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: NO FUCKING KINGS

I hope you had a chance to get out to a #NoKings protest yesterday. They matter. We matter.

How high school students are organizing walkouts against ICE

The Scottish island that bought itself

This Pill Treats Postpartum Depression. So Why Don’t More People Take It?

Ireland’s basic income for artists changed my life. Other people deserve the same luck

Ohio bill would require fetal life and death certificates

Plagued by Flooding, an African City Reengineers Its Wetlands

The LA wildfire survivors still living in toxic homes: ‘We have nowhere else to go’

Maryland sheriffs are considering taking legal action against the State over ICE 287(g) ban

It’s time to oust Stephen Miller

Native American tribes in the West are trying — and succeeding — in getting ancestral lands back

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein

USPS cutting delivery days ‘on the table,’ as agency runs out of cash, postmaster general tells lawmakers

Bill bans those convicted in the Jan. 6 attack on US Capitol from serving on Maryland boards

YouTube Face Has Infected the Internet

‘No Kings’ protests erupt across the US, with a Minnesota focus

Sunday Snippets: April 5th

April 5th is a big day of in person protests, if you're able. From Indivisible with more information.

COVID is still evolving and will find new ways to evade immune systems, scientists say

Editorial board resigns after journal cancels special issue on Palestine

Tesla shares plunge 15%, suffering steepest drop in five years

Time to Ditch the COVID-era Judginess

10 Reasons Not to Shop Amazon

Meet the federal worker who went rogue: ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’

B.C. woman detained at U.S. border, sent to Arizona detention facility in chains

African HIV vaccine trial stopped due to Trump cuts

My Search For Refaat Alareer’s Body

'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts

GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors

Take a Look: A Dark Scottish Isle Where Starlight Reigns Supreme

12 Women on Living Alone

With Trump's crackdown on DEI, some women fear a path to good-paying jobs will close

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

Dire situation on vanishing Tangier Island captured by new documentary

French academic denied entry to US for ‘personal opinion’ on Trump

Strikes in Gaza kill 85 overnight, bringing the total since Israel broke ceasefire to nearly 600

Sunday Snippets: Nikki Giovanni

We lost a beautiful amazing soul this week. I have been reading her work for many years and even included her poem, Resignation, when I got married. It sucks so much that she's gone.

Women Are Getting Sterilized After Donald Trump's Victory: 'Only Option'

‘Enshittification’ Is Officially the Biggest Word of the Year

I'm 45 And I Look My Age

On Having Expectations – Even When Doing Things for Free

What One Mass Rape Case Shows about the Depth of Rape Culture

      Dominique Pelicot now bemoans the way the trial has destroyed his life and seeks forgiveness from his family. When asked by his defense lawyers about the possibility of winning back his wife, he said: “It is important to have hope,” and again emphasized his own trauma.

America’s Sickness

The year of hetero discontent

Supreme Court term-limits amendment proposed by Sens. Manchin, Welch

Some good climate news, for once: Md. leads in carbon emissions reductions

Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project

Archaeologists Work with Indigenous Peoples, Department of Natural Resources to Uncover History at Chapel Point State Park

Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81