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.”