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“In my research, I came across so many doommongering quotes about how texting was ruining the English language, when we obviously now know it as a cultural renaissance in writing that ushered in the new genre of the textolary novel … Continue reading →

What actors are actually doing when it looks like they’re doing cocaine on TV. “The number of states in the union has been fixed at 50 for so long, few Americans realize that throughout most of our history, the addition … Continue reading →

Gun licensing is a very effective solution to gun violence. “Why Do We Need Super Accurate Atomic Clocks?” RIP, Ric Ocasek, guitarist and lead singer for The Cars. “How Grocery Stores Became A Cultural Flashpoint In The Gun Debate”. “There … Continue reading →

“In 2009, Conservatives Shouted Down Efforts to Confront Right-Wing Threats. We’re Still Dealing With the Consequences.” “Though it can’t change everything, Walmart’s act is likely to change something. The employees’ response shares the logic of a previous people’s fight, against … Continue reading →

Don’t put non-recyclables in the recycling bin. It does more harm than good. “Stephens fell victim to the Megyn Kelly Syndrome, the pattern whereby those who were groomed by the peculiar insular culture of right-wing media find it hard to … Continue reading →

How to reshape the federal judiciary for the better. What the ginormous coconut crabs may have to do with Amelia Earhart. “Trump’s haphazard style of governance forces journalists, lawyers, and government officials to expend innumerable hours on doomed initiatives and … Continue reading →

“Kids, in our school, you’re always #1!” “As many as 32,000 women get pregnant through rape every year, and at least one-third decide to raise the baby instead of getting an abortion or choosing adoption. But because more than a … Continue reading →

The “Bin Laden” bill is finally going out of circulation. “A multibillion-dollar business that embraces advanced technology and cherishes precision, Major League Baseball would prefer not to need an oozy substance harvested by one family in a secret location along … Continue reading →

“What lawyers can learn about criminal liability from Beavis and Butthead“. Phree the Phanatic! What “doing life together” really means. More than you wanted to know about the spinning wheels used on game shows. Reconsidering Tracy Flick, the actual heroine … Continue reading →

Is the classic movie Airplane! now problematic? “The 69 Best Alternative Rock Songs of 1999″. I probably know more of these songs than I can recognize just from the titles. “Better to have a few rats than to be one“. … Continue reading →

“The Zero for Zeros campaign is asking companies with pro-equality records to stop bankrolling the fiercest opponents of equality.” This is the best Twitter thread I’ve ever read about the Kodak corporation, the International Fixed calendar, and nuclear bombs. “As … Continue reading →

How the Atlanta Braves wound up in the original NL West. “Unlike immigrants, natural-born citizens such as Carlson are neither screened nor forced to pass a citizenship test nor made to swear an oath. And when they stray from the … Continue reading →

“Cockroaches developing resistance to multiple classes of insecticides at once will make controlling these pests almost impossible with chemicals alone.” Eh, who cares about honeybees, anyway? “The sport should be so much further along by now; these women should be … Continue reading →

“Does anyone doubt that despite his seemingly good-faith call for Congress to eliminate gerrymandering, that any kind of national law seeking to overturn the practice would make its way back to the Roberts Court? Does anyone trust this court to … Continue reading →

Facebook content moderator is not a job you want. “How scout Noelle Needham and superstar Hayley Wickenheiser are smashing hockey‘s glass ceiling”. “Though the number of people who are ideologically opposed to vaccination is vanishingly small (1 to 2 percent, … Continue reading →

The day the music burned. “The widespread adoption of renewable energy technologies creates employment opportunities up and down the supply chain. Worldwide, the sector employed 11 million people at the end of 2018, according to this sixth edition of the … Continue reading →

You don’t bring me flowers any more. “That means Border Patrol can perform traffic stops and searches (on both private vehicles and Greyhound buses) not just in El Paso, but also in cities like Philadelphia, Portland, and Chicago.” “The Internet … Continue reading →

“How to Travel at (Nearly) the Speed of Light“. “Every year, thousands of women suffer life-altering injuries or die during childbirth because hospitals and medical workers skip safety practices known to head off disaster”. “To recycling experts, the shift could … Continue reading →

Trump administration officials as Blazing Saddles characters. “I therefore charted the ratio of minimum coach seat width to the proportion of U.S. adults who are overweight. At the risk of being cheeky, I label this variable the Airline Seat Size … Continue reading →

“[N]one of the people who submit grievances to the form will have their accounts restored or content promoted. They won’t get explanations for why social media isn’t working the way they think it should, and they almost certainly won’t get … Continue reading →

“If bitcoin is so safe, why does it keep getting hacked?” “Why abortion access is not only a right according to the 14th amendment (privacy) but also the 1st (prohibiting free exercise of religion.)” “Instead of obtaining plum positions in … Continue reading →

“And the most important thing to understand about Thomas of Monmouth’s massively, enduringly influential and culture-shaping story is this: It’s a lie. It’s a vicious, outrageous fabrication — the product of an evil, deceitful man with a twisted mind.” “So … Continue reading →

“Keep garlic out of your vagina. Words to live by.” “The NRA’s current financial woes bear a striking similarity to what happened during [its] tumultuous period in the 1990s.” “The decimation of sleep throughout industrialized nations is having a catastrophic … Continue reading →

“The problem is that this authority has been bestowed too hastily. Algorithms are increasingly found to be making mistakes. Whether it’s a sexist hiring algorithm developed by Amazon, conspiracy theories promoted by the Google search engine or an IBM facial-recognition … Continue reading →

“The number of multistate lawsuits filed so far against Trump is twice the number filed against President Barack Obama during his second term, when the spike in such lawsuits started.” “If you’ve ever fallen in love with someone whose main … Continue reading →

What 50-year-old astronaut diapers can teach us about the potential origins of life on Earth. “The campaign and presidency of Donald Trump seems to have ended all references to gaffes. To the extent that the term refers to a politician … Continue reading →

A primer on spotting creeps and taking action to help someone who might need assistance in avoiding said creeps. A deep dive into the NRA’s deep connections with Russia. “Then it dawned upon me that there was lots of money … Continue reading →

“Shortly after midnight on March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez  — an oil tanker carrying 53 million gallons of North Slope crude oil  — hit a reef in the Gulf of Alaska, ripping half a dozen holes in the hull … Continue reading →

“Flipping the bird is protected by First Amendment, federal appeals court says in cop-stop case”. “This seems to be one of those stories involving both intentional grifters and others who were merely incompetent, unintentional, self-deceiving grifters carried away by quixotic … Continue reading →

“Acknowledging the role of luck is the secular equivalent of religious awakening.” “What Dollar Stores Tell Us About Electoral Politics”. Behold Stevie Nicks’ magnificent shawl collection. “What are you giving up for Lent? Well, instead of giving something up how … Continue reading →

Facebook moderator is an unbelievably crappy job, for crappy pay. More Joe Bob Briggs, please. “God, these people are idiots.” “If we really want to help people being victimized, we will try to change the conditions that make people vulnerable … Continue reading →

“The Republican dilemma is that they hate the only solution that would approximate what they actually want. They hate it because President Obama signed it into law. They hate it because they’ve lied about this law nonstop for more than … Continue reading →

“Think about it this way: For two years, with his own party in control of Congress, Trump couldn’t get his border wall funded. Honestly, despite his own reports of being the most accomplished president ever, he didn’t get much else … Continue reading →

I don’t want a Lost reboot, but a new story set in the same universe could be cool. “How Russia infiltrated the world of American religious-right filmmaking”. “A few notes on [Jeff] Bezos’ security apparatus.” “Despite what the judge in … Continue reading →