Afternoon Tea (2/14/19)

How a heart-shaped candy box came to stand for love

The Sexuality of Slang

Cooking with Iris Murdoch

How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution

Picture this: portraits of Anglo-Saxon rulers

Morning Coffee (2/8/19)

Not that we ever DON'T need Friday happy links, but we REALLY DO this week.

I love this: Rosalind Franklin: Mars rover named after DNA pioneer

There are some great ones this year, including non-binary people and a bunch related to disabilities! 230 New Emojis in Final List for 2019

Aww: San Diego Bookseller Undergoes Surgery, Other Booksellers Keep His Store Open

Michael B. Jordan, Warner Bros. Nab Film Rights to ‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf’

Ooh, this Sonja Henie movie looks interesting.

!! Hallmark will now air Christmas movies all year long

How to Make the Best Hot Chocolate From Scratch

Billy Eichner is making a gay rom-com with Judd Apatow and Nicholas Stoller

LET'S GO: The V&A Unveils Queen Victoria’s Most Precious Jewel

Lin-Manuel Miranda to Lead One-Night ‘Camelot’ Benefit Concert

Afternoon Tea (2/6/19)

On the Overlooked Eroticism of Mary Oliver

A Syrian Chocolatier's Legend Lives On In Europe — But Stays Close To Its Roots

A fascinating photoessay by a firefighter: To Smolder, Burn Slow

What Soybean Politics Tell Us About Argentina and China

Unlocking Access to Ancient Science in Renaissance Italy: the vernacularization of Pliny’s ‘Historia Naturalis’

Morning Coffee (11/5/18)

Me elsewhere: TV news for the week.

How mass shooters practice their hate online

Abortion May Be Mobilizing More Democratic Voters Than Republicans Now

Sigh: Brian Kemp’s office opens investigation into Georgia Democratic Party days ahead of the election

SIGH: Trump’s top agriculture official calls Florida’s gubernatorial race “cotton-pickin’ important”

Not the biggest campaign issue, but interesting: Sununu Says He's An Engineer, But Whether That's Technically True Is A Judgment Call

Two Capitals, One Russian Oligarch: How Oleg Deripaska Is Trying to Escape U.S. Sanctions

How zero tolerance forces undocumented victims into the shadows

This is heartbreaking: The NYPD Does Not Believe Two Saudi Sisters Found Dead And Tied Together Near The Hudson River Were Victims Of A Crime

Origin of chocolate shifts 1,400 miles and 1,500 years

New dinosaur species unearthed in Argentina

Morning Coffee (9/28/18)

I THINK WE REALLY NEED SOME HAPPY LINKS THIS WEEK.

Maybe you need to see a new baby panda.

Or a vacation cottage made of chocolate.

How about some cozy new cardigans?

Ooh: NBC Sets WICKED Anniversary Concert

I'M READY: Lifetime's Full 2018 Holiday Movie Schedule: 'One Tree Hill' Reunion & More

Doctor Who season 11 premiere to screen in cinemas

10 Public Art Installations To See In Greater Boston This Fall

Oh cool: Cosmic composers: how scientists helped reinvent Holst's Planets suite

5 Cheesy Hand Pies to Try This Autumn

Game of Thrones epic sets to open as tourist attractions

Afternoon Tea (8/17/18)

Talk Nerdy To Me: Seven STEM Romances

Chocolate-Making Is Secretive. This Chocolatier Isn’t.

Bernstein on Bach

The Strange Infinities of e-Commerce

Signs of different times: French First World War posters

Morning Coffee (10/20/17)

Let's have some happy Friday links to get us through to the weekend!

This is so great: New York City’s Libraries Will Forgive All Children’s Fines

!! LEGO celebrates female scientists with 'Women of NASA' set

OMG TINY HEDGEHOG GOES CAMPING

Amazing: College kid makes life better by rigging a door to play the Seinfeld theme when opened

The Hogwarts Express Is Real, and It Rescues Children

This is the kind of hard-hitting journalism we need today: An Ode to Royals Playing With Dogs

Really speaking my language here: How to Organize Your Giant Tote Bag

I feel like today might be the kind of day when you need some easy one-bowl brownies.

Ooh, let's go to Downton Abbey: The Exhibition.

42 Halloween-Inspired Nail Looks That Are Cute AF

Morning Coffee (10/14/17)

In Spain, Confusion And Uncertainty About Catalonia's Future

How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets

SIGH: Bernie Sanders to deliver opening-night speech at Women's Convention

Trump claims he ‘met with the president of the Virgin Islands.’ There’s just one problem. THAT'S YOU, YOU IDIOT.

Why Donald Trump Doesn't Care About Puerto Ricans

This is good, by Jon Favreau: American Awakening

Whoa: Unsent text message accepted as valid will by Australian court

How A Venezuelan Chef Is Teaching Women To Make Chocolate And Money

Important PSA: Covergirl's Slogan is No Longer "Easy, Breezy, Beautiful Covergirl" This is weirdly upsetting to me given that I don't think I've ever purchased one of their products.

Metal detectorists unearth unique hoard of Roman artefacts

Afternoon Tea (10/2/17)

Interesting: Ruby Chocolate Wants a Place at the Table With Dark, Milk and White

Religious Rite Takes Hamlet Back in Time Every Seven Years

The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends”

Roger Sherman: The Only Man Who Signed All Four Founding Documents

Murder at the Vatican

Morning Coffee (5/15/17)

(Still traveling! Hope the world hasn't ended yet! Back tomorrow!)

Mexico’s lost generation of young girls robbed of innocence and education

Fascinating: The Tangled Story Behind Trump’s False Claims Of Voter Fraud

I guess this isn't surprising, but dear Lord, he thinks health insurance costs $15 a month: Donald Trump has no idea what health insurance costs

The Last Whalers of the Caribbean

This is cool: What a Physicist Sees When She Looks at a Fancy Gown

To Simulate Climate Change, Scientists Build Miniature Worlds

Fake news about Agatha Christie is nothing new, but it's not drying up

How Women Learned To Love Chocolate

Chrissy Teigen is A DELIGHT, as always, and she says in this interview that she never washes her face at night, which makes me feel better about my own struggle to make a habit of that.

Stop the madness: The Narwhal Frappuccino Is Here and It Actually Sounds Delicious

Morning Coffee (12/23/15)

This will PROBABLY be the last link post until after Christmas, so Merry Christmas!

New Rules of Play May Shake Up N.H.'s GOP Primary Ground Game

President Obama has a theory about why people support Donald Trump. But he's wrong. (Or, more likely I think, he understands the real reason but realizes saying it in public would be TERRIBLE for him.)

Mallory Ortberg has a new book coming out!!

In case you were wondering: Ted Cruz Erotic Fan Fiction Is A Thing You Can Buy And Read Right Now

The scandal over Brooklyn’s small-batch artisanal chocolate factory, explained

Team Muddle Through, always.

Please Silence Your Mouth: Movie Theater Etiquette Slides from 1912

A radio DJ locked himself in a studio and mercilessly played 'Last Christmas' 24 times in a row

The Oddball, Nostalgia-Inducing Christmas Tech Art Of The 1980s And 1990s

Heh: 5 Sparkly Tops That Might Give You the Hope to Keep Going

Morning Coffee (10/14/15)

Me elsewhere: The Last Kingdom is promising. As is the new Magicians trailer.

This is one of those headlines that makes you say "Wait, ALL options here are terrible:" Afghan ISIS Branch Makes Inroads in Battle Against Taliban

!!!! “Serial” Update: We Need To Talk About Hae’s Boyfriend Don

Well: "In August of last year, its website dispensed with nudity. As a result, Playboy executives said, the average age of its reader dropped from 47 to just over 30, and its web traffic jumped to about 16 million from about four million unique users per month."

Nobel Renews Debate on Chinese Medicine

Who Will Save the World's Chocolate? AN IMPORTANT QUESTION INDEED.

Happy belated Ada Lovelace Day! Here's a good book list.

This conversation between Ezra Klein and the CEO of Trello is great, if you, like me, are fascinated by productivity software and organization methods.

How a Fake Typhus Epidemic Saved a Polish City from the Nazis

Decades After Her Death, Mystery Still Surrounds Crime Novelist Josephine Tey

Perfect: A Harry Potter Where Hermione Doesn’t Do Anyone’s Homework For Them

Morning Coffee (8/28/15)

Happy Friday!

Five Shows They Will Never Stop Making "1. The Adventures Of Mr. Superabilities And Detective Ladyskeptic." Hee.

World's oldest message in a bottle washes up in Germany after 108 years at sea

100 Years of Iconic Royal Wedding Dresses

This look at the mid-century food on Astronauts Wives Club is great.

!! A Cat Library, Just for Government Employees

Heh, this ad of kids reacting to bitter dark chocolate is adorable.

Taylor Swift sang "Smelly Cat" with Lisa Kudrow.

The Abandoned Theme Park That Finally Got a Storybook Ending

Morning Coffee (3/9/15)

Okay, getting back to normal this week. Here's your weekly TV news!

This actually has good advice applicable to a lot of situations: I Hate Myself Because I Don't Work For BuzzFeed

Oh no: Everybody Panic: Peeps-Flavored Milk Is Here

Hee: A Letter of Apology from the State of Maine to Lev Grossman

Aah! Hang out with tiny Mulder and Scully in their miniature X-Files office

Share Your Story of How Agatha Christie Changed Your Life

Look at this Harry Potter dress!

British ‘chocolate greenhouse’ saving the world’s cocoa

32 Things Someone From New England Might Have To Explain To An Out-Of-Towner

Morning Coffee (1/26/15)

Me elsewhere: TV news!

Well, this is terrible, Wikipedia.

Can't believe this needs to be said: American Academy of Pediatrics Urges Parents to Vaccinate Children to Protect Against Measles

The Truth About How King Abdullah Treated Women, Including His Own Daughters

Holy Shit, I Interviewed the President

Bulletproof Coffee: Debunking the Hot Buttered Hype

In Winter, Keeping Warm with Beloved Books

Oh no: After a Deal, British Chocolates Won't Cross the Pond

"A bard is providing occasional comic relief; no one hired or invited him and his method of earning a living is unclear."

Morning Coffee (11/18/14)

Visiting the U.S.: Pope Francis; the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

Awesome: Church of England clears way for female bishops

You Can Now Send Cash to Friends Via Snapchat, and doesn't THAT sound like a terrible idea?

The Harry Potter Alliance’s #MyHungerGames Brings Awareness to Stories of Income Inequality

The Butter has launched!

Uh-oh: We're running out of chocolate.

I hate "Do They Know It's Christmas?" with the passion of a thousand suns, but if for some reason you don't, here's the new version.

Billy Joel on Taylor Swift: "She catches a lot of junk, maybe because she's so popular with young girls." YEP.

Morning Coffee (4/9/13)

Happy Free Cone Day!

Margaret Thatcher vs. Pop Culture

Why June Thomas hated Maggie

The BBC is making an Australian origin story drama and a WWI series, because they love me.

Chocolate and slavery in São Tomé and Príncipe

Chainsaw man caught stealing tusk from Louis XIV elephant in Paris

9 Reasons to Be Depressed That You'll Never Marry Adam Levine

I love this sort of thing: Easter pictures from around the world

Morning Coffee (3/11/13)

Happy Monday? Blergh. I hate DST, because yesterday just felt weird and then this morning my alarm clock went off and WHY WAS IT THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT?

Not to start the week on a down note, but I'm still so sad that this third season of The Hour isn't happening.

For International Women's Day (belatedly): Women's political rights around the world

And here's the annual look at whether women's books are being reviewed.

Inside Adam Levine's $35 Million-Plus a Year Empire

Fascinating and heartbreaking and hopeful: Nora Ephron's Final Act

Belgium is making their stamps taste like chocolate.

Have you seen Lady Clementina Hawarden's photographs? You should.

Wow: The Professor, the Bikini Model, and the Suitcase Full of Trouble