California Governor Gavin Newsom says "there's no fire season—it's fire year." / The Los Angeles Times A climate reporter in Pacific Palisades relates what it was like to lose her home. Similar: watching your home burn on a Ring camera. / New York Magazine, Curbed
Migrants who successfully reach the United States use TikTok to document their new lives. / The New Yorker New documents reveal how the CIA monitored Latino civil rights pioneers. / axios The Heritage Foundation wants to "identify and target" editors at Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position.
An Italian village forbids its residents from becoming ill—to highlight the country's decimated healthcare system. / BBC News Unhoused people explain what it's like when city workers trash their belongings. / ProPublica New and ongoing programs may be solving Los Angeles's biggest problems: traffic and
Tis the season... for a list of causes favored by TMN and friends. We'll see you again on January 3, 2025. Peace. The Freedom to Read Foundation protects the public's right to access information and materials in libraries without limitations. / Freedom to Read Foundation Survival International
Negotiators at COP29 are stalled on how much money to raise for climate action in developing countries, "and how to raise it." / Semafor A new generation of cheaper batteries is becoming increasingly popular with EV automakers. / Canary Media The TSA expects to screen 18.3 million travelers next
A great quick video by Vanessa Hill and BrainCraft about the psychology of me vs. you, us vs. them, “ingroups, outgroups, and social identity theory.” Get ready to remember, in a nice way, that doing nice things for other people is good for you. As to social identity theory, aka
In case you’re like us and you stayed up late only to fall asleep somewhere in the third set (d’oh), but now you’re too impatient to re-stream the whole thing, here’s a great round-up of highlight clips that tell the story of a remarkable
New Yorkers who want more marble in their workouts can now exercise at the Met, not with trainers but “athletic docents.” Make no mistake: this is a workout. Your body will perspire, your heart rate will rise and you’ll shed any light layers. (That said, my one request would
Mind-hacking is happening, misunderstood, in some cases pretty serious, and it leads to levitating chairs Mind-hacking: everyone’s doing it. Of course, being Americans, it’s not enough for us to just do drugs for pleasure or escape—we want to be more productive, more efficient, better workers.
I don’t know where the reindeer end and he begins. Fascinating look into culture of Finland’s reindeer farmers. Reindeer meat is becoming chic, but production is falling due to climate change, predators, and logging. ↩︎ Economist, posted Dec. 24, 2016 A short article by Mayukh Sen on how and
