Yes, Brussels Sprouts Taste Better Now—Here’s Why
Brussels sprouts bitter flavor was bred out of them in the 1990s, and ever since then, they’ve been a vegetable you’ll actually want to eat.
Horse- race journalism
Journalists need to stop covering elections like horse races. Don’t obsess over who’s winning—help us decide who to vote for.
Horse-race journalism perpetuates the image of journalists as detached observers.
The horse race fills the insatiable news hole. Every day, a new poll or gaffe. Candidates’ stands on the issues, their experience and competence don’t change much over the course of a campaign—they don’t make news—but they are more important.
Daily Tar Heel staffer Georgia Roda-Moorhead: “We are the Sandy Hook generation. We grew up crouching behind desks in pitch-black darkness, as our teachers barred the doors shut in case a ‘scary person’ stepped on campus."
What time do Americans have dinner? Which state eats dinner earliest? Latest?
Using data from the American Time Use Survey, between 2018 to 2022, we can see the percentage of households in the country who were eating during a given time.
“The Corduroy Appreciation Society was a club where people gathered secretly to celebrate their love of corduroy." On the delightful Articles of Interest podcast with Avery Trufelman.
It's Time to Talk About 'Pandemic Revisionism'
Epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina discusses school closures, mask mandates and the pandemic response, on the Ezra Klein show, with guest host David Wallace-Wells, a New York Times science and public policy journalist
Political discussions today focus on school, shut-downs, lockdowns, masking, and whether the economic stimulus was too big. We’re not discussing the big question of whether we could have prevented 1.1 million deaths in the US alone.
Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist and the author of the popular newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist. She argues that we’ve entered a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: “pandemic revisionism.” In her telling, the revisionist impulse seduces us into swapping cheap talking points for the thorny, difficult decisions we actually faced – and may face again with the next novel virus.
No maybe about it. We will face those questions again.
In the 2020 election, Biden rightly said that Trump was unfit for office because Trump’s handling of the Covid crisis resulted in 200,000 dead Americans. During the Biden administration, far more Americans have died than while Trump was in office, and many of those deaths were preventable
Biden’s Covid policy has been to pretend that the vaccine solved the problem. 900,000 dead Americans disagree.
My 20-year-old self-inking return-address stamp still works. That is some seriously well-made self-inking technology.
Continuing with decluttering my home office. Can all the drawers in all the furniture be junk drawers?