“Book women did more than just leave books on people’s porches.”
Good for kids, also anybody, considering the coming recession: did you know that “book women” delivered library books by horse during the Depression?
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Data on the rise and spread of BA.5 Covid subvariant: what we know, where it’s gaining, and how to defend against it.
Data on the rise and spread of BA.5 Covid subvariant: what we know, where it’s gaining, and how to defend against it.
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Where are the world’s millionaires moving this year? Mainly Singapore, Switzerland, Israel, the UAE, and Australia.
Where are the world’s millionaires moving this year? Mainly Singapore, Switzerland, Israel, the UAE, and Australia.
↩︎ Visual Capitalist
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The auto industry is growing wary of CATL, the industry’s biggest battery company, and Beijing seems to agree.
The auto industry is growing wary of CATL, the industry’s biggest battery company, and Beijing seems to agree.
↩︎ WIRED
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Washington made support of a Ukrainian victory a litmus test for American democracy. Germany and other allies have other views.
US leaders can’t or won’t understand that many US allies can’t and won’t stake their futures on whatever the American position happens to be at any particular moment
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Elif Batuman’s new campus novel feels like a guidebook to being “inside a body newly being touched, and touching.”
The fiction of Batuman’s fiction is that novels are dangerous because people like Selin read them as a guide to the future. But as Batuman (and her novel) know full well, fictions offer a way for both writers and re…
Oliver Burkeman: You’ll never be free from the present moment. But there are things you can do to feel free in it.
Oliver Burkeman: You’ll never be free from the present moment. But there are things you can do to feel free in it.
↩︎ The Imperfectionist
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Some remarkable “maps of time” from the influential 19th-century feminist educator Emma Willard.
Some remarkable “maps of time” from the influential 19th-century feminist educator Emma Willard.
↩︎ Public Domain Review
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From last January 2020 (but new to us), a candid, lucid—and, well, fictional—FAQ page about brain surgery by Mary South.
From last January 2020 (but new to us), a candid, lucid—and, well, fictional—FAQ page about brain surgery by Mary South.
↩︎ The White Review
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