Afternoon Tea (7/15/19)

"The United States women’s soccer team has become an excruciating example of a scenario we’ve seen play out for decades: Little girls are told to follow their dreams, and to excel, until they become women and expect be paid for it."

Julián Castro can’t speak Spanish. Here’s why that’s so authentic.

What the Measles Epidemic Really Says About America

International Nonbinary Day was... yesterday, oops, but here are some book recommendations for the occasion!

Why No One Can Agree on What George Washington Thought About the Relationship Between Church and State

Afternoon Tea (6/21/19)

Eeee: Veronica Mars on Hulu Will Be Darker, Sexier, and Stacked with Guest Stars

This is lovely: Olympic ice-dance champions Virtue and Moir: 'We’re so proud of our relationship'

! Narlugas Are Real

Overlooked No More: Claude Cahun, Whose Photographs Explored Gender and Sexuality

6 Books About Queer Princesses for Readers of All Ages

Morning Coffee (6/12/19)

Sudan Protesters, Devastated but Defiant, Regroup Underground After Crackdown

Saudi teenager could face execution for joining protests as child

In case the message wasn't clear enough: Trump Administration to Hold Migrant Children at Base That Served as WWII Japanese Internment Camp

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says photos of travelers were taken in a data breach

This is a great piece: Watching Elizabeth Warren Come Alive

Daughter of Fierce Kavanaugh Defender Amy Chua to Clerk for … Brett Kavanaugh

I'm not SURPRISED at all but it's still sad and disappointing: Vatican says people can’t choose their genders

Awful: Ali Stroker’s Tony Win Was Monumental… And A Huge Slap In The Face

!!! Not Too Little, Too Late: Unfinished Gaudí Basilica Gets Permit 137 Years Later

Egypt tries to stop sale of Tutankhamun statue in London

Morning Coffee (4/23/19)

This is very bad: The Supreme Court’s New LGBTQ Cases Could Demolish Sex Discrimination Law as We Know It

Jamelle Bouie is always worth reading: The Lure of Impeachment

ISIS, After Laying Groundwork, Gains Toehold in Congo

I'm so glad they wrote this article, because this is so insulting: Why Are Conservatives So Eager to Call Elizabeth Warren “Liz”?

!! Computer Analysis Says ‘Beowulf’ Is the Work of a Single Author

!!! Influencer Faces up to 20 Years in Prison After Trying to Steal Domain Name at Gunpoint

UNH Study Shows Decline in Wild Bees That Pollinate Major New England Fruit Crops

Don’t Count on 23andMe to Detect Most Breast Cancer Risks, Study Warns

Ralph Solecki, Who Found Humanity in Neanderthals, Dies at 101

Neolithic dog reveals tales behind Orkney's monuments

Morning Coffee (4/20/19)

Robert Mueller Gave Us Everything We Need to Know

The best defense of Trump is still a damning indictment

This is just horrifying: Militia in New Mexico Detains Asylum Seekers at Gunpoint

Trump’s Pick for Interior Dept. Continued Lobbying After Officially Vowing to Stop, New Files Show

What Changes When the Presidential Field Is Full of Mothers, Not Just Fathers

Ohh, this does not seem like a good road to go down! Complaint from Manchester teachers union after dozens request Good Friday off and are denied

Sex, alcohol and violence collided in murder case ensnaring SEALs and Marines

Teen Dating Violence Can Lead To Homicide — And Girls Are The Most Common Victims

Three Endangered Right Whale Calves Spotted in New England Waters

Germany welcomes back priceless books lost in second world war

Afternoon Tea (4/10/19)

Muffet McGraw Says She Won’t Hire a Man on Her Coaching Staff. Let Her Tell You Why.

Female astronauts: How performance products like space suits and bras are designed to pave the way for women’s accomplishments

Unraveling Wikipedia’s Mystery over Women’s History

The Stories Of Black Women In The Military Need To Be Told In Books

This fairy tale series is interesting: The Evil Stepmother

Afternoon Tea (4/3/19)

Well, this is all terrible: Italy Is Ground Zero For The War On Women — Which Is Why These Far-Right Groups Are Meeting There

I don't like the headline but this piece about female inventors is interesting!

Again, not a great headline but an interesting and important piece: Bar or Bat Mitzvah? Hey, What About a Both Mitzvah?

The Dismal Career Opportunities for Military Spouses

Why Stop At One Book? Sandhya Menon Wrote A Rom-Com Universe

Afternoon Tea (4/2/19)

Russia Ordered a Killing That Made No Sense. Then the Assassin Started Talking.

Who Counts as a Woman?

The impossible quest to build a better breast pump

There Is No Reason to Cross the U.S. by Train. But I Did It Anyway.

WELL, this hit close to home: To the Type-A Person Having a Meltdown

Morning Coffee (3/31/19)

Mueller Report Exceeds 300 Pages, Raising Questions About Four-Page Summary

Heh: Attorney General William Barr Summarizes Famous Broadway Musicals

Counties that hosted a 2016 Trump rally saw a 226 percent increase in hate crimes

The real reason the Trump administration is constantly losing in court

The demobilization of the resistance is a dangerous mistake

Businessman detained at Gatwick over anti-Brexit badge

The warped history that fuels right-wing terrorism

Airlines damage or lose an average of 26 wheelchairs a day, report finds

Some of the science here seems far from conclusive, but... huh: Girls who share a womb with boys tend to make less money than those with twin sisters

How New York’s new monument whitewashes the women’s rights movement

Morning Coffee (3/29/19)

Whew, FRIDAY HAPPY LINKS time!

Important local news (seriously, read this article, the quotes are amazing): Market Basket: No Ghost In Wilmington Store

GOOD FOR THEM: Teen boys rated their female classmates based on looks. The girls fought back.

Awesome: Why We Created a Gender-Inclusive Stock Photo Library

A Previously Unknown Portrait of a Young Harriet Tubman Goes on View

AAAAH: 'The Queen Of Nothing' Is Holly Black's Heart-Stopping Finale To 'The Cruel Prince' Trilogy — Start Reading Now!

Ooh, neat: Saturn’s Rings Are Sculpted by a Crew of Mini-Moons

To All the Boys I've Loved Before Sequel Casts Jordan Fisher As the New John Ambrose

Solved: The 35-Year-Old Mystery of the Garfield Phones on a French Beach

This Sneak Peek of ‘The Meaning of Birds’ Will Both Break You and Heal You

Fug Nation Loves Cardigans! YES I DO.

Afternoon Tea (3/28/19)

By any measure, Nathan Chen’s performance at Worlds matches standard for transcendent greatness

Apple’s new streaming service is still mostly defined by what we don’t know

Human Genomics Research Has A Diversity Problem

Skara Brae women archaeologists who were written out of history

12 Jewish YA Books You’ll Want to Read in 2019

Morning Coffee (3/26/19)

Heads up, avocado lovers! This includes NH: Avocados are being recalled in 6 states after a batch tested positive for listeria

It’s time for Congress to do its job and investigate Trump

This is awful: FEMA shared California wildfire victims’ personal data with outside vendor

Getting Rid of the Electoral College Isn’t Just About Trump

Wowwww: The Politics of Beto and Amy O’Rourke’s Marriage

German Defense Spending Is Falling Even Shorter. The U.S. Isn’t Happy.

America’s Biggest Christian Charity Funnels Tens of Millions to Hate Groups

How to tax the rich, explained

Whoa: Duke University settles research misconduct lawsuit for $112.5 million

Male and female writers’ media coverage reveals ‘marked bias’

Afternoon Tea (3/14/19)

When a Dissident Becomes a Collaborator

I Found Healing With A Famed Spiritualist. Then He Was Arrested As A Sexual Predator.

Hayley Wickenheiser longs for the day we’ll ‘stop including gender’ as a qualifier

Sexing up history: how to study and tell the history of sex

Icebergs Can Be Surprisingly Colorful

Afternoon Tea (2/28/19)

The Lost World of Yiddish Anarchists

Pop culture is no longer full of apocalyptic nuclear visions. That’s too bad.

The Master of Spin

Asexual Readers Just Want Ace Characters to Live Full, Diverse Lives On the Page

Ted Bundy, Billy McFarland, and the Weaponization of White Male Charm

Afternoon Tea (2/27/19)

This piece on Facebook content moderators is a LOT, just to warn you, but it's a must-read if you can handle it: The Trauma Floor

Hoda Muthana and Shamima Begum: Citizenship and Expatriation in the U.S. and U.K.

Drowned out by the algorithm: Vaccination advocates struggle to be heard online

This is beautiful: How Marie Kondo Helped Me Sort Out My Gender

Move Over, Lady Psychopaths: The Locked-Room Mystery Is Back

Afternoon Tea (2/20/19)

This Is Her: The Lost Past and Hopeful Future of Mandy Moore

Meet the Mormon Transhumanists Seeking Salvation in the Singularity

He sounds exhausting: Tolstoy Ghosted His Wife Then Up and Died

A Whale's Afterlife

In the Fair City of Verona, Star-Cross’d Lovers Want to Believe in ‘La Casa di Giulietta’

Afternoon Tea (2/19/19)

Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths — or Falling Into Old Traps?

I'm so excited to read Anne Ursu's new book, and this piece she wrote about it is really good: What About the Girls?

An Italian Town Fell Silent So The Sounds Of A Stradivarius Could Be Preserved

Why a Museum Owns a Chocolate Company’s Embroidery Collection

Who Was a Typical Oxford Student in the 14th Century?

Afternoon Tea (1/28/19)

Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies?

There’s a Weird, Sexist Problem in Fantasy That We Need to Talk About

The History Before Us

In Britain, Enraptured by the Wild, Lonely and Remote

Lab notebooks - handwriting at the core of science

Morning Coffee (1/27/19)

Nancy Pelosi, a Woman in Control, Is a Rival Who Flummoxes Trump

There are SO MANY THINGS wrong with this: Trump Meets With Hard-Right Group Led by Ginni Thomas

Trump’s Inner Circle Keeps Violating the Stringer Bell Rule

Lawsuits Allege 'Grave Harm' To Immigrant Children In Detention

Let's Stop Coddling White Teenage Boys

Kansas Lawmakers Defect to Democrats as G.O.P. Struggles in Suburbs

Media Can Kick Its Horserace Addiction—And It Must

I am SO SAD: ‘This Could Be the End’ for NASA’s Mars Opportunity Rover

Colleges Lose a ‘Stunning’ 651 Foreign-Language Programs in 3 Years

Huh: Melissa Etheridge Prepping Musical ‘Mystic Pizza’ For Stage Delivery

Morning Coffee (1/16/19)

Theresa May loses Brexit deal vote by majority of 230

Redefining Representation: The Women of the 116th Congress

FINALLY: Steve King Removed From Committee Assignments Over White Supremacy Remark

Judge Orders Trump Administration To Remove 2020 Census Citizenship Question

Actually, the Numbers Show That We Need More Immigration, Not Less

Bidding Farewell To 'Hello, Dolly!': Actress Carol Channing Dies At 97

Goodbye, New York. Adam Moss Is Leaving the Magazine He Has Edited for 15 Years.

The research here is interesting: Consider Firing Your Male Broker

This news from my dad's hometown is so sad: Fire Destroys Historic American Shakespeare Festival Theatre in Stratford, CT

I am cautiously optimistic: Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ Finds Its Maria, Anita, Bernardo & Chino