Thanks, perhaps, to climate change, we're not exactly having the kind of weather here in southcentral Pennsylvania that makes you want to get all bundled under an Amish quilt and spend the weekend reading. Truth be told, it's more like "time to mow the lawn" weather.
But we shouldn't let nice weather stop us from doing educational and recreational reading. Here's Papergreat's latest collection of links to cool, thought-provoking and quirky things to read on the interwebs.
CURRENT EVENTS
- The Washington Post: "Photos: The tattered remnants of refugees’ long journeys" by Stephanie McCrummen
- The Washington Post: "What if every U.S. college campus offered to house a Syrian refugee family?" by Colby Itkowitz
- The Atlantic: "What ISIS Really Wants" by Graeme Wood
- Longreads: "American Gun Culture is Literally Killing Us: A Reading List" compiled by Emily Perper
- Autostraddle: "The 'Who Pays Writers' Conversation Needs a Little Nuance" by Marie Lyn Bernard, aka Riese
- Hyperallergic: "$260M Plan to Resurrect Ancient Wonder of the World Aims to Save Greek Island’s Economy" by Claire Voon
ENVIRONMENT
- CityLab: "This Japanese Town Shows How 'Zero Waste' Is Done" by Linda Poon
- CityLab: "The Violent Afterlife of a Recycled Plastic Bottle" by Debra Winter
FOOD & PHOTOGRAPHY
- The Verge: "Any sufficiently manipulated photo is indistinguishable from a magical masterpiece" by Vlad Savov
- Mid-Century Menu: "Vincent Price’s Pumpkin Pie – A Vintage Recipe Re-Run" by RetroRuth
- Yahoo! Food: "From a Treehouse to Tofurky: The Long, Winding Path of a Vegetarian Meat Company" by Gina Pace
- My Modern Met: "US Government Offering ~$100k for Photographer Position Once Held by Ansel Adams" by Sara Barnes (Pretty much the best job ever.)
READING & WRITING
- The New York Times: "Our (Bare) Shelves, Our Selves" by Teddy Wayne ("The implications are clear: Owning books in the home is one of the best things you can do for your children academically.")
- Dark Treasury: "Behind the Scenes: Turning Blog Posts Into a Book" by Auden Johnson
- School Library Journal: "A Curriculum Staple: Reading Aloud to Teens" by Jess deCourcy Hinds
PLACES
- io9: "9 of the Most Fascinating Abandoned Mansions from Around the World" by Vincze Miklós
- The Guardian: "Do Machu Picchu from your sofa, thanks to Google Street View" by Will Coldwell
HISTORY
- Ars Technica: "'Enough shovels to go around': Ars looks back at the lies of the Cold War" by Sean Gallagher
- The Atlantic: "Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks" by James Somers
- NPR: "The Strange Truth Behind Presidential Turkey Pardons" by Domenico Montanaro
- WBUR's Here & Now: "How To Travel While Black During Jim Crow" by Indira Lakshmanan (Photos and an excellent 10-minute audio story you can listen to)
- The New York Times: "WWII Hero Credits Luck and Chance in Foiling Hitler’s Nuclear Ambitions" by Andrew Higgins
- Live Science: "Ancient Board Game Found in Looted China Tomb" by Owen Jarus
- metkere.com: "Birds saved centuries old documents in their nests"
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