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: 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: MEN

I grew up in a violent household. Seeing what happened to Cerina Fairfax and the beautiful children in Louisiana...it's so unbelievably fucked and so predictable in this misogynist society.

‘Another internet is possible’: Norway rails against ‘enshittification’

A Domestic Violence Center Needed a New Home. This Brooklyn Church Answered the Call

41 Ways Washington, DC Leads in Sustainability

If you kill your wife, you don't get to be a husband anymore

Volunteers turn a fan’s recordings of 10,000 concerts into an online treasure trove

Beavers can turn riverbeds into powerful carbon sinks, new research shows

Citizen ‘Frog Patrol’ helps amphibians survive a dangerous road journey in Poland

ICE at Airports Trains Us to Accept Being Terrorized in Our Daily Lives

Black Professor Sews Quilt Honoring Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer

Israel Has Buried Gaza in Rubble, But Our Love for the Land Will Always Survive

How a Navy photographer snapped an iconic Artemis II astronaut photo

100+ journalists applaud the Internet Archive's role In preserving the public record

Meanwhile It Rains for Two Weeks and the Heat Never Breaks

The Onion reaches new deal to take over Alex Jones’ Infowars

Sunday Snippets: FFS

Just what the fuck.

Ambient heat and early childhood development: a cross-national analysis

How Wall Street Ruined the Roomba and Then Blamed Lina Khan

Woman Buys Cat Ornament for $25 at Estate Sale—Then Realizes Its True Value

She filed a discrimination lawsuit for endometriosis. She won.

A Look at the History of Racial Violence in Montgomery County

Black Men Endured Sexual Exploitation Under Slavery. Their Story Is Rarely Told.

What the COVID-19 Pandemic Revealed About Abortion Access—Research

Accidental Bookmarks

Ancient bacteria strain discovered in ice cave is resistant to some modern antibiotics

Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China’s Wind and Solar Buildout

Indigenous guardians successfully keep extractives out of Ecuador’s Amazon forests

Amid Trump’s War on Antifa, Activists Face Arrest for Zines and Group Chats

The Heart in the Hand

Community saddened after Little Free Library is stolen from outside Park Heights salon

A U.S. veteran adopted an orphan from Iran. Decades later, ICE is trying to deport her

Burning Down the House

Alison Piepmeyer’s House Is Filled With Books and “Dramatic” Paint

Sunday Snippets: FUCK ICE

FUCK ICE FOREVER AND EVER

Say Goodbye to Water Pipes: Japan Built a Machine That Purifies and Recycles Every Drop of Water in Your Home

If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books?

Clitoris Researcher Wants You to Know Everything This Sex Organ Can Do

Verdigris: The Color of Oxidation, Statues, and Impermanence

Tribune photographer describes capturing viral image from recent ICE protest

Trump admin is trying to deport LGBTQ+ asylum-seekers to countries where they'd be killed, lawyers say

I grew up with Alex Pretti

Study shows your genes determine how fast your DNA mutates with age

The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good

‘We have to go out and touch people’: how activism is tackling the US loneliness epidemic

‘Millions of Avoidable Deaths’: Climate Change Health Harms Reach Unprecedented Levels

This photographer was tackled by ICE

Researchers find trees could spruce up future water conservation efforts

Emergency legislation seeks to block ICE detainment facility in Elkridge

Maryland House, Senate pass bills to end 287(g) law enforcement partnership with ICE

Sunday Snippets: FUCK ICE

FUCK ICE FOREVER

10 rules of resistance for #ICEOut

What’s it going to take to get to mass strikes?

Quilt Shanty

Macaulay Library’s Best Bird Photos 2026

What I tell My Kids, and What We Do from Here

Here's what I'm thinking

Hope core and joy bait

Empty vehicles, dropped calls: The eerie scenes as ICE came to Maine

The taking of Liam Ramos reveals the sheer sadism of ICE

‘I was probably just as lost as my callers’: my six months as a telephone psychic

There is no such thing as other people’s children

Ukrainian History Global Initiative

DHS buys warehouse in Maryland to possibly hold detained immigrants

A (Petite) Week of Outfits: Caitlin Abber

Brendan Fraser, 57, Has Nothing Left to Prove

How much can a city take?

After COP30, Indigenous narratives are more important than ever

Sunday Snippets: Fuck ICE

In case that was unclear

Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England

133-year old Kodak says it might have to cease operations

Weeks After a Heat Wave Baked the US, Democrats Push to Declare Heat a Major Disaster

The Red Onion Font

D.C. has been under tighter federal control before. Here's what it looked like

Israel Reportedly Discussing Expelling Palestinians to War-Torn South Sudan

An SF startup is pitching Trump on militarizing humanoid robots

Texas lawmaker stuck in House floor over GOP 'permission slip' rule

Too much to pack, not enough hugs: A Kenyan man's last 48 hours in America

New US Postal Service stamp honors Holocaust survivor and humanitarian Elie Wiesel

First We Gave AI Our Tasks. Now We’re Giving It Our Hearts.

Bluesky silenced trans voices over J.K. Rowling, here’s why

Who Says You Can’t Live Off the Grid in Manhattan?

It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”

Sunday Snippets: Just fuck

That fucking bill passed, ICE gets more fucking money and babies were swept away in Texas. Fuck.

It’s Time to Log Off

A Town’s Single Largest Taxpayer Is Also Its Biggest Headache

The Loyalist

Photos: Why it took courage for these women to pose for the camera

First Time in 100 Years: Young Kayakers on a Ride for the Ages

A charming cabin on Sweden's west coast becomes an inspiring retreat for its creative owners

Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported

Photos: Decades in, these women's love was 'Hidden Once, Hidden Twice'

He Made Gay Marriage the Law of the Land. Now He’s Fighting a Larger War.

‘Even if we stop drinking we will be exposed’: Parts of France have banned tap water. Is it a warning for the rest of Europe?

Scientists engineer mosquito STD to combat malaria

Photos: Texas grapples with devastation from deadly flooding

As women have far fewer babies, the U.S. and the world face unprecedented challenges

Sunday Snippets: Keep Calling, Keep Showing Up

Telsa stock is down, poll numbers down, we are making a difference!

A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it

Tucson lawyer receives letter from DHS, telling her to leave the United States

FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say

Is a Journaling Club a Brilliant Way to Make Friends?

The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights

Seattle officers who attended Jan. 6 rally ask US Supreme Court to keep their identities anonymous

U.S.-Born Doctor Speaks Out After Getting Email From ICE Demanding She Leave The U.S. Immediately

Photographer in disbelief after eerie beach discovery raises questions: 'I recovered clothing ... from different eras'

Last-minute change to human sexuality bill removes requirement to teach topic of consent

The Women Who Think the World Needs More Babies

Abrego Garcia’s Wife Forced to Go Into Hiding Thanks to Team Trump

Trump DOJ: Providing Basic Sewer Services to Black People Is Actually “Illegal DEI”

People have been dumping corpses into the Thames since at least the Bronze Age, study finds

“It’s About Him”: Renowned White House Photographer Pete Souza on How Trump Is Perverting the Presidential Photo Stream

Pete Hegseth says he will end a Trump-backed Pentagon program for women

Sunday Snippets: Arms Embargo

Palestine still matters. The people still matter.

In an Internment Camp, All They Had Was Baseball. A New Generation Is Back to Play.

Resolve: 8 Reasons That Keep Me Going

A photographer's devastating documentation of El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s

After 15 years, Megan Atherton reunites with her 'Unsung Hero'

The American Nightmare Is A Rerun

School Shooter Drills Are Getting Stricter Guidelines In Maryland

Lawsuit challenges Minnesota abortion access in federal court

PHOTOS: A drone's eye view of 'foodscapes,' from cattle to soybeans to shrimp

The ‘Internet of Animals’ Could Transform What We Know About Wildlife

Photos: See inside the Bidens' last White House Christmas

Sunday Snippets: The Road Ahead

We lean into community, we don't obey in advance, we rebuild the world we want. This will take all of us.

Researchers are learning more about ‘Zosia,’ the 17th century ‘vampire’ buried with a blade over her neck

How France uncovered the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris

Scientists find a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten in the Siberian permafrost

Strata: Layered Watercolor Gradients

"My Project 2025" A New Poem By Me

LaTonya Yvette’s Brooklyn Home Feels Like a Soft Place to Land

Maryland Is Training More Health Workers To Offer Abortion Care

'I want my womb removed but doctors say I'm too young'

Dorothy Allison, Your Florida Is My Florida

As China cracks down on bookstores at home, Chinese-language booksellers are flourishing overseas

The fight for Alex Jones' Infowars company heats up as Jones sues to hold on

Cold, dark... and not remotely miserable: How to live your best winter life

Sundays Snippets: Beyond Ceasefire

There needs to be an arms embargo. Now.

Stunning photos of a vast e-waste dumping ground — and those who make a living off it

Trump White House curtailed FBI's Kavanaugh probe, report finds

Menopause tests and anti-ageing face oils: welcome to midlife consumerism

How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war

Helene, climate disasters, and what we owe to each other

Poem of the Week | October 14, 2024

'My losses started the day I was born': A poet on what it’s like to call Gaza home

Helene’s damage to North Carolina’s Green River affects businesses that depend on it

New set of Megalodon teeth discovered in Maryland

Sunday Snippets: Beyond Ceasefire

How many more lives have to be lost?

Parents Should Ignore Their Children More Often

A downed power line is officially blamed for last year’s Maui wildfire

It's harder to pay and travel for abortion care, but support funds are struggling

Shovel by shovel, N.C. towns dig out from Helene mud and debris

Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates returns to nonfiction with his essay collection 'The Message'

How Do You Forgive the People Who Killed Your Family?

Trump-endorsed Bibles meet requirements laid out for Oklahoma schools

Genuine Connection is Ease

Mount Vernon’s massive new library is a ‘national model’ for rural development

Birders argue over plan to change dozens of bird names

Photos: Hurricane Milton slams Florida

Lynx, tiger and tadpoles, oh my: See the Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

We need to press and INSIST that if Harris and Walz want our votes, they need to stop the goddamn genocide going on in Gaza. Yes, Trump is a fucking goblin from the deep but Harris and Walz aren't entitled to anything.

Baltimore DPW workers have no water or AC during dangerous heat advisory

Scientists discover ‘dark’ oxygen being produced more than 13,000 feet below the ocean surface

Astronomers are scrambling to save the world's most powerful X-ray space telescope

Why many scientists fear a second Trump term

A flood of emotions in these stoic portraits of people returning home after a deluge

Hopescrolling

Grief is not a process with five stages. It is shattered glass

The Belgian town where families take in people with psychiatric conditions

A photographer captured the perfect shot of an Olympic surfer's record-breaking ride

Gangsta rapper to grandfather: The Olympic gold rebranding of Snoop Dogg

Disposable Heroes

With attention on Gaza, Jewish settlers expand in the West Bank

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Ceasefire is needed. Absolutely needed.

 ‘Will I ever retire?’: millennials wonder what’s on the other side of middle age

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing.

Beethoven was a classical and romantic composer, but his body was full of heavy metal

Dispatch #38: The Mommy Experiment

ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability — but it can improve

She was the target of an Iranian assassination plot. She now lives in its shadow

How these Ukrainian artists are using their talents to support the war effort

After a tragedy, a mother wants to soften the rooms where police interview victims

Hot Menopausal Woman Summer

Juneau man’s 70-year-old photos could help preserve cultural knowledge for King Island Inupiat community

Scientists discover plastic-eating marine fungus on debris floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: 'Once the plastic has been carried there, it gets trapped there'

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: Ceasefire

Ceasefire. This has got to stop.

The Cloud Under the Sea

Hobbyist photographer snaps photo of extremely rare bird in 1st U.S. sighting

Woman Reading

Pregnant women in Missouri can't get divorced. Critics say it fuels domestic violence

She survived the 1970 Kent State shooting. Here's her message to student activists

Largest-ever marine reptile found with help from an 11-year-old girl

Atomic vets are on the verge of losing federal benefits. Congress hasn't helped

Here’s how a Prince George’s Co. facility is making better, safer batteries

Climate change

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Sending love and solidarity to those on college campuses protesting; all the professors and students and allies.

These dreamy photos of historical Cairo will transport you to another time

Now That We Do Everything Else From Home, Why Don't We Try Living In It?

These Breathtakingly Beautiful Small Towns Will Make You Want to Go Off the Beaten Path

Military families in Hawaii spark trial over 2021 jet fuel leak that tainted water

Dali ship that wrecked Baltimore bridge was 'unseaworthy' before it left port, city claims

The Perfect Origin for Walking Dead's Zombie Virus Is from an Underrated Stephen King Book

Should Writers Have a Newsletter?

Elisabeth Bik, expert in scientific integrity: ‘We need to slow down scientific publishing’

Photos of a 3-year friendship that ended with an unsolved murder in New Mexico

Photos: Campus protests continue nationwide as some turned violent

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Ceasefire. Ceasefire. Ceasefire.

substack f***'d up and now we have to talk about it

Photos: Documenting the war in Gaza as the Palestinian death toll passes 25,000

Cold War Bunker Turned Mansion In Missouri Can Be Yours

New fossils suggest kelp forests have swayed in the seas for at least 32 million years

World groundwater levels showing 'accelerated' decline - study

Tiny Flying Rainbows

Japan's village with the oldest population is wooing young residents to survive

Patients say keto helps with their mental illness. Science is racing to understand why

Is it normal to cry over rotten produce?

Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE

The Subversive Act of Photographing Palestinian Life

How to Save Corporate Modernist Architecture

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

My continual prayer is one for a ceasefire. I hope we achieve it in 2024, along with peace for the Palestinian people.

A New Orleans neighborhood confronts the racist legacy of a toxic stretch of highway

New Michigan law means people leaving prison will automatically be registered to vote

After 38 years on the job, Santa Luke still has time for everyone. Yes, you too

solstice

Prize-winning photos by Rohingya: Unseen life in the world's largest refugee camp

2023 in photos: NPR station photographers share memorable moments