Recommended Reading (12/30/24)

Jimmy Carter, Peacemaking President Amid Crises, Is Dead at 100 (NYT)

In case you missed this good news over Christmas: Biden commutes sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners (NPR)

World endures 'decade of deadly heat' as 2024 caps hottest years on record (The Guardian)

So of course: Dutch appeals court overturns landmark climate ruling against Shell (NPR)

What’s in New Hampshire’s new minimum public school standards (NHPR)

New research points to raccoon dogs in Wuhan market as pandemic trigger. It's controversial (NPR)

Segregation Academies Still Operate Across the South. One Town Grapples With Its Divided Schools. (Pro Publica)

Cells Across the Tree of Life Exchange ‘Text Messages’ Using RNA (Quanta)

In Search of Lost Flavors in Flushing (The New Yorker)

City of cafes: Shanghai’s love affair with coffee (BBC)

How Novelist Lynne Reid Banks Helped Me See Myself—and the World (LitHub)

Why We Still Use Postage Stamps (The Atlantic)

Recommended Reading (12/20/24)

In Lebanon, residents fear Hezbollah could be hiding among people displaced by war (NPR)

This is bad! Under pressure from some conservative activists, Sununu pulls state librarian nominee (NHPR)

It's something, I guess: 13 states will have women governors next year, a new record (NPR)

For Xi Jinping, Religion Is Power (The Atlantic)

50 jobs, 30 years: The unseen labour of an Indian female worker (BBC)

Musket balls from first major battle of revolutionary war found near Boston (The Guardian)

Nick Harkaway on Growing Up with Smiley and Carrying on His Father’s Legacy with a new le Carré Novel (CrimeReads)

What the Heck Is Seaweed Mining? (Hakai)

Are We Living Through a Bagel Renaissance? (The New Yorker)

These Tiny Worms Account for at Least 4 Nobel Prizes (NYT)

Bringing Back Batting Average (Baseball Prospectus)

Japanese Green Tea Once Fueled the Midwest (Atlas Obscura)