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↩︎ This Isn't Happiness 2d

Despite all my years of studying brain disorders, for the first time in my life I realize how profoundly unsettling it is to have a brain that does not function.

After brain cancer affected her behavior, a neuroscientist comprehends mental illness in new ways.

↩︎ Quartz

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A drug ring tried to transport meth disguised as Aztec calendars and statues.

↩︎ LA Taco 2d

The soothing geometry of farmland, captured in aerial photos.

↩︎ Quartz 2d

Internists are to Hercule Poirot as surgeons are to Sherlock Holmes.

↩︎ Literary Hub 2d

A sortable database of paper airplane designs, with folding instructions.

↩︎ Fold N Fly 2d

Tom Scocca: We plan our families without regard to the one fact we refuse to discuss: We're gong to die, sooner rather than later.

↩︎ Hmm Daily 2d

The Houston Chronicle, which recommended Ted Cruz in 2012, endorses Beto O'Rourke for US Senate.

↩︎ The Houston Chronicle 2d

I waded into the water and it was very soft on my skin and refreshing, a little bit cool but not too cold... Daddy was begging me to rush so he could watch the World Cup final, but I like to take my time about things so I ignored him.

The eight-year-old Swedish girl who pulled an ancient sword from a lake writes about the experience, and she is amazing.

↩︎ The Guardian

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The 19th-century maps of Emma Willard—possibly the first American female cartographer—charted Native Americans' dispossession.

↩︎ Atlas Obscura 2d

The founder of a company that ships abortion-inducement medication to your home launches a new service that delivers to the US.

↩︎ The Atlantic 2d

US Fish and Wildlife tells staff to be less transparent in FOIA responses, in order to avoid fueling endangered species lawsuits.

↩︎ The Guardian 2d

It’s coming from the same place. Some kind of dog-whistle or some shit. Like, “Can we make it more authentic?” I’m often accused of not being “authentic” enough, and people don’t even realize how vile of a thing that is to say.

Open Mike Eagle on the enduring realities of Robert Townsend’s Hollywood Shuffle and the marginalization of black actors.

↩︎ Vulture

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The Guardian's experiment in memberships is working: It now gets more revenue from readers than from advertisers.

↩︎ Digiday 2d

↩︎ @Jbfletch_ebooks 2d

Twenty percent of DC-area construction workers are in an immigration program Trump wants to end.

↩︎ Washingtonian 2d

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↩︎ TMN Membership 3d

For example, if it is desired to make a record to guide the driver from Chevy Chase to the Treasury Department, the record among other things would contain the directions ‘U street turn to the left.’

From a 1916 patent for a phonograph in your car to play audio recordings to help you navigate.

↩︎ Futility Closet

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The south-western Chinese city of Chengdu plans to launch an illumination satellite, or fake moon, in 2020.

↩︎ The Guardian 3d

A set of revolving bookcases turn a Paris office into an art gallery.

↩︎ Studio Florian Brillet 3d