“Legal doesn’t necessarily mean safe.” Gaps in testing and law leave western PA family living near fracking shot with carcinogens.
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I feel so jaded having watched so much complete systemic failure in the face of so much tragedy, tragedy we’ve barely begun to process. All I feel like I’ve learned over the past year is that we have to help e…
“My vegetables always grew larger than most.” A report from the gentle British world of growing enormous vegetables for sport.
↩︎ Atlas Obscura
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Last week, chess surpassed League of Legends, Fortnite and Valorant as the most-watched gaming category on Twitch.
↩︎ Protocol
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There is balloon art, and then there is balloon art by Masayoshi Matsumoto.
↩︎ It’s Nice That
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Philip Bump: If retiring hurtful anachronisms is “cancel culture,” what, exactly, is the culture you’re trying to protect?
↩︎ The Washington Post
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The merch table is restocked just in time for next week’s Tournament of Books. Sustaining Members get 50% off!
↩︎ The TMN Store
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Researchers digitally unfold 17th-century letters that had been “letterlocked” to prevent them from being read during transit.
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