Afternoon Tea (9/5/18)

The dark secret of Thailand’s child brides

Overlooked No More: Ruby Payne-Scott, Who Explored Space With Radio Waves

Lego Wants to Completely Remake Its Toy Bricks (Without Anyone Noticing)

The Crime Fiction of Oslo

Violent times? MPs as victims of murder in the mid-fifteenth century

Afternoon Tea (3/14/18)

This series is sad and fascinating: Missouri is a destination wedding spot — for 15-year-old brides

The Times is doing a great new feature called Overlooked, in which they write obituaries for important women they missed. Sylvia Plath!! Charlotte Bronte!

Daniel Mallory Ortberg talks The Toast, The Merry Spinster, and the joys of peanut butter

Modern Humans Survived a Supervolcano That Rained Glass Over South Africa

Neanderthals Painted the World’s Oldest Cave Art

Morning Coffee (3/12/18)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

Putin: Maybe ‘Ukrainians, Tatars Or Jews’ Meddled In American Election

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ White House spokesman does not deny that Carl Icahn was tipped off

Woman Who Was Forced to Marry Her Rapist at 11 Finally Changes Florida Marriage Law

Humans — Not Bots — Are Largely Responsible for the Proliferation of Fake News

FBI arrests CEO of company selling custom BlackBerrys to gangs ... of course they were BlackBerrys.

Ursula Marvin, Geologist of the Extraterrestrial, Dies at 96

Whoa: RIP Claire's and Thanks for All the Piercings

Good for them: Riverdale's Lili Reinhart and Camila Mendes Slam Cosmopolitan Philippines for Photoshopping Their Bodies

Interesting: A24 Buys Horror Spec From ‘Cat Person’ Author

A Tiny Book Written for Dolls, Commissioned by a Queen of England, Is Now for Sale (They certainly write off Vita Sackville-West easily here...)

Morning Coffee (10/24/17)

Spain’s prime minister has moved to strip Catalonia of its leadership. It’s an unprecedented act.

Soldier’s Widow Says Trump Struggled to Remember Sgt. La David Johnson’s Name

I wish this had been a bigger story than it was: 3 white supremacists arrested in Florida for shooting at anti-racism protesters

Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump

More than 20,000 underage girls marry illegally each day, claims study

Amazing: We Set up a Hotline to Help You Reject Creepy Men

Yay! ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ is returning for a second season

Quite the headline: Infamous Murderer Of Children Can't Be Cremated To Music Of Berlioz, Court Says

Heh: Stephen Hawking's Ph.D Thesis Is Now Crashing Cambridge's Website [Updated]

I just love this line: "Real Madrid could afford him but that would also mean having to end football immediately, for ever."

Morning Coffee (9/17/17)

The Myth of the ISIS Female Suicide Bomber

Taxpayers billed $1,092 for an official’s two-night stay at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club

House Dems: Michael Flynn May Have Lobbied For Nuclear Deal Inside White House

Hillary Clinton Is More of a President Right Now Than Donald Trump Will Ever Be (Except in, you know, all the ways that matter.)

Cassandra Levesque is Determined to End Child Marriage in New Hampshire

This is a good read for Emmy day: Critic's Notebook: Has Anyone Noticed That the TV Industry Has Lost Its Shit Lately?

Here’s Why Steve Bannon Wears So Many Shirts

Perfect: The 19 Books Hillary Clinton Should Write Next

Gamergate is never going away

Trust me, this is the cutest: Kasper Schmeichel, Tom Ince set to renew hostilities in Premier League

Morning Coffee (7/5/17)

Experts: North Korea’s missile was a ‘real ICBM’ — and a grave milestone

The Billion Dollar Cost of Child Marriage

Aww: Taoiseach Varadkar wears Canada socks for Trudeau visit

Well. A Fake Story Tricked Trump Supporters Into Protesting For No Reason, Then One Of Them Accidentally Shot Himself

Today in "sadly unsurprising, but good to have evidence" research: Study: Black girls viewed as ‘less innocent’ than white girls

Well, that's something: Court Blocks E.P.A. Effort to Suspend Obama-Era Methane Rule

Historians Uncover Slave Quarters of Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

Whoa: Lawsuit Reveals Gauguin Painting Was Not World’s Most Expensive

Interesting: Listening to the Piece That Made Chopin’s Career

You can now snort chocolate — but should you? Um, no. What? Why.

Morning Coffee (6/5/17)

Me elsewhere: Here's the week's TV news.

Here is the story you need to start your Monday: Hero Pitbull Uses Doggy Door to Save Neighbors from Violent Home Intruders

Indian teens pick up the phone to save their friends from child marriage

Hillary Clinton Must Not Be Silent

"The reason we don’t worry much about furious Clinton supporters is that no one’s afraid of them."

This is quite something: God and the Don

The Bullshitter-in-Chief

The Loneliness of Donald Trump

Silicon Valley’s basic income fans should spare a minute to defend the actual safety net

Aaah, the trailer for The Last Tycoon is super pretty.

Morning Coffee (6/3/17)

I know there's SO MUCH to keep up with right now, but please read about this manmade famine if you haven't: 20 million starving to death: inside the worst famine since World War II

Related: Girls are increasingly being married off in war-torn Yemen

This has more signatories each time I look. As of this writing: 180 US Climate Mayors commit to adopt, honor and uphold Paris Climate Agreement goals

An incredibly telling thing Trump said at today’s Paris event wasn’t about climate at all

Haha of course: Nigel Farage is 'person of interest' in FBI investigation into Trump and Russia

Maybe Private Russian Hackers Meddled in Election, Putin Says

WELP: The Coat of Arms Said ‘Integrity.’ Now It Says ‘Trump.’

This story is hilarious because everyone's fine, and it includes the most Tony Kanaan quote ever: Teenagers arrested after Indy 500 pole winner Scott Dixon held up at Taco Bell

White supremacists love Vikings. But they’ve got history all wrong.

JFK's Russian Conspiracy