogen in the composting mixture. Dry and brown organic matter provides carbon; green matter provides nitrogen. As the microorganisms process the mixture, they need oxygen, which is usually generated by stirring. Not enough oxygen, and the compost will smell like rotten eggs; too much nitrogen, and the compost will smell like ammonia; a good ratio of elements, and the compost will simply smell like fresh earth."
too much politics this month, oh, and travelling, to read much. :(
Bloomberg - China Sacrifices a Province to Save the World From Coronavirus
Vox - Having fewer kids will not save the climate
NYT - How Exercise Might Affect Our Food Choices, and Our Weight
City Lab - The Glamorous, Sexist History of the Women’s Restroom Lounge
NPR - Enjoy the Extra Day Off! More Bosses Give 4-Day Workweek a Try
BBC - How fast food reveals secrets of the economy
Fast Company - This map shows which companies have lasted hundreds (and even thousands) of years
Nautilus - The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times
Quartz - The forgotten art of squatting is a revelation for bodies ruined by sitting
Atlas Obscura - The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the 'Rats of NIMH
CBC - 'It's pretty staggering': Returned online purchases often sent to landfill, journalist's research reveals
The New Yorker - How South Korea Is Composting Its Way to Sustainability
"In the course of weeks or months, billions of microorganisms feed on the carbon and nitrogen in the composting mixture. Dry and brown organic matter provides carbon; green matter provides nitrogen. As the microorganisms process the mixture, they need oxygen, which is usually generated by stirring. Not enough oxygen, and the compost will smell like rotten eggs; too much nitrogen, and the compost will smell like ammonia; a good ratio of elements, and the compost will simply smell like fresh earth."
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