Recommended Reading (11/13/24)

Phew: Ruben Gallego defeats Kari Lake in Arizona Senate race (NPR)

What Life Looks Like for Israelis Living Near Lebanon’s Border (NYT)

Justin Welby to quit as archbishop of Canterbury over handling of abuse scandal (The Guardian)

Haiti swears in a new leader as gangs shoot at a flight landing in the main airport (NPR)

Missing Henry VIII portrait found after random X post (BBC)

NASA's 'Hidden Figures' awarded Congressional Gold Medals for pioneering space work (NPR)

Nelson’s HMS Victory gives scientists vital DNA for battle against deathwatch beetle (The Guardian)

Strawberry Farmworkers Fight for a Living Wage (Civil Eats)

The Great Honeybee Fallacy (The Atlantic)

How ECMO Is Redefining Death (The New Yorker)

The Exploits and Exploitation of Indian Street Magic, Jadoo (CrimeReads)

Release Angles and the Illusion of Waste (Fangraphs)

Recommended Reading (11/12/24)

One piece of good news from Election Day, in case you missed it: Sarah McBride becomes the first out transgender person elected to Congress (NBC News)

Hamas’s Guerrilla Tactics in North Gaza Make It Hard to Defeat (NYT)

Sun, sea and sirens: A summer in Odesa (NPR)

The New Propaganda War (The Atlantic)

More NH communities consider community power (NHPR)

A new copyright rule lets McDonald's fix its own broken ice cream machines (NPR)

Yellowstone’s Wolves: A Debate Over Their Role in the Park’s Ecosystem (NYT)

Aw: Squeezed out: last accordion maker in France to close shop after 105 years (The Guardian)

! A boy snatched from a California park in 1951 is found living on the East Coast (NPR)

Truly the wholesome news I needed today: Art Garfunkel “Cried At Reunion Lunch With Former Musical Partner Paul Simon After 20 Years’ Silence” (Deadline)

What Makes a Wonder? On the Human Need to Map Out Monumental Greatness (LitHub)

What a bioluminescent petunia had to teach me (Knowable)

Recommended Reading (11/8/24)

What Happens to Hamas and Hezbollah Now That Their Leaders Have Been Killed? (The New Yorker)

Why Antisemitism Is Spreading on the Left (Elad Nehorai)

California sues ExxonMobil for misleading public on plastic recycling (NPR)

For LGBTQ+ people facing food insecurity, stigma and other barriers can make it hard to get help (NHPR)

The Cause That Turned Idealists Into Authoritarian Zealots (The Atlantic)

This preventive drug could be a 'game changer' in ending the HIV epidemic (NPR)

Why Is It So Hard to Find Local Fish (Even by the Water)? (NYT)

France’s 31-year treasure hunt for a buried owl statue finally ends (The Guardian)

On Murder Memoirs (Slate)

Is bullet hole proof of Bonnie Prince Charlie assassination attempt? (BBC)

The Unexpected Poetry of PhD Acknowledgements (ANU College of Science)

Jared Jones and the Plight of the Max-Effort Starter (Baseball Prospectus)

Recommended Reading (11/7/24)

Well, here we are. Most of this is going to be...other stuff, because I'm not up to reading a ton of election analysis yet and I figure people need distractions. But I will say that the most helpful post-election message I have seen is (unsurprisingly), this video by Elizabeth Warren.

This was also helpful: the day after (Life Is a Sacred Text)

In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians struggle to access water (NPR)

The Biggest Mystery Of January 6 Remains Unsolved (TPM)

NYT tech workers are making their own games while on strike (The Verge)

Not great! Melting glaciers force Switzerland and Italy to redraw part of Alpine border (The Guardian)

A 27-year-old just became queen of New Zealand's Maori (NPR)

As Museums’ Missions Expand, So Too Does Their Physical Space (NYT)

Is a Plastic Rock a Rock? (Slate)

I gave up meat and gained so much more (Vox)

West Windsor gets rid of a cannon that it never really owned (NHPR)

I'm reading this book now and it's good: The Rare Entertainments of E.C.R. Lorac’s Death of an Author (CrimeReads)