Sh*t or Get Off the Composter By Michelle Weber Highlight Maybe pooping into porcelain bowls of potable water wasn’t the best idea we ever had.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Value Meals By Michelle Weber Highlight Sorry you never won a million dollars; hope you at least got a fresh batch of fries.
Long Live the Oddly Charming Poetry of the Mail-Order Catalog By Ben Huberman Highlight Hammacher Schlemmer, which publishes America’s longest-running catalog, still takes its product descriptions seriously.
The Slow Regard of a Difficult Past By Krista Stevens Highlight “In my family, love was the slow accumulation of moments in which I was not subjected to great harm.”
Go, L’il Birb! The First Plover in Los Angeles in 70 Years By Krista Stevens Highlight Can humans coexist on the beaches of Santa Monica along with wildlife? A beach “rewilding” project aims to find out.
Queer Eye Is an Upbeat Documentary of a Failing Social Order By Ben Huberman Highlight How a hard-not-to-love show glosses over the powers that produced its makeover subjects.
The Unbearable Blandness of Water By Michelle Weber Highlight Water companies go to impressive lengths to distinguish their tasteless product from their competitors’ tasteless product.
She’ll Be Everything He Isn’t By Michelle Weber Highlight An MRI sparked gymnast Selena Brennan’s interest in sports medicine, and Larry Nassar isn’t going to take that away from her.
Sliding Toward Disaster By Michelle Weber Highlight Water parks — competing to have the tallest, fastest, scariest slides — invent their own attractions and monitor their own safety, creating a deadly conflict of interest.
His Name Was Otto, and He Just Wanted a Little Adventure By Michelle Weber Highlight Otto Warmbier got arrested in North Korea, sentenced to hard labor, and was eventually sent back to the U.S. — comatose. As with many things North Korean, the why and how is speculative at best.
On the Origins of the Word ハーフ, or Hafu (Half): Belonging and Not Belonging at Once By Danielle Jackson Highlight Nina Coomes unpacks the origins and legacies of the Japanese word hafu, or half.
An Igbo Slaver’s Descendants Reckon With History By Danielle Jackson Highlight Adaobi Tricia Nwaumbani reveals her Igbo great-grandfather’s history with the transatlantic slave trade.
Earth to Gwyneth Paltrow By Krista Stevens Highlight Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s health and wellness empire, is being forced to address accusations of deceptive advertising.
Powerful On the Beam or Off By Michelle Weber Highlight Aly Raisman is a six-time Olympic medalist. She’s a survivor of abuse at the hands of Larry Nassar. And now, she’s an activist.
She’s Not Just a Girl in the World By Michelle Weber Highlight She’s a rock star, and a mom, and a tomboy, and a wife, and a study in contradictions.
Redlining in the Lap Lane By Catherine Cusick Highlight An incident of police brutality in Texas highlights the ties between private pools, homeowners’ associations, and racist housing policies.
How Japan Deals with the Remains of Your Days By Krista Stevens Highlight In Japan, business is booming for those who clean out apartments after people die.
The Palette is Political By Michelle Weber Highlight There is little in the world that is not in some way political, including YouTube makeup tutorials.
Big Pharma Has No Comment, But Would Still Like All Your Tax Dollars By Michelle Weber Highlight From 2008 to 2016, the amount that state Medicaid programs spend on prescription drugs almost doubled. Why?
Understanding Adrian Piper’s Probing Body of Work By Danielle Jackson Highlight Adrian Piper’s body of work encourages audiences to think critically about race, gender, and power, and to engage with their own perceptions.
I Paid $710 to Sneak Into This Club By Michelle Weber Highlight We wear slogan tees to signal our politics and identify ourselves to like-minded thinkers — but maybe they mask more than they reveal.
What should we do this weekend, go to the movies or sail a handmade raft to Polynesia? By Michelle Weber Highlight Don McIntyre is not a man who shies away from a challenge — an understatement if there ever was one.
That’s All, Folks! The End of the Blockbuster Era in Alaska By Krista Stevens Highlight At the end of July, no one in Alaska will be able to “Make it a Blockbuster Night!”
Should We Really Confide in Siri? By Krista Stevens Highlight People share their feelings with Siri all the time. What’s scary is that Siri is really listening.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett Was Born Today in 1862 By Danielle Jackson Highlight Pioneering investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born July 16, 1862.
Accountability for the Algorithms By Krista Stevens Highlight Tim Berners-Lee: “For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it.”
‘Wild With Love’: Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah on the Portraits of Henry Taylor By Danielle Jackson Highlight Henry Taylor’s portraits are sacred objects that lovingly center black subjects and black interiority.
You Don’t Move to Sarasota, the Spirit Moves You By Krista Stevens Highlight “In Sarasota, there is a community surrounding a litany of roadside psychics and more than 100 mediums and spiritual guides. Why?”
Introducing ‘Fine Lines,’ a Series About Age and Aging By Sari Botton Highlight A new essay and podcast series examines how attitudes toward age and aging have changed.
Jonathan Franzen’s “Readers” By Catherine Cusick Highlight Haters could write the book on hate reading Jonathan Franzen, but he wouldn’t read it and neither would they.
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