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: 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: FUCK ICE

Mexico’s monarch butterfly population jumps 64%, offering hope for at-risk species

Point Lookout State Park To Adapt Facilities, Build Living Shoreline for Climate Resilience

Which Companies are Turning Food Waste Into Profit, How, and Why

What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled

linework architecture

To see how Koreatown has changed over the years, look at its restaurant menus

Actress Says She’s Found Her Secret Online Abuser: Her Husband

The Nap Room Didn’t Love Me Back

Suleika Jaouad’s Love Letter to a Two-Hundred-Year-Old Farmhouse

Being Alone is a Pleasure – Not a Virtue

Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’?

the things we should never find.

She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway.

The Case for Making Some Things Harder

I’m Not Done with You

How detention causes long-term harm to children

Anti-ICE Organizing Is Creating Counter-Institutions Based on Care

In Gaza, education is a daily act of quiet resistance

Sunday Snippets: Beyond Ceasefire

We have to move beyond the ceasefire. It's past arms embargo time. Far too many people have been killed and this has to stop.

These small Black-owned farms are growing crops with the climate in mind

U.K. dads are wrapping baby slings on male statues to push for more paternity leave

He survived the water, but not the flood

Ohio sheriff suggests residents keep a list of homes with Harris yard signs

'I Don’t Want to Die.' He needed mental health care. He found a ghost network

Shaped by Memory

The comfort of clutter: why stuff brings us joy

Woodrow Wilson Got the Flu in a Pandemic During the World War I Peace Talks

9 Readers Share Their Cozy Corners

Money Changes Everything

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

A ceasefire is still desperately and urgently needed.

This prison newspaper has been publishing for more than a century

Spark Bird

Read the letter that landed Donald Sutherland his role in 'The Hunger Games'

This Brooklyn Home Feels Like a Book-Filled Cabin in the Woods

She thrifted this vase for $4. It turned out to be an ancient Mayan artifact

How the pandemic led this documentary photographer to make her work more collaborative

What It’s Like To Come Out Later In Life, According To Real Women (Who’ve Been There)

House Democrat is proposing a constitutional amendment to reverse Supreme Court’s immunity decision

Rachel Maddow Q&A: MSNBC star dishes on the rise of authoritarianism and her worries about becoming a Trump target

Meet the North Koreans who haven't been able to return home in over 70 years

Sunday Snippets: Flowers

Our front yard is chock full of different flowers and it's lovely to see them before the hard edge of summer makes them wilt.

The Unexpected Grief of a Hysterectomy

California Hero Dog Who Located 62 Lost Pets for Free Has Medical Bills Covered by His Community

Even when women make more than their husbands, they are doing more child care and housework

Florida bill allowing doctors and insurance companies to deny care keeps moving

Nebraska Republican Says Six-Week Abortion Ban Is Necessary Because White People Are Being Replaced

LeRoy Carhart, a doctor well known for performing late-term abortions, has died

They're strangers with a painful shared bond: Robert E. Lee enslaved their ancestors

The ‘open secret’ in most workplaces: Discrimination against moms is still rampant

A forgotten peace petition started after WWI has resurfaced and is inspiring hope

This is a gorgeous house

Sunday Snippets: Summer

Summer is my favorite season, despite the bugs. Trying to enjoy as much of it as I can.

A remote Swedish family home full of craft, colour and pattern

The World Needs Uncles, Too

Now that's an obituary

The Dapper Daredevil Who Documented America’s Skyline in the Making

Many try to return to normal from COVID, but disabled people face a different reality

A hidden self-portrait of Van Gogh has been discovered. Here's what you can see so far

A self-serve grocery store helps feed a small Minnesota town

Uyghur Poems From a Chinese Prison

Sunday Snippets: Ukraine

It is devastating to see the destruction and the fact that this kind of solidarity and help wasn't extended to folks in Syria, Yemen and other countries where the citizens aren't white and the soldiers from Russian were literally kids pulled off the streets.

There is so much horror but so much good too. The helping. The communities. The bravery.

These 17 Rules for Simple Living Are the Best I’ve Ever Seen

How to Make the Internet Small Again

The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying

1794 COLONIAL FOR SALE IN BARNARD VERMONT

1935 STONE HOUSE FOR SALE IN ALTON ILLINOIS

Ukrainian heritage is in peril. The Smithsonian hopes to rescue what it can

Md. students could get excused absence for taking mental health day

Jury acquits only Louisville officer charged in Breonna Taylor raid

How to help residents of Silver Spring apartment fire

Sunday Snippets: Internet

We lost internet for a week and it was because squirrels ate cables on our street.

Little fuzzy bastards.

An epic inheritance fight will soon cost a Texas-born princess her 16th century villa

Omicron Means Parents Are Doing It All Again, Except This Time Dead Inside

What happens when isolation goes beyond a pandemic

COVID Parenting Has Passed the Point of Absurdity

A shipment of cookbooks is lost at sea. Authors hope the fish enjoy the recipes

This unique bookstore and ranch needs a new owner (with $1.52 million to spare).

Protests flare across Poland after death of young mother denied an abortion

‘This alert is her scream’: new system would help locate missing Indigenous women

There's one population that gets overlooked by an 'everyone will get COVID' mentality

1796 FARMHOUSE FOR SALE IN TAMWORTH NEW HAMPSHIRE I WANT

Polar bears move into abandoned Arctic weather station – photo essay

Eight-year-old's handwritten novel takes Idaho town by storm

A butterfly conservatory is shutting down due to right-wing harassment

It's 2022 and People Are Still Confused That My Kids Have Their Mother's Last Name