A Love Letter To America

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/13/a-love-letter-to-america/

I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person

"And even though my job requires me to commit sociopathic acts of evil that directly contribute to making the world a measurably worse place from Monday through Friday, five days a week, from morning to night, outside work, I'm actually a really good person."

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-work-for-an-evil-company-but-outside-work-im-actually-a-really-good-person

5 Inconvenient Facts All Librarians Should Know About E-Books

https://librarianth.home.blog/2025/11/07/5-inconvenient-facts-all-librarians-should-know-about-e-books/

How to prioritize your mental health amid current events

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/how-to-prioritize-mental-health-living-in-unprecedented-times

‘Why does my toddler … ?’ Your kiddo’s most confounding behavior, decoded

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5501530/why-does-my-toddler-your-kiddos-most-confounding-behavior-decoded

Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider loves music so much, she might just eat it

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5552518

After 4-day workweek success, this company took it a step further

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/lumen-seo-32-hour-workweek

The Lamp Theory Explains Why It’s Hard To Find A Good Partner

https://www.yourtango.com/love/lamp-theory-explains-why-hard-find-good-partner-older

How modern life makes us sick – and what to do about it

about:reader?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fbooks%2F2025%2Fsep%2F21%2Fhow-modern-life-makes-us-sick-and-what-to-do-about-it

Antiscience Is an Existential Threat

https://time.com/7317436/science-threat-climate-change-public-health-rfk-jr/

Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/lest-we-forget-the-horrors-an-unending-catalog-of-trumps-cruelties-collusions-corruptions-and-crimes

Paris Flashmob Does Bo Rhap

https://www.neatorama.com/2025/09/11/Paris-Flashmob-Does-Bo-Rhap/

SomaFM set to celebrate 25 years streaming indie gems in SF | The City | sfexaminer.com

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/the-city/somafm-set-to-celebrate-25-years-streaming-indie-gems-in-sf/article_a666b35e-9690-48fd-94fb-5a72234792f4.html

This is one of my favorite music sources… many channels, all commercial free.

How to perform a reverse phone number lookup

https://www.engadget.com/mobile/how-to-perform-a-reverse-phone-number-lookup-130004364.html

Tired of AI? You Don't Have to Use It

https://www.howtogeek.com/everyone-expects-me-to-use-ai-heres-why-i-dont/

Four-day week becoming 'very common' among Dutch workers, economist reveals

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/four-day-week-becoming-very-common-among-dutch-workers-economist-reveals/ar-AA1LkIxJ

Don’t like joining in? Why it could be your superpower

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/24/dont-like-joining-in-why-it-could-be-your-superpower

25 Local Habits And Behaviours That Stunned Americans After Returning From Travel

https://www.demilked.com/us-expats-reverse-culture-shock/

Micro-robot offers new hope for kidney stone treatment

https://newatlas.com/medical-devices/micro-robot-kidney-stones/

‘Quiet cracking’ is spreading in offices: Half of workers are at breaking point, and it’s costing companies $438 billion in productivity loss

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/quiet-cracking-spreading-offices-half-153018751.html?guccounter=1

What is Resistant Starch? - The Johns Hopkins Patient Guide to Diabetes

https://hopkinsdiabetesinfo.org/what-is-resistant-starch/

'Dying people pay me £5,000 to crash their funerals and reveal their secrets'

https://metro.co.uk/2025/08/16/dying-people-pay-5-000-crash-funerals-reveal-secrets-23847334/

 

An open letter to friends and family who are/were shocked to discover I'm a liberal...

https://www.tumblr.com/gallagherwitt/169422719191/an-open-letter-to-friends-and-family-who-arewere

The Great Gun Fraud - by Dan Gardner

https://dgardner.substack.com/p/the-great-gun-fraud?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=765612&post_id=170706822&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3ikjv&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

 

The new roadside tech busting drivers of roaring cars and serving them $250 noise violations

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14986905/Roadside-tech-drivers-roaring-cars-noise-violations-fines.html

The surprising health benefits of wearing earplugs everywhere.

https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/ear-protection-noise-pollution-mental-health.html

Japanese 'Rental Grandmother' Service Gives Much-Needed and Much-Loved Work to Older Women

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/japanese-rental-grandmother-service-gives-much-needed-and-much-loved-work-to-older-women/

How a public library's summer game took over Ann Arbor, Mich

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/04/nx-s1-5477533/public-library-summer-game-ann-arbor-michigan

Project 2025 Tracker

https://www.project2025.observer 

Customer service is getting worse, and it may be by design

https://www.techspot.com/news/108513-customer-service-getting-worse-may-design.html

Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crime

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-atrocities-1-1-056

New study backs 'sleeping on it' to boost 'aha moments'

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/sleep-on-it-problem-solving-study

So THAT'S Why You Get Mad When You're Overstimulated

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/are-you-mean-when-youre-overstimulated-theres-actually-a-reason-for-that-goog_l_6852f8f5e4b0672778c492b5

How much should I tip? I'll tell you | Opinion

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/06/14/restaurant-tipping-culture-food-service-gratuity-guide/84134397007/

Did “Big Oil” Sell Us on a Recycling Scam?

https://daily.jstor.org/did-big-oil-sell-us-on-a-recycling-scam

Why Vinyl Doesn't Actually Sound Better

https://www.howtogeek.com/why-vinyl-doesnt-actually-sound-better/

You can make white rice and pasta more nutritious. Here's how.

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/nx-s1-5392004/rice-nutrition-pasta-digest-super-food

Farmers can make 25 times more just by making this simple switch

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/farming-hack-sustainability-solar-panels

Students live rent-free in this Dutch nursing home, with one caveat

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/dutch-nursing-home-free-housing-college-students

Not debate, 'Ethics Bowl' helps show students a new world of discourse

https://apnews.com/article/ethics-bowl-students-american-divisiveness-2d8297d1596646090af9994ac3d00770  

Why Hong Kong uses bamboo scaffolding, and meet the spider-men who climb it: a visual explainer

https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/culture/article/3183200/bamboo-scaffolding/index.html

Cooling Some Foods After Cooking Increases Their Resistant Starch

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/cooling-resistant-starch#TOC_TITLE_HDR_5

25 European Newsworthy Events That Americans May Not Be Aware Of

https://www.demilked.com/european-news-stories/

Iceland Embraced a 4-Day Workweek in 2019 – Now, Nearly Six Years On, All Gen Z Forecasts Have Materialized

https://www.wecb.fm/iceland-embraced-a-4-day-workweek-in-2019-now-nearly-six-years-on-all-gen-z-forecasts-have-materialized

Free eBooks Galore! - EveryLibrary Action

https://action.everylibrary.org/free_ebooks_galore

I’m over my divorce. Can I stay mad about it?

https://slate.com/life/2025/02/divorce-rage-ex-husband-anger.html?via=rss

Crime in Camden is down. This creative program is a big reason why.

https://www.nj.com/camden/2025/01/crime-is-camden-is-down-this-creative-program-is-a-big-reason-why-cops-say.html

NATO Phonetic Alphabet Converter

https://coconutlampshade.github.io/phonetic-alpha/index.html

Portland cops arrest and “torture” victim of roadside assault

https://bollardhead.substack.com/p/portland-cops-arrest-and-torture

7 small things you can do to improve your to-do list

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/22/1145019667/how-to-make-a-better-to-do-list

Parenting advice: Stop asking your teen how their day was.

https://slate.com/life/2025/01/parenting-advice-teen-daughter-school-family.html?via=rss

“Just being quiet in the car ride home has made all the difference in my relationship with my daughter.“

2025: Keep democracy alive

https://www.theframelab.org/how-to-thrive-in-2025-framelabs-new-years-resolutions-2/

Pooping Before You Exercise Has an Incredible Effect on Performance

https://www.sciencealert.com/pooping-before-you-exercise-has-an-incredible-effect-on-performancek

5 Outdated Grammar Rules To Break

https://wordsmarts.com/grammar-rules-forget/