As Super Tuesday envelopes the United States and Jesse "The Body" Ventura is additionally threatening an independent run for president, here is the latest and wide-ranging roundup of Great Things to Read on the Internet, interspersed with vintage postcards of walkable streets and communities.
Books, reading, writing and life
- Discover: "Medieval History, Illuminated: Book Historian Erik Kwakkel Uncovers the Past Through Books" by Cheri Lucas Rowlands
- Los Angeles Times: "Review: The freeway that looked like the future in 1940? Now, not so much. Nathan Masters on 'The Road Taken'"
- My Inside Voices: "The return of joy" by Susan Jennings
- io9: "The Single Most Important Thing You Can Do To Make Your Writing More Awesome" by Charlie Jane Anders
- The Atlantic: "Go Set a Legacy: The Fate of Harper Lee" by Megan Garber
- Atlas Obscura: "The most precious cargo for lighthouses across America was a traveling library" by Natalie Zarrelli
- LancasterOnline.com: "Little Free Libraries spread the words in Marietta" by Cathy Molitoris
- SciFiNow: "Charlie Jane Anders on witches, scientists and All the Birds in the Sky" by Jonathan Hatfull
Environment and recycling
- Motherboard: "A New Advocacy Group Is Lobbying for the Right to Repair Everything" by Jason Koebler
- The New York Times Magazine: "Learning to Recycle in Switzerland, and Paying for It" as told to Laura Bauerlein
- The New York Times: "E-Commerce: Convenience Built on a Mountain of Cardboard" by Matt Richtel
- The New York Times: "German Forest Ranger Finds That Trees Have Social Networks, Too" by Sally McGrane
- Think Progress: "Scientists Have Now Quantified Mountaintop Removal Mining’s Destruction Of Appalachia" by Katie Valentine
- Mother Nature Network: "Are your glass bottles really getting recycled?" by Matt Hickman
Walking and exploring
- BBC News: "The slow death of purposeless walking" by Finlo Rohrer
- Richly Evocative: "Along a side street Somewhere: In search of an anonymous suburb"
History
- York Daily Record: "Hal Brown: York's champion of civil rights" by Jim Seip
- NPR: "Your Letters Helped Challenger Shuttle Engineer Shed 30 Years Of Guilt" by Howard Berkes
- Smithsonian.com: "How 43 Giant, Crumbling Presidential Heads Ended Up in a Virginia Field" by Jennifer Billock
Current events
- The Hechinger Report: "How Finland broke every rule — and created a top school system" by William Doyle
- Gothamist: "Robert Caro Wonders What New York Is Going To Become" by Christopher Robbins
- Centre Daily Times: "Penn State’s favorite mailman to retire, write book" by Shawn Annarelli (I saw Mike the Mailman plenty during my time at Penn State.)
- Business of Fashion: "What’s Next for the American Department Store?" by Lauren Sherman
Technology & gaming
- Philly Voice: "70 years ago, six Philly women became the world's first digital computer programmers" by Meeri Kim
- The Atlantic: "What Computer Games Taught Me About Urban Planning. And what they didn’t." by Daniel Hertz
- The Atlantic: "Inside the Artificial Universe That Creates Itself" (regarding the upcoming game No Man’s Sky) by Roc Morin
Folklore & Ephemera
- Myth & Moor: "Into the Woods, 37: For our Feline Friends" (the folklore of cats) by Terri Windling
- ephemerasociety.org: "Junk mail is nothing new" by Dick Sheaff
Fava beans and other entertainment
- Deadline.com: "‘Silence Of The Lambs’ 25th: Hannibal, Clarice, Demme, Tally, Hackman, Goldman, Oscar And A Scary Ending Discarded: An Homage Of Untold Tales" by Mike Fleming Jr.
- Rolling Stone: "'Silence of the Lambs' at 25: The Complete Buffalo Bill Story" by Kory Grow
- Unschool Rules: "James Bond birthdays: Daniel Craig and Timothy Dalton" by Joan Concilio & Ashar Otto
- Back of the Cereal Box: "The Dark Side of Mama’s Family" by Drew Mackie
- Popular Mechanics: "Up Close and Personal With the Restoration of Star Trek's Original Enterprise" by John Wenz
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