Afternoon Tea (6/27/19)

NICOLE CLIFFE'S ALANIS MORISSETTE PROFILE IS OUT!!! It is great, of course.

They Thought This HIV Strategy Couldn't Work. But It Did

Brand Twitter Grows Up

The Many Liars of Crime Fiction

Toads and ermine (and other coats of arms)

Afternoon Tea (6/12/19)

Their Fathers Never Spoke of the War. Their Children Want to Know Why.

Christine Sinclair is the World Cup’s quietest megastar

In Iraq Museum, There Are Things ‘That Are Nowhere Else in the World’

Feminize Your Canon: Catherine Carswell

The science here is interesting: Processed foods are a much bigger health problem than we thought

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

Afternoon Tea (5/30/19)

This piece about incels and plastic surgery is fascinating: How Many Bones Would You Break to Get Laid?

Latest Arena for China’s Growing Global Ambitions: The Arctic

I don't say this lightly, but these people should lose custody of their children: Parents are poisoning their children with bleach to 'cure' autism. These moms are trying to stop it.

Where Did the Right Whales Go?

Summer Book Preview: The 10 Books You Won't Be Able to Put Down

Afternoon Tea (5/29/19)

UGH ELON MUSK: SpaceX's Starlink Could Change The Night Sky Forever, And Astronomers Are Not Happy

The New German Anti-Semitism

Blair Braverman, great as always: Lyme Disease Changed My Relationship with the Outdoors

A Room Without Books Is Just Very Sad

The history of the pencil

Morning Coffee (5/29/19)

Evil: Trump Administration Separates Some Migrant Mothers From Their Newborns Before Returning Them to Detention

Good news! Supreme Court rejects transgender bathroom case, allowing transgender students to use bathroom of choice

Of fucking COURSE he would: In reversal from 2016, McConnell says he would fill a potential Supreme Court vacancy in 2020

This is awful: Missouri’s Last Abortion Clinic Could Stop Providing the Procedure This Week

New Hampshire Prisons Ban Books Critical of Prison System, Award Winners

Right-wing media's anti-abortion misinformation playbook for 2020

5G could mean less time to flee a deadly hurricane, heads of NASA and NOAA warn

Denied graves by Nazis, resistance fighters finally buried

Murray Gell-Mann, Who Peered at Particles and Saw the Universe, Dies at 89

Research Says Having Fresh Flowers in Your Home Can Actually Reduce Levels of Pain

Morning Coffee (5/2/19)

All this is just... wow: Barr’s refusal to testify before House panel increases likelihood of contempt citation from Congress

The Democrats' Fatal Impeachment Error

This is just awful: Caster Semenya: Olympic 800m champion loses appeal against IAAF testosterone rules

Indonesia's planning minister announces capital city move (BECAUSE THE CITY IS SINKING)

THIS IS HORRIFYING: Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign unveils tech tool to increase its voter database (specifically the "report on which of your neighbors might not be sufficiently loyal" part)

U.N. Issues Urgent Warning on the Growing Peril of Drug-Resistant Infections

Revealed: populists far more likely to believe in conspiracy theories

!! Denisovan Jawbone Discovered in a Cave in Tibet

Jo Sullivan Loesser, Singer and Guardian of a Legacy, Dies at 91

Release of “13 Reasons Why” Associated with Increase in Youth Suicide Rates

Morning Coffee (5/1/19)

Mueller Objected to Barr’s Description of Russia Investigation’s Findings on Trump

Julian Assange jailed for 50 weeks for breaching bail in 2012

Trump wants to make asylum seekers’ stay in the US harder — and shorter

Supreme Court’s Ruling on Making SNAP Retail Data Public Has Broad Public Health Implications

Ugh, of COURSE: Far-Right Smear Merchants Try to Slime Pete Buttigieg with Bogus Sex Assault Claim

Ashdown Forest: Fire breaks out in Winnie the Pooh wood

Belarus Building Site Yields the Bones of 1,214 Holocaust Victims

Justice prohibits sale of Brazilian books accused of plagiarizing Nora Roberts

Scientists Create Speech From Brain Signals

Women, People of Color Make Progress as TV Writers But Still Underrepresented in Top Jobs

Afternoon Tea (4/11/19)

Old, Online, And Fed On Lies: How An Aging Population Will Reshape The Internet

Sandy Fawkes: The Reporter and the Serial Killer

Stories of transracial adoptees must be heard – even uncomfortable ones

When a Mystery Illness Threatens Your Identity

Move back to your dying hometown. Unless you can’t.

Afternoon Tea (4/4/19)

The Man Trying to Make Sense of Brexit Is Tired and Would Like to Stop Now

At 71, She’s Never Felt Pain or Anxiety. Now Scientists Know Why.

What More Could I Have Done For My Student, 'Vulnerable To The Slightest Of Breezes'?

I love a good bad book review and this is a GREAT one: Psycho Analysis

I didn't realize this was a New England thing! The Anatomy of a Three-Decker

Afternoon Tea (3/26/19)

This piece by Emilia Clarke on surviving two aneurysms is great: A Battle for My Life

Why Anti-Semitism in Media Just Won’t Go Away

“She Lied to My Face”: Inside the Hectic Last Days of Gymboree’s Retail Bankruptcy

The Fertility Doctor's Secret

2019’s Must-Read Romance Novels According to Romance Authors

Afternoon Tea (3/19/19)

This is long but it's a great piece on what has happened to the friend who filmed the killing of Eric Garner: Fearing for His Life

A great piece by my friend Jen: Tweens deal with eating disorders, too: Why I write "tough" books for young kids

Behind the behind-the-story stories

Feel better now? The rise and rise of the anxiety economy

Indigenous Cuisine Is Being Served in the Back of a Berkeley Bookstore

Morning Coffee (12/1/18)

In case you missed this overnight: George Bush, 41st President, Dies at 94

Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, pleads guilty to lying to Congress about Moscow project

Related and useful: Everyone Who’s Been Charged as a Result of the Mueller Investigation

The Trump Organization Planned To Give Vladimir Putin The $50 Million Penthouse In Trump Tower Moscow

Phew: Republican Senator Kills Nomination of Judge Who Defended Voter Suppression

Deutsche Bank Offices Are Searched in Money Laundering Investigation

Not good! Sheryl Sandberg Asked for Soros Research, Facebook Acknowledges

Whoa: ‘Tangled web’ in Bladen County has questions swirling about votes in the 9th District

The Invisible American in a Saudi Prison Cell

Wow! Powdered polio vaccine brings hope to Nigeria and Pakistan

Morning Coffee (11/21/18)

In case you somehow didn't see! Do Not Eat Romaine Lettuce, Health Officials Warn

Let's start with some good political news because then we have a whole run of bad: Judge stops Trump from enforcing asylum ban

Not a surprise, but still... UH. Trump Wanted to Order Justice Dept. to Prosecute Comey and Clinton

VERY BAD: Trump’s Khashoggi statement is a green light for murder

ALSO BAD: Trump administration officials suggested sharing census responses with law enforcement, court documents show

More bad! How Trump administration pressure to dump 4-H's LGBT policy led to Iowa leader's firing

She has since dropped her bid for Pelosi's job, but this is still not good! (She's also Not Great on LGBTQ+ issues.) Marcia Fudge vouched for man now accused of killing ex-wife

Yes, the campaign to take down Nancy Pelosi is sexist — not to mention a terrible idea

Okay, SOMETHING ELSE GOOD: In New Class of Young Lawmakers, a Former Girl Scout Goes to the Statehouse

Have a wild art theft story to finish: A Dutch writer thought she’d found a stolen Picasso. The real story is much weirder.

Afternoon Tea (11/19/18)

Wow: We Thought We Knew Faith, Until We Didn’t: The making of a white-nationalist poster girl.

Reclaiming our Mohawk heritage, one app-supplied word at a time

A new study further undermines the myth of the “savage” Neanderthal

Should Pregnant Women Take Anti-Anxiety Medication? Some Have No Choice.

Claire Legrand on the Importance of Feminist Horror

Morning Coffee (11/15/18)

Crown Prince’s wings clipped as Khashoggi death rattles Riyadh

Israel and Gaza just saw their worst violence in years. It could get worse.

DC Neo-Nazi Who Said Pittsburgh Victims ‘Deserved’ It Arrested; Has Deep Ties To ‘Alt-Right’

Meet the Native American Woman Who Beat the Sponsor of North Dakota’s ID Law

Steve King dared a conservative magazine to release audio of him calling immigrants ‘dirt.’ It did.

Can't imagine why: Attacks on religious and racial minorities fueled sharp rise in hate crimes in 2017, FBI says

Jim Acosta vs. the Trump White House, explained

House Democrats plan to push for $15 federal minimum wage

Scientists divided over new research method to combat malaria

Dozens of cat mummies found in 6,000-year-old tombs in Egypt

Afternoon Tea (11/14/18)

THIS STORY!!! The Watcher

Whoo boy: The War Inside 7-Eleven

Thanks to Michelle Obama and other celebs, infertility is no longer a dirty word

12 Native American Authors to Read During Native American Heritage Month

Equality at the Gallows: The Hanged Women of England

Afternoon Tea (11/13/18)

This is a difficult read, but important: Everyone Believed Larry Nassar

I can't wait to read this book: Michelle Obama Gets Candid With Oprah About Her New Memoir, 'Becoming'

Amazon Was Never Going to Choose Detroit

The growth of yoga and meditation in the US since 2012 is remarkable

18 Key Bomber Aircraft From World War One

Afternoon Tea (10/31/18)

This is an interesting companion to the recent New Yorker piece on how classical sculpture wasn't actually white: Himmler's Antiquity

I'm impressed with how many of these I've read, given how easily scared I am: The 10 Scariest Books You Should Keep On Your Nightstand

Chris Brown, Johnny Depp, and the Politics of Ex Abuse

I'm mad at how true this is: The Simplest Way to Drastically Improve Your Life: More Sleep

Here’s Why a 50-Degree Day Feels Colder in Fall Than in Spring

Morning Coffee (10/28/18)

This is horrifying: Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting: At Least 11 Dead and Gunman Identified

Also: Kroger Shooting Suspect Tried to Enter Black Church Before Killing 2, Police Say

Related: Trumpism Is ‘Identity Politics’ for White People

Obviously this is all we need: NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch says supporters may need to bring guns to polls to protect themselves from progressives

Ugh: N.H. Supreme Court Says SB3 Can Stay In Place, Reversing Lower Court's Order

Here’s how to avoid problems with straight-ticket voting in Texas

For... Central America. F.B.I. Arrests White Nationalist Leader Who Fled the Country for Central America

It’s okay to let your transgender kid transition — even if they might change their mind in the future

Oh no: Another Storm Victim — Pecan Groves In Southwest Georgia

Lavender’s Soothing Scent Could Be More Than Just Folk Medicine