It's time again for a roundup of links to interesting articles. At least, I think they're interesting. You might think they're dandy, dull, depressing or daffy — and of course you would be entitled to that viewpoint.
- Elle: "Alyssa Milano Has Always Fought for Justice. Maybe You Just Weren't Paying Attention." by Molly Lambert
- NPR: "Quoting 'The Lorax,' Court Pulls Permit For Pipeline Crossing Appalachian Trail" by Laurel Wamsley
- The Ringer: "The Cost of Living in Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet Empire" by Brian Phillips
- Shelfdust: "The World May Confuse You: The Unforeseen Promises of 'Omega the Unknown' #1" by Osvaldo Oyola
- Atlas Obscura: "Humanity as We Know It Will Be Defined by the Broiler Chicken" by Abbey Perreault
- The Washington Post: "What if someone was shooting?" (Subtitle: "More than 4 million children endured lockdowns last school year, a groundbreaking Washington Post analysis found. The experience left many traumatized.") by Steven Rich and John Woodrow Cox
- Wired: "Why It's Hard to Escape Amazon's Long Reach" by Paris Martineau and Louis Matsakis
- The New Yorker: "How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success" by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Ars Technica: "Mickey Mouse will be public domain soon — here’s what that means" by Timothy B. Lee
- Motherboard: "I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone" by Joseph Cox
- Earther: "I Dug a Green Grave and Learned the Truth About the Dirty Death Industry" by Brian Kahn
- The Atlantic: "Don’t Reply to Your Emails: The case for inbox infinity" by Taylor Lorenz
- NPR: "Kamala Harris' 'The Truths We Hold' Demonstrates What's Wrong With Campaign Books" by Danielle Kurtzleben
- We Are The Mutants: "Atom Bombs and Beauty Queens: Female Sexuality and the Iconography of Destruction" by Miranda Corcoran
- We Are The Mutants: "From Galaxy Explorer to Galactic Enforcer: The Evolution of Lego Space" by Tom G. Wolf
- The Times: "Local dram comes true with Whisky Galore distillery" by Jason Allardyce
- The Guardian: "Welsh farmstead is rare medieval hall house, experts confirm" by Esther Addley
- Atlas Obscura: "Inside the ‘Trend-Free’ World of Wisconsin’s Supper Clubs" by Anne Ewbank [Note: This sort-of teases an upcoming post.]
- Philly.com: "This obscure company is doing more to destroy a free press in America than Trump" by Will Bunch
My current and recent books
- Way Station, by Clifford D. Simak
- The Grid: Electrical Infrastructure for a New Era, by Gretchen Bakke
- The Mother of All Questions, by Rebecca Solnit
- The Strange, by Jérôme Ruillier
- Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado
- Brunelleschi's Dome, by Ross King
- The Fifth Risk, by Michael Lewis
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