Sunday Snippets: 40

Turned 40 yesterday. I'm so excited to see what this new decade holds (she says with an asterisk since she said the same thing in December 2019.....)

Mail Between Heaven and Earth: On Japan’s Post Office For Letters to the Dead

Entire police department relieved of duty in West Virginia town

Maryland teen killed at Battle of Camden identified 246 years later through DNA

Apartments Are the Climate Solution Hiding in Plain Sight

Why don't men read books written by women?

Solar energy from railways shows first positive results in Switzerland

How about Free? Is that affordable enough for you?

Climate groups concerned by proposed Maryland building code

The Woman in the Photo Wanted to Be Alone. Instead, She Went Viral.

When the Heat Steals Your Smile

Meet the People Protecting the Night Sky

Welcome to 1953

Enshittification Isn’t Limited to the Digital World

Nara Smith, Lindsay Clancy, Max Miller—and Our National Reckoning on Motherhood

ICE will release body camera video only when seen in the agency’s ‘best interests,’ policy says

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the agency’s policy gives it broad control over what footage will be made public by specifying any releases must be in its “best interests.”

Sunday Snippets: Almost August

August is one of my favorite months. It's a liminal month.

Ukraine approves 80 km/h electric motorcycle that defeats thermal imaging and acoustic detection. It carries two soldiers in full gear

A textile designer’s charming cottage in Portugal, layered with vibrant colour and pattern

The Prairieland Sentences Are a National Emergency

The Architecture of Detention and Deportation: From War-housing to Warehousing

Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat

The Netherlands is sending its worn-out wind turbines to Ukraine instead of the scrapheap

Tending to Paradise

The View from the Tents: Caring at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment

Workers Dredging the Savannah River Stumbled Upon 19 Cannons That Had Been Underwater Since the Revolutionary War

Dingus of the week: Schrödinger’s Mitch McConnell

Air Force Engineer Accused of Cutting Down 13 Police Cameras Says They're Unconstitutional

Detroit artist rescues century-old Flint Faience tiles from abandoned Highland Towers before demolition

Disaster declarations ripple through South Texas amid water crisis

Sharks Have Individual Personalities, and One Naps on His Favorite Toy

I See My Father in the Fathers Killed by ICE

Notes from a burning Paris

Black Books Matter Fest returns to MahoganyBooks with a lineup of award-winning authors

Sunday Snippets: Kitty and a foiled bank robbery!?

It's not every day that my town shows up on The Guardian and NBC 4 News.

Losing Paradise

Spotlight on Asia’s vultures 20 years after game-changing drug ban

Letters from Delaney Hall

‘Cloud-milking’: the zero-energy technique keeping young trees alive

Maryland’s first ‘human composting’ facility is open for business

These Black Georgians Refuse to Be Silenced

Men Are in an Epidemic, Just Not the One You Think

Construction is a man's game. These women are demolishing the barriers

Why an Activist From Texas Crossed the World to Confront Asia’s Biggest Petrochemical Company

“That Guy Is Still Out There”

Scientists who identified remains of Revolutionary war soldier from Maryland hope to name others

Everyone Has a Role to Play in Supporting the Strike at Delaney Hall ICE Jail

House passes bill to ‘ditch the switch’ and make daylight saving time permanent

Too Many Books?