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"

november 2022

long trans atlantic flights means movies!
jurassic park: dominion, lightyear, nope, unbearable weight of massive talent, brian and charles, little white lies (2014)

basically no reading tho, lol

the Takeout - How One Man Changed the Way We Drink Wine
the Hustle - The fight to build more public bathrooms in America
Freakanomics - The Unintended Consequences of Working from Home
Quartz - Who should you trust? Psychologists have a surprising answer
World Economic Forum - These are all the world's major religions in one map
NBC - Don't forget to declare income from stolen goods and illegal activities, IRS says
NPR - 50 years ago, 'The Electric Company' used comedy to boost kids' reading skills
Fatherly - Study Shows Moms Who Earn More Than Dads Do More of the Housework
WCVB - Bees unleashed in attack on deputies during eviction enforcement, Hampden County sheriff says

daily news - NYPD will issue easier-to-fire guns to new recruits, aiming for improved accuracy

the atlantic - The Hidden Costs of Living Alone
"the share of American adults who aren’t married and don’t live with a romantic partner has also been growing, having jumped from 29 percent in 1990 to 38 percent in 2019"

nautilus - The Case for Professors of Stupidity
"On this past International Holocaust Remembrance Day, I reread a bit of Bertrand Russell. In 1933, dismayed at the Nazification of Germany, the philosopher wrote “The Triumph of Stupidity,” attributing the rise of Adolf Hitler to the organized fervor of stupid and brutal people—two qualities, he noted, that “usually go together.” He went on to make one of his most famous observations, that the “fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”"
David Krakauer, the President of the Santa Fe Institute - "...stupidity is not simply the opposite of intelligence. “Stupidity is using a rule where adding more data doesn’t improve your chances of getting [a problem] right,” Krakauer said. “In fact, it makes it more likely you’ll get it wrong.” "

October 2022

Generation wealth (2018), border (2018), spiderhead

lot less reading this month. j has been working fewer nights, i've been more stressed with work, and we're leaving for italy soon so i've been prepping for that.

Kaiser - What you need to know about GMOs
Vox - You’re going back to the office. Your boss isn’t.
KTLA - New law allows Californians to legally jaywalk
the Hustle - The family that built a ballpark nachos monopoly
NYT - The $25,000 Rookie Dinner Has N.F.L. Players Divided
Today - You have to see this family’s hilarious baby tooth tradition to believe it
MIT Technology Review - What happens when you donate your body to science
Refinery29 - I’m A Black Woman Who Wears Hair Extensions — But Is It Ever Ethical?
ABC - Qatar's airport strip-searching incident shocked Australia. Here's what we know
NPR - John Cena sets a new Guinness World record by granting 650 Make-A-Wish wishes
Vulture - The Mixed Metaphor Why does the half-Asian, half-white protagonist make us so anxious?
GQ - Inside British newsrooms on the day Queen Elizabeth II died: secret codes, chaos and black ties
City & State - Manhattan congressional candidate publishes a porn video to highlight his sex positive platform

september 2022

rumor has it (2005), straight up (2020), disobedience (2017), the two popes (2019), private life 2018), 

eater - the "jiro" filter
NYT - ‘The Golden Age of Thrifting Is Over’
mornings - The Most Common Dream in Every Country
taste - Putting the Chips Back in Chocolate Chip Cookies
wired - The Most Powerful Story The Onion Ever Wrote
taste - Bonne Maman Is Every Jam, Everywhere, All at Once
bbc - Prestatyn girl makes homeless blankets from crisp packets
sf gate - Bay Area squirrels are splooting amid recent heat wave
gastro obscura - Remembering When America Banned Sliced Bread
wired - These Trees Are Spreading North in Alaska. That’s Not Good
scoop - Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need
new atlas - Genetically modified purple tomato approved by US regulators
popular science - We Finally Know Why We Grow Wisdom Teeth as Adults
teen vogue - Australia Has Mandatory Voting, and Election Days Are a Party
wired - 130-Year-Old Menus Show How Climate Change Affects What We Eat
dmarge - Cruise Ship Graveyards: Where The World’s Biggest Boats Go To Die
vice - Chick-fil-A Is Asking for 'Volunteers' to Work for 5 Chicken Sandwiches Per Hour
the guardian - Beat the Clock: The Surprising Psychology Behind Being Perpetually Late
the tribune - California will allow human composting as alternative to cremation or burial
mother jones - The Curry Trap: How a Continent’s Worth of Food Got Mashed Into One Word
quartz - Nearly 400 Years Later, the Fork Remains at the Center of American Dining Controversy
vanity fair - Trump Wanted to Trade Puerto Rico for Greenland, and Yes, He Was Completely Serious
phys.org - The expansion of capitalism led to a deterioration in human welfare, according to new study
insider - The taste of kale made unborn babies grimace, but they smiled at carrots, a new imaging study found

august 2022

marcel the shell with shoes on, the little hours (2017), thor: love and thunder

both a little more and a little less time for reading this month, but for a while i sorted my pocket so that the shortest articles were up top since i wanted to make a dent in my list. i don't know how many articles i have saved in here, but probably thousands? :( in playing with the sorting function tho, i saw that i apparently starting using pocket in 2016. and sorting it from oldest saved to newest meant that there were a lot of articles that i could delete since i was no longer interested in them, actually. 

fivethirtyeight - The Gender Orgasm Gap
cnn - Sprite will no longer be sold in green bottles
nyt - Online Reviews? Researchers Give Them a Low Rating
the hustle - The people making millions off Listerine royalties
the telegraph - How Generation Z became obsessed with subtitles
lifehacker - Your Credit Score Is Linked to Your Chance of Divorce
axios - California's crack-of-dawn school ban could set a national trend
BBC news - The country where having a pet could soon land you in jail
good - Men are paid more than women - even when they're on parental leave
wapo - Traffic-weary homeowners and Waze are at war, again. Guess who’s winning?
quartz - Reusable plastic shopping bags are actually making the problem worse, not better
metro - Twins who married twins share how their sons are genetically brothers as well as cousins
nbc los angeles - Los Angeles Gives Savings Accounts with $50 to All LAUSD First Grade Students
nbc news - Many Gen Zers don’t use Google. Here’s why they prefer to search on TikTok and Instagram.
popular science - People With Extreme Political Views Have Trouble Thinking About Their Own Thinking
god - Texas Law Requires ‘In God We Trust’ Displays In Schools So Atheist Sends Arabic Version