“No one wants to have morning sickness and throw up on a glacier.” Confronting motherhood from Antarctica during an age of melt.
↩︎ Orion Magazine
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For the first time ever, scientists have detected ripples in spacetime created by a black hole gobbling up a neutron star.
↩︎ VICE
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The project of preserving and building on our intellectual track, including all its meanderings and false starts, is thus falling victim to the catastrophic success of the digital revolution that should have bolstered it….
Navneet Alang: Social media is a mainstream outlet for our worst habits, and yet it’s also a platform for the marginalized.
↩︎ The Toronto Star
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What it’s like to notch a win recently against one of the previously invincible “Big Four” (Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal) in professional men’s tennis.
According to surveys, Democrats have moved significantly left on big social issues; Republicans have moved only slightly right.
↩︎ Jabberwocking
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A new bill aimed at banning “vulgar and obscene” vanity plates—and maybe a “MILF mobile”—tests ideas about liberty in Maine.
↩︎ The Intercept
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She was taken aback when one student, a third-generation Minuteman re-enactor, later told her he had hung up his tricorn and musket. “It’s all garbage and lies,” he told her (putting it more strongly). &…
“I did feel sorry for Michael. Up that tube. Stuck.” A mini oral history of Willy Wonka’s ridiculous chocolate river scene.
↩︎ Polygon
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New Yorkers attempt to recycle about 1,200 bowling balls per year. (They’re not recyclable.)
↩︎ Curbed
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