Sunday Snippets: 250 Years

I mourn the idea and not memory of what celebrating 250 years would have been, had the election gone the other way. I mourn a lot in the last two years, the last ten years.

The Museum of Joanna Goddard

Important Progress on AI Data Centers in Maryland

How a Hospital Librarian Spends Their Days

The ‘Tincture’ of Time

Plan to auction over 100 Titanic artifacts faces US government opposition

Gov. Beshear posthumously pardons 43 people who helped enslaved individuals escape to freedom

Cozy Backyard Reading Retreat That Looks Like an Amazing Tiny House

How Hollywood Does Abortion: Not Well, Expert Says

Being Black in Pete Hegseth’s Military

Ancient DNA helps identify bones of a lost governor and his family

The Feeding

Is a Bike Bus the Most Joyful Way to Get to School?

Archaeologists find huge Viking textile production site in Denmark

Happy Fucking Birthday

Native Americans celebrate victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn, 150 years later

Finding real national pride on America’s 250th birthday

Sunday Snippets: Algae

The drain the swamp jackass made a swamp. If this were in a novel, no one would believe it.

5.5M ground nesting bees make home in Ithaca cemetery

8 Ways to Display Art in Your Kitchen

How Great Are These Wedding Photos?!

Are all husbands "Strangers"?

Cat ladies aren’t that ‘crazy’ after all – the social science behind the stereotype

Women Have Sacrificed Too Much for the Careers of Powerful Men: Analysis

AP exclusive: Under Notre Dame cathedral, a ‘dig of the century’ unearths 1,700 years of history

Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season

How a kindergarten teacher became the accidental guardian of 200 king penguins

It's Time For a Shademaking Movement

Mangrove forests are healing after decades of human destruction

Plans for Maryland vineyard, resort raise neighbors’ concerns

America’s Marriage Historian Says We’re in a Tug-of-War With the Past

Debugging on a major scale: Google seeks to unleash millions of sterile male mosquitoes

18th-Century Shipwreck Discovered in Deep Water Near Norway

Sunday Snippets: Almost Solistice

Halfway through the year and it's been a year for sure!

The nation holding back the sea

Morley Safer of 60 Minutes was my father. He would be disgusted by what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS

Inside and outside

The Spanish Exception

Why rescue donkeys are wearing donated socks from a pro soccer team

As floods get worse, Britain tries a new solution: beavers

Resistance is only half the equation

The ripple effects of organizing against data centers

Senate panel pans DHS plan to stop customs processing at blue-city airports

For Black Women in Abusive Relationships, Gun‑Control Loopholes Can Engender Deadly Disparities

Faster Slaughterhouse Line Speeds Are Increasingly a Climate Problem

Trump plan would reopen Western Maryland coal plant

Rising costs of fuel, other goods squeeze already strained abortion funds

This Heat

The Biggish Picture

As Capitalism Gasps for Breath I Watch the Knicks Game

Plans for Maryland vineyard, resort raise neighbors’ concerns

Sunday Snippets: Crumbling

The shit is crumbling. The dynasty he wanted ain't gonna happen.

Tenderly Tracking My Husband

We love Olivia Benson

Residents fear Frederick County will be the new ‘data center alley’

In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations

I Turned Off My Phone for a Month and Used a Landline No texts, no Instagram, no subway Slack.

When ICE arrests you, what happens to your car?

I Fed the People Building the Metaverse

                  "The machine inherits its makers."

Troubled Water

Designer Sam Masters Waited 16 Years to Land His 420-Square-Foot Apartment

What I Witnessed In Palestine Made Me Think About My Gun

                “You like geese?” he asks with a smirk.

                 “No, I’m more of a birds of prey guy,” I reply, still staring at the geese.

                  “Ah,” he clicks his tongue. “You Americans, you always like things that kill.”

More people are going hungry now than at the height of the pandemic

Trump admin is terminating a vast network of ocean monitors

New research connects climate change to increasing heat-related heart disease nationally

'It's so chaotic': Humpback whales are forming super-groups

Sleep is delicious

"This celebration of sleep evokes recent critiques of unbridled capitalism – a rejection of hyper-productivity, often associated with exploitative labour practices. In his Aeon essay, the political theorist Jonathan White has shown that sleeping in sync with our natural circadian rhythms is a matter of political justice. Not only does poor sleep often accompany socioeconomic inequality, it also detracts from the capacity to cope with difficult life circumstances. ‘Poor sleep is a corrosive disadvantage – one that yields more of the same,’ he writes. White advocates for what he calls ‘circadian justice’, which would require a radical, but not impossible, restructuring of society so that everyone’s circadian rhythms are respected, and people are free to choose work schedules that suit their needs."

Sunday Snippets: June

Not sure how we are halfway through the year already. Time feels like it's galloping like a cheetah these days.

D.C. Third-Party Power Customers Paid 70 Percent More Than Pepco Rates, Costing Households Millions

Free grocery market set to open inside Prince George’s County library to fight food insecurity

‘You cannot unbird yourself’: Black Birders Week and the appeal of the outdoors for all

A 185‑year‑old diary is the center of the Anacostia Community Museum’s new exhibit

Georgia uncorks the value of Stalin's 40,000-bottle wine collection

NJ Senate approves bill to protect reproductive, transgender healthcare

Erin Brockovich Targets AI Industry With New Data Center Map

The Hard Truth My Party Needs to Face

Tenderly Tracking My Husband

What ‘Special Needs Mommy’ Influencers Get Wrong About Parenting Disabled Kids: Opinion

Pizza Hut owner pushes classic vibe, open to DC expansion

FDA moves ahead with safety study of abortion pill mifepristone

Sunday Snippets: Are we great again yet?

We are pepper spraying senators trying to check on our most vulnerable and are installing a fighting ring that looks straight out of Idiocracy.

‘A mask can’t hide you from God’: can you shame an ICE agent into quitting?

New species of giant dinosaur identified from remains found in Thailand

New Hawaii law targets corporate influence in politics after Citizens United ruling

‘Very demure, very mindful’: how Jools Lebron went viral – and her life fell apart

This woman found a 3-carat uncut diamond in an Arkansas state park

What ‘Childlore’ Do You Still Remember?

‘Here, I am shrinking.’ Can this teen poet find her place in America?

Lane County’s advanced recycling facility aims to generate renewable energy and lower landfill use

Moore won’t sign immigration bills, but lets them become law

Venezuelan makeup artist who was deported to El Salvador seeks asylum in Spain: ‘I feel safe here’

How a kindergarten teacher became the accidental guardian of 200 king penguins

Women-led patrols and fire prevention restore forests in northern Thailand

Md. county sheriffs file lawsuit challenging Community Trust Act

From ICE to Iran, veterans are challenging US militarism

Rare plant discovered in Maryland added to state endangered list

‘I’m a rare bird, still’: Why Black bird watchers are celebrating their love of nature out loud

Watchdog group accuses Blanche of misconduct in Tennessee prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Sunday Snippets: Late May

How is it almost June?

DNA reveals identities of 4 sailors from doomed 1845 Franklin expedition

Blood, Sweat & Tears

America is giving dying mall vibes

A Community Takes a Data Center Colossus to Court

forget the dolls

Gotcha! Odd language mistakes may help identify fake papers

Metal detectorist 'could have found belongings of Iron Age queen'

What Objects Can—and Should—Reveal About Their Owners

You & I Are Earth

‘Super fun’: The tale of how a prehistoric shark became Maryland’s official state shark

Art, sex, nature: why is everything sold to us as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself?

Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area

Metro: It's Not Easy Being Green

Sunday Snippets: Stephen Colbert

The fact that Trump, among his many fucking crimes, could just decide get someone fired for free speech, still boggles.

Precrime is no longer science fiction

A passage from Homer’s Iliad has been discovered inside the abdomen of a Roman-era Egyptian mummy

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

Inside a hidden summer camp where trans youth in the South thrive

For The First Time In More Than A Century, Baby Eaglets Hatch In Chicago

When the habitat of an endangered bat went up in smoke, this ecologist dedicated herself to ending wildfires

START HERE > The Houses That Knew How to Breathe

Recreating the smells of history

NASA Rolls Out Artemis III Moon Rocket Core Stage

Mothers are the most underestimated force for change

‘We laced Nicole into her corset and her rib broke again’: Moulin Rouge at 25 – an oral history by cast and crew

On Parenting and Consent: When Sharing Isn’t Caring

Let's TALK climate

‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds

Condoms in Romance: Tracking Down Claims About Firsts

Does crying actually make you feel better? New psychology research shows it depends on a key factor

Sunday Snippets: Keep Pushing Back

I will not sit on my hands to watch shit go down in flames. Keep speaking out, keep calling your reps, keep donating (if you can!), keep making fucking noise.

Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind

For The People Newsletter Vol. XXXVIII

Running Toward ICE

New Orleans program does free house calls for new mothers. It’s saving many from going over a postpartum ‘cliff’

What really happened during the Black Death

ICE Is Planning New Fast-Track Construction Contracts

Pizza Hut's 'BOOK IT!' Summer Reading Program Returns to Provide Voracious Young Readers with Pizza Parties and More

"Men Are Scary."

My Daughter Has Autism. Here’s What I Want You To Know.

How to Take Better Photos of Moms (Listen Up, Dads)

Palestinian students are fighting for their right to education

The Warehouse, in Plain Sight

To Battle Climate Change, a Baltimore Church Turns to Nature

The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon

NYC Intercoms

When will men carry the weight of their own violence?

Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass

But his longer-term concerns are about deeper matters than job losses. In a roughly 20,000-word essay about A.I. risks posted to his personal blog in January, he warned that A.I. may create “an unemployed or very-low-wage ‘underclass’” for people with “lower intellectual ability.” That group would grow to encompass more of the population as A.I.’s capabilities allow it to outpace more humans. In that world, what’s at risk is not only wages but democracy itself. “The balance of power of democracy is premised on the average person having leverage through creating economic value. If that’s not present, I think things become kind of scary,” Mr. Amodei said last year to Axios.

Sunday Snippets: May

Somehow already May in this year that feels 10 years long.

Who Is L.A.’s Hero Posting Up These Anti-ICE Parking Signs?

Anti-data center measures gain traction at state, local level

Researchers have spent decades breeding better potatoes for chips, and their work isn’t done

An Exclusive First Look at Deesha Philyaw’s The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman 

Summons

How Ann Arbor, Michigan, is creating its own clean energy utility

Meet These Delightful Bookshop Cats (and One Dog!)

This common plant could clean microplastics from your drinking water

Endometriosis Is Often Excruciating. Pelvic Floor Therapy Can Help Some Patients.

When will men carry the weight of their own violence?

We're About to Enter A Thrifting Golden Age

Guerrilla Battle Over Padlocks and Tourist Trash on the Brooklyn Bridge

The Trump Admin Wants To Test Drinking Water For Abortion And Birth Control Pills

Love Poem to Taco Bell

'A remarkable time capsule': The enchanting history of Oxford University's 750-year-old medieval library

Why weekends are under threat