Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Eating the Ocean
Vox’s Future Perfect takes pride in being one of the top destinations in media for consistent, rigorous, ethically clear-eyed coverage of one of the biggest stories of our time — the mass production of billions of animals for food on factory farms. But there’s arguably an even bigger, even more neglected story hidden within that […]
How to survive awkward encounters
Thanksgiving is the Super Bowl of awkwardness. You love these people (mostly), but the scripts are fuzzy. Do we hug? Do we talk politics? What do I say when someone hits me with the third “so, how’s work?” in an hour? We tend to treat that discomfort as a “me” problem, like we’re bad at […]
How Donald Trump and the CEO of the world’s biggest company became BFFs
The biggest company in the world is Nvidia, and it’s been making the same product since 1993: a specialized computer chip called a GPU, or a graphics processing unit. Those chips do all the fancy, complicated math needed to display images, videos, and 3D graphics onto our screens. Back in the day, if you wanted […]
The hidden disease that spikes every Thanksgiving
Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a silent killer that lurks among us, helping to claim millions of lives every year. According to a new study published in The Lancet, the number of kids under age 19 who have high blood pressure has doubled worldwide since 2000. The rest of the population isn’t […]
How Trump changed what “terrorism” means
The State Department designated Venezuela’s “Cartel de los Soles” as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) on Monday as part of an escalating campaign aimed at forcing President Nicolás Maduro from power. The designation comes amid an ongoing campaign of US strikes on suspected drug boats that has killed more than 80 people, the largest build-up […]