Entries from December 2018 ↓

• Nancy Roman, ‘Mother of the Hubble’ Telescope, Dies at 93 – The New York Times
• New Horizons : Where to Watch
• T’s Most Thrilling Long Reads From 2018 – The New York Times
• What It’s Like to Be a Female Movie Critic in the #MeToo Era – The New York Times
• FUJIFILM X-T2 Owner’s Manual
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  RT @nytimes: "I don’t know if I’m going to be able to make rent," said one furloughed federal worker, who lost most of her posse…
• A Week Into Government Shutdown, Ire Turns to Fear for Federal Workers – The New York Times
• Bloomberg – Are you a robot?
  RT @bopinion: Seattle’s $15 minimum wage was supposed to crush hiring. Look at what happened instead
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  RT @bopinion: Seattle’s $15 minimum wage was supposed to crush hiring. Look at what happened instead
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  RT @nytimes: Breaking News: The EPA proposed new rules for assessing pollution that would make it easier for power plants to rel…
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  RT @wamandajd: The right-wing conspiracy theory that @Ocasio2018 is secretly wealthy reveals their deep discomfort with class mobi…

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• New E.P.A. Plan Could Free Coal Plants to Release More Mercury Into the Air – The New York Times
• The Twenty-Five Most-Read New Yorker Archive Stories of 2018 | The New Yorker
• I Think About Salman Rushdie’s Thirsty Facebook DM a Lot
• NASA Releases Time-Lapse Of the Disappearing Arctic Polar Ice Cap | Beauty of Planet Earth
• What Does It Mean to Die? | The New Yorker
• One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine – The New York Times
• What’s Changed Since My First Column for Scientific American – Scientific American
• He Hawks Young Blood As A New Miracle Treatment. All That’s Missing Is Proof. | HuffPost
• Cyberattack from outside the U.S. hits newspapers across the country, preventing distribution, source says – Los Angeles Times
• Opinion | The 3 Biggest Challenges for Tech in 2019 – The New York Times
• Montegrappa Chaos Watch & Pens by Sylvester Stallone – YouTube
• Handmade Pens and Original Gifts
• Opinion | Tell Me One More Time What to Do About Grief – The New York Times
• Free living will state forms — Do Your Own Will – Free On-line Will
• Write Your Custom Living Will Form – Step 1
• Migrant Baby Got Pneumonia After Days in ‘Freezing’ Cell
• The Craft of Dragons earrings etched aluminum with | Etsy
• LionessElise on Etsy
• Opinion | A Woman’s Rights – The New York Times
  New laws are treating a fetus as a person, and a woman as less of one, as states charge pregnant women with crimes https://nyti.ms/2ETKRfJ

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• Opinion | Slandering the Unborn – The New York Times
• Netflix’s Bird Box Is About White People Not Wanting to See Racism
• Dry January: Benefits of 1 Month’s Alcohol Abstinence Last Through the Year | Inverse
• What is the Morally Appropriate Language in Which to Think and Write? | Literary Hub
• Syria’s Kurds, Feeling Betrayed by the U.S., Ask Assad Government for Protection – The New York Times
• As 2018 draws to a close, I’m continuing a favorite tradition of mine and sharing my year-end lists. It gives me a moment to pause and reflect on the year through the books, movies, and music that I found most thought-provoking, inspiring, or just plain
• Barack Obama – As 2018 draws to a close, I’m continuing a… | Facebook
• Living Alongside Wildlife: The Species That Went Extinct in 2018

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• When Breath Becomes Air – Lucy and Paul Kalanithi
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  RT @AmirSariaslan: Wow.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/12/business/the-next-recession-financial-crisis.html)
  RT @AmirSariaslan: Wow.
• Death with Dignity Act :: Washington State Department of Health
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  RT @EricLiptonNYT: Pause for a moment and listen to the real sound here of natural gas being burned into the frozen night air. So much…
• Four new mysteries for winter James Bond Jeeves Bertie Wooster review
• Michael Cohen’s cell phone detected near Prague in 2016 | McClatchy Washington Bureau
• What 46 Populist Leaders Did to Democracy – The Atlantic
• Working-class women are too busy for gender theory – but they’re still feminists | US news | The Guardian
• How Much of the Internet Is Fake?
• Respecting the Earth, even in death: Seattle designer proposes human composting | The Seattle Times
• Life after death: Recompose, a soil-based alternative to burial and cremation, moves closer to reality – The Seattle Times
• When a Couch Is More Than a Couch – The New York Times
• Two dying memoirists wrote bestsellers about their final days. Then their spouses fell in love. – The Washington Post

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• Colin O’Brady Completes Crossing of Antarctica With Final 32-Hour Push – The New York Times
• The New York Times on Twitter: "Colin O’Brady became the first person to cross Antarctica alone, unassisted and unaided by wind. He did the final leg in a grueling 32-hour burst. https://t.co/lRRa215VMA"
• Buttery Breakfast Casserole Recipe – NYT Cooking
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  RT @HSIUKorg: BREAKING: #Japan confirms it’s leaving International #Whaling Commission but continuing to kill whales commercially…
• Ask Polly: ‘I’m Scared of Failure’
• Elizabeth Wurtzel on Discovering the Truth About Her Parents
• The Best Stories By People Who Are Not Men, 2018
• Ajit Johnson on Twitter: "Scientists have created 2-deoxyribose (the “D” in DNA) by bombarding simulated meteor ice with UV radiation. This adds to the already extensive list of complex biological compounds that can be formed through astrophysical pro
• Deoxyribose and deoxysugar derivatives from photoprocessed astrophysical ice analogues and comparison to meteorites | Nature Communications
• For the First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian
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  RT @RyanPHaygood: 50 years after the #FairHousingAct, here’s the difficult reality:

  It would take a Black family 228 YEARS

  And a La…

• At The End Of The Year, N.K. Jemisin Ponders The End Of The World : NPR
• Becoming_the_United_States_of_Opportunity_LR_Version.pdf
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  RT @michikokakutani: Democracy continues its disturbing retreat: More than half the countries in an update of a democratic-health index…
• Democracy continues its disturbing retreat – Daily chart
• Japan will resume commercial whaling and leave the IWC. Get the facts.
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  Patagonia’s new company mission is to save the planet
• Patagonia’s new company mission is to save the planet
• Weatherwatch: how do we store surplus renewable energy? | News | The Guardian
• Alcohol, coffee could be key to living longer, study finds | abc7chicago.com
• Why It’s Hard to Escape Amazon’s Long Reach | WIRED
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  RT @wagatwe: The real death panels
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  RT @RuthHHopkins: Remember the #Dakota38, hanged in Mankato, MN on Dec 26, 1862, under the orders of President Abraham Lincoln. It is…
• UN climate talks set stage for humanity’s two most crucial years | Environment | The Guardian
• IWC withdrawal: Japan to resume commercial whaling in 2019 – CNN
• Estudante Flagra Gato Massageando Capivara em Cuiabá/MT – YouTube
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  RT @SangerNYT: Read this remarkable piece of deep reporting and you come to one conclusion: If the US didn’t know it’s arms were b…
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  RT @raju: "truthful not neutral" a wish for journalism in 2019
• The 10 best books of 2018.

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• Two fires in Fremont ruled arson
• The Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Very Litigious Kiini Bikini – The New York Times
• You should always leave your window shade open on an airplane
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  RT @annamerlan: Using "Guatemalan national" instead of a noun like "boy" or "child" or "minor" is a calculated choice too. The typo…
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  RT @latimes: Breaking: An 8-year-old Guatemalan boy died early on Christmas Day in the custody of U.S. immigration authorities,…
• Vala Afshar on Twitter: "Top 5 regrets of the dying: 1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself 2. I wish I hadn’t work so hard 3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings 4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends 5. I wi
• Author’s Note – How Thermochromic Ink Works | HowStuffWorks

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  RT @mutablejoe: review of the year

  Jan: no massive cow
  Feb: no massive cow
  Mar: no massive cow
  Apr: no massive cow
  May: no massive…

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  RT @EricHolthaus: This is a historic op-ed at a historic moment in American history.

  In recent years, we’ve deluded ourselves into t…

• This is what we were afraid of – The Washington Post
• 29 Nonfiction Books Coming Out In 2019 To Start Getting Excited About
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  RT @jessicalustig: On this day in 1940. (This account, which live-tweets WWII as it happened, is reliably chilling and resonant):
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  RT @RepJayapal: #TrumpShutdown: Lila Johnson, 71, has worked as cleaner at State Dept for 2 decades, sweeping floors & scrubbing ba…
• Skin Feeling – The New Inquiry
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  RT @Gwenda: Men who rarely or never read books by women need to fix themselves. Same for white people of any gender who rarely…
• Potato Salad with Bacon and Capers Recipe
• Michael Lewis’s The Fifth Risk Earns The Highest Praise
• Dairy farming is dying. After 40 years, I’m done. – The Washington Post
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  RT @exitthelemming: There are too many brilliant one-liners in @frankieboyle’s review of the year to pick a favourite. But under all th…
• Samuel West on Twitter: "There are too many brilliant one-liners in @frankieboyle’s review of the year to pick a favourite. But under all the laffs, what grips is his profound, principled love for humanity, and conviction that we can and must do better
• Frankie Boyle’s review of 2018: ‘Let’s forget Brexit and enjoy our last Christmas with running water’ | Politics | The Guardian

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• Trump’s Syria withdrawal has handed a huge gift to Islamic State | Janine di Giovanni | Opinion | The Guardian
• Doxazosin (Cardura) Uses, Dosage, Side Effects – Drugs.com
• Some Came Running: Best Films of 2018, and other films
• A Critical Analysis of Bob Dylan’s 2018 Xmas Lights – VICE
• ‘The Effects Cannot Be Overstated’: When Tech Invaded Media – The New York Times
• Opinion | The Postal Worker’s Christmas – The New York Times
• The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2018 | The New Yorker
• Fantastic Beasts and How to Rank Them

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• The Best Podcasts of 2018 – The Atlantic
• The World of Internet Dating and Mating | The New Yorker
• German Potato Salad Recipe – NYT Cooking
• German Potato Salad | Easy Cold German Potato Salad Recipe
• Authentic German Potato Salad Recipe – Allrecipes.com
• Kansas Supreme Court decision in marijuana case hinges on Lawrence officers’ sense of smell – News – The Topeka Capital-Journal – Topeka, KS
• For Trump, ‘a War Every Day,’ Waged Increasingly Alone – The New York Times
• Where Government Is a Dirty Word, but Its Checks Pay the Bills – The New York Times
• Babies in Mexico City Show Signs of Alzheimer’s. Blame Air Pollution.
• Mattis Proved You Can’t Serve Both Trump and America – The Atlantic
• The Enduring Russian Propaganda Interests in Targeting African-Americans | The New Yorker
• Food stamp cut will hit Trump’s single white male base hardest
• Bill’s Year in Books
  Bill Gates
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  RT @CapLounge: Available at 12:01AM
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  RT @theavalkyrie: It was so awesome to be on Test & Code! I hope y’all enjoy this episode.
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  Editors investigate after science journal publishes study with Trump’s face on monkey feces …
• Editors investigate after science journal publishes study with Trump’s face on monkey feces | National Post
• Russia Gloats: ‘Trump Is Ours Again’
  RT @NoahShachtman: Russia gloats: ‘Trump is ours again’

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• Sinking Cities – Los Angeles Review of Books
• Is Estrogen the Key to Understanding Women’s Mental Health?
• The Road to the Iditarod | Outside Online

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