Afternoon Tea (6/4/19)

This is lovely and I'm so happy for Emily: The Catastrophist, or: On coming out as trans at 37

The Shorebirds of Delaware Bay Are Going Hungry

This was really useful! How to Cope With Multiple-Project Paralysis

What 10,000 Steps Will Really Get You

I am mildly interested in taxidermy because everyone always thinks that's what I mean when I say I'm a taxonomist, and anyway this book sounds good: Better Know an Author: Kristen Arnett

Morning Coffee (11/29/18)

Wow: Senators back effort to suspend U.S. support for Saudi-led campaign in Yemen

GOOD: It’s official: Nancy Pelosi is Democrats’ nominee for speaker

U.S. Seeing Lowest Level Of Unauthorized Immigrants In A Decade, Pew Study Says

This is a great story about a very Republican town near me! Blue Wave, Red Town

I don't blame the faculty union here, they're trying to do what they can within their limits, but this is ridiculous: For Defense Against Active Shooters, University Hands Out Hockey Pucks

!!! I am sort of excited but also alarmed: Margaret Atwood to publish sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

"Claims." Chinese Scientist Claims to Use Crispr to Make First Genetically Edited Babies

This is an important update on that viral burger piece: Did a Rave Review Really Shut Down Portland Burger Bar Stanich’s? Maybe It Was the Owner’s Legal Troubles.

Oh, good for him (but bad wording in the headline!): Kent State recruit Kalin Bennett becomes first player with autism to get D1 basketball scholarship

Easter Island governor begs British Museum to return Moai: 'You have our soul'

Morning Coffee (4/29/18)

As Two Koreas Talk Peace, Trump’s Bargaining Chips Slip Away

Incel: the online cult for sad, sexless young men is terrorism by any other name

This is what life in #MeToo jail looks like

Unauthorized Immigrants Shy Away From Signing Kids Up For Food Aid

Shocker! Women not getting a fair say at academic conferences, research reveals

Why The Handmaid's Tale is more relevant one year after the first season

Wow: PopSugar Stole Influencers’ Instagrams — Along With Their Profits

Ooh! Nancy Dickerson Biopic From Stephen Colbert & Evelyn McGee Colbert In Works At Showtime

Amy Adams to Star in Joe Wright’s ‘Woman in the Window’

This made me say "Oh of COURSE it's in York": No One Knew There Were Dozens of Human Bodies Buried Under This Hotel Pool for Centuries

Afternoon Tea (5/18/17)

Ooh! Return of the Campbell, an Ornate Grand Central Bar

Heh: People Are Mad ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Doesn’t Respect Scrabble Rules

Ancient Astronaut Aryans: On the Far Right Obsession with Indo-Europeans

The Mystery of the 2,000-Year-Old Iron Beads

American Trees Are Moving West, and No One Knows Why

Morning Coffee (5/8/17)

Me elsewhere: TV news roundup.

THANK YOU, FRANCE.

The growing horror in a city where 500 children were kidnapped by Boko Haram

What a story: The FBI translator who went rogue and married an ISIS terrorist

Bribe Cases, a Jared Kushner Partner and Potential Conflicts

The Kremlin's California Dream

SHOCKING: Analysis Suggests Code from Female Facebook Engineers Gets Rejected More Often Than Code From Men

Elisabeth Moss on The Handmaid's Tale and what happens when sex becomes a radical political act

This is so cool: Touch New Stamp and Presto, Total Solar Eclipse Becomes Moon

Huh: Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda and Candice Bergen Are Making a Movie About Reading Fifty Shades (???)

Afternoon Tea (4/28/17)

The Handmaid's Tale is timely. But that's not why it's so terrifying

Ancient Horse DNA Shows Scythian Warriors Were Adept Domesticators

Ooh! Earliest Evidence of Pattern Looms Discovered in China

Learning Arabic from Egypt's Revolution

Rarely Seen Literary Treasures from the Library of Congress Archives

Morning Coffee (4/24/17)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

The French election is pretty fascinating and the Guardian has live updates today.

Colombia's armed groups sow seeds of new conflict as war with Farc ends

I know this isn't funny, but I enjoyed the headline: Four bakers arrested over illegal brownies in Venezuela's 'bread war'

Fake Working Class: The muted response to the retail apocalypse shows which workers count in Trump’s America.

Henry Kissinger just damned Jared Kushner with the faintest of praise

Chris Hayes on escaping the “doom loop” of Trump's presidency

Unlike all previous U.S. presidents, Trump almost never mentions democratic ideals

Even if you're sick of reading about this lady, as I am, this is worth reading: The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black

Margaret Atwood, the Prophet of Dystopia

!! Physicists observe 'negative mass'

Ooh: Europe’s Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets

Morning Coffee (4/18/17)

Aw, I love today's Esther Afua Ocloo Google Doodle.

Ooh, Theresa May has called an early general election.

A Fight, and a Fire, Roll Through a Migrant Camp in France

The Assad Family: Nemesis of Nine U.S. Presidents

Decoding Stephen Miller’s Nationalist Mind

Bunga Bunga, American Style

‘Make America big again’? The headache of translating Trump into foreign languages.

A new study shows American democracy is getting weaker. And not because of Trump.

Polish politician says women should earn less because ‘they are weaker, they are smaller, they are less intelligent’

The Radical Feminist Aesthetic Of "The Handmaid’s Tale"

Ancient bones and new technology reveal the face of medieval poverty

The Origins of Anti-Intellectualism