Weekly Reading (8/23/24)

How the Ukraine-Russia war is playing out differently on 3 separate fronts (NPR)

Iran uses fake news sites to interfere in U.S. election, Microsoft says (WaPo)

I was delighted by Massachusetts and Vermont. The DNC roll call featured a musical salute to each state. Here's what your state chose (NPR)

This is so great: Long-Acting Drugs May Revolutionize H.I.V. Prevention and Treatment (NYT)

Custody ruling in same-sex case hailed as LGBTQ+ milestone in China (The Guardian)

The Atlantic Is Cooling at a Mysteriously Fast Rate After Record Warmth (Gizmodo)

Lokiceratops, a Horned Dinosaur, May Be a New Species (NYT)

Jesus and the Jews: Part One (Life Is a Sacred Text)

A Secret Code May Have Been Hiding in Classical Music for 200 Years (The Atlantic)

This is nerdy but fascinating for um a very specific definition of fascinating: The evolution of Sonny Gray’s many sliders: ‘More velo, less movement’ (The Athletic)

How Lydia Ernestine Becker Was Once Central to—Then Excluded from—the Study of Botany (LitHub)

Doubling Down (Baseball Prospectus)