New in the TMN store, the “My Other Phone Is a Book” smartphone case. Sustaining Members get 50% off!
New in the TMN store, the “My Other Phone Is a Book” smartphone case. Sustaining Members get 50% off!
↩︎ The TMN Store
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An investigation finds the Nature Conservancy helping big corporations greenwash their climate reputations.
An investigation finds the Nature Conservancy helping big corporations greenwash their climate reputations.
↩︎ Bloomberg
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During Thanksgiving, almost 90% of US passenger flights departed from airports in areas where the Covid risk level was critical.
During Thanksgiving, almost 90% of US passenger flights departed from airports in areas where the Covid risk level was critical.
↩︎ NBC News
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How do you suckle the teat of Christmas?
In case your Covid December could use some relevant but uplifting holiday cheer: an Instagram advent calendar with daily carols written for coronavirus concerns. Here’s “Martha Has Not Been Socially Distant (Christmas This Year).”
Via NPR
Italy’s Futurists declared war on pasta in the 1930s. So did Mussolini, to avoid economic dependence on foreign markets for wheat.
Pastasciutta, however agreeable to the palate, is a passéist food because it makes people heavy, brutish, deludes them into thinking it is nutritious, makes them skeptical, slow, pessimistic.
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Search engines suggest that every question can be answered, an attitude warned against by centuries of sages.
Search engines suggest that every question can be answered, an attitude warned against by centuries of sages.
↩︎ Real Life Magazine
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Do you like Brussels sprouts more than you did when you were a kid? Most likely you’re not eating the same variety.
Do you like Brussels sprouts more than you did when you were a kid? Most likely you’re not eating the same variety.
↩︎ NPR
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An alternative gift guide based on weird things found online.
An alternative gift guide based on weird things found online.
↩︎ The New York Times
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Thanks to the rise of passive investing, index providers not only measure markets, they move them—and regulators should follow.
Thanks to the rise of passive investing, index providers not only measure markets, they move them—and regulators should follow.
↩︎ Notes on the Crisis…