Another motley mix of articles of articles you might find interesting. Subscriptions might be required in some cases; support your local and national media!
- National Geographic: "Eating meat has ‘dire’ consequences for the planet, says report" by Sarah Gibbens
- Tor.com: "Why Science Fiction Authors Need to be Writing About Climate Change Right Now" by Charlie Jane Anders
- The Washington Post: "‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant reminders that the Earth is in trouble" by Dan Zak
- The New Yorker: "Have Aliens Found Us? A Harvard Astronomer on the Mysterious Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua" by Isaac Chotiner
- The Guardian: "Fate of castles in the air in Turkey’s £151m ghost town" by Bethan McKernan
- My Inside Voices: "My life as a museum" by Susan Jennings
- The New York Times: "Her Title: Cryptologic Technician. Her Occupation: Warrior." by Richard A. Oppel Jr. [on the late United States Navy officer Shannon M. Kent]
- Forbes: "How A Medieval Video Game Can Help Us Think About The Past" by Matthew Gabriele
- The New Yorker: "An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History: What a photograph reveals about the lives of young black women at the turn of the century" by Saidiya Hartman
- The Washington Post: "A hedge fund’s ‘mercenary’ strategy: Buy newspapers, slash jobs, sell the buildings" by Jonathan O'Connell and Emma Brown
- The Atlantic: "How Fancy Water Bottles Became a 21st-Century Status Symbol" by Amanda Mull
- Diabolique Magazine: "Goblin Keyboardist Maurizio Guarini Talks Suspiria and New Dawn of the Dead Commemorative Album"
- Philly.com: "Sorry, Netflix, rural Pennsylvania still likes this brick-and-mortar rental chain" by Jason Nark
- CityLab: "The FBI's Forgotten War on Black-Owned Bookstores" by Joshua Clark Davis
- Philly.com: "The forgotten history of Philadelphia’s early gas stations" by Inga Saffron
- Daily Memphian: "POWER BROKER: Inside a long-shot plan to buy a never-opened nuclear plant and sell its power to a single customer" by Marc Perrusquia
- The Atlantic: "When Kids Realize Their Whole Life Is Already Online" by Taylor Lorenz
Current and recent books I'm reading
- Reservoir 13, by Jon McGregor
- Six Months, Three Days, Five Others, by Charlie Jane Anders
- Saga (volumes 5 and 6), by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
- We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A&M Comics and Books in Hialeah, Florida, 1978. The official @WeAreTheMutants dream is to open a shop like this and slowly go broke. pic.twitter.com/rbE9Q1X2xr
— We Are the Mutants (@WeAreTheMutants) February 23, 2019
How can it be that the I, who I am,
— NLRCreations (@NLRCreations) February 17, 2019
didn’t exist before I came to be,
and that, someday, the I who I am,
will no longer be who I am?
:( RIP Bruno Ganz 1941-2019 pic.twitter.com/lbgSuRtyJL
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