Climate Change Enters Its Blood Sucking Phase
Climate Change Enters Its Blood Sucking Phase,The Atlantic, Feb 21, 2019. In northern New England, a climate-driven explosion in populations of moose ticks is d...
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How Trump’s lies are like Putin’s, and how the press should deal
Masha Gessen shows again why she’s invaluable right now. Lying is the message. It’s not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the sam...
My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard: A Mother Jones Investigation | Mother Jones
A MoJo reporter gets a job as a prison guard at a private prison. The orientation was a bit disorienting. The human resources director comes in and scolds Reyno...
Robin Marantz Henig’s gorgeous story on a woman facing one death to dodge another
Robin Marantz Henig is at her superb best in “The Last Day of Her Life,” a NY Times Magazine feature about a remarkable woman, Sandy Bern, who decid...
Gourevitch and Langwiesche on GermanWings crash; play war and real war; Mad Men’s dark bright side.
A Bewildering Crash. Philip Gourevitch at The New Yorker. Just as the brevity of the flight, and the apparent spontaneity of the captain’s decision to leave the...
The 80 richest people own as much as the poorest 3.5 billion
Hand it to the rich — no, wait, they already took it. Anyway, they get the job done. From my latest Read 2 roundup, a connection of pieces on wealth pain...
Getting it backwards: When market value determines art value.
Some critics like Jeff Koons’s work. Others hate it. At The Dish. [I]t is Koons’s signal achievement to have created a wholly new kind of art, one immune ...
Glitter in the Net, 20 May 2014
Shiny things from the day: In Arrested development, at Mosaic, Virginia Hughes looks at a handful of girls who won’t age and an aging scientist who’s determined...
Earthquakes, Times Quakes, Chimp Wars, Et Alia: David’s Irregular Reader
Recent high points from my browsing, in no particular order.• Long Exposure Night Photography of New Orleans That Captures the City’s Architecture After Dark. G...
Vikings & Ministers of Parliament Exchange Glances
Sometimes the short items are the most fun. From Today’s Times, via the genius Giles Kristian.