Camp! Notes.

A massive new UN report finds that nature is collapsing around us, "with devastating implications for human survival." 1/22

A 25-foot fiberglass shark crashing through a roof in Oxford, England, has oddly become a source of civic pride. 2/22

Queen Elizabeth I of England drank from "a unicorn horn cup," believing that if poison touched it, it would explode. 3/22

Atlantic Leather, the only fish tannery in Europe, turns the skins of salmon, perch, cod, and wolffish into leather. 4/22

The synthetic fabrics in your clothing shed “microfibers” in the wash, which are ingested by the fish and other seafood that you eat. 5/22

In other pollution news: A Starbucks cup accidentally wound up in Game of Thrones. 6/22

This summer, researchers will conduct the first field test of geoengineering the climate. 7/22

More American ranches are being led by women. For some Native Americans, it's "a return to the natural order." 8/22

Related: By 2030, women over the age of 60 will own 75% of the transferred land in the United States. 9/22

Women in cities are increasingly ditching handbags for backpacks despite Dora the Explorer jokes. 10/22

An economist argues that the influence of big business on US politics is overstated, even in Trump’s 2019. 11/22

The House Judiciary Committee will proceed on a vote to hold Attorney General Barr in contempt for defying a subpoena. 12/22

More than 400 former federal prosecutors say Robert Mueller’s report should have led to “multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice.” 13/22

“Peace privilege” makes it difficult for you to understand people in Venezuela when they try to explain what’s really happening. 14/22

Presidential candidate Booker says if you need a license to drive a car, you should need a license to carry a gun. 15/22

The average US family spends more than two hours a week at a laundromat. That's why they're the focus of a literacy project. 16/22

Woody Allen wrote a memoir and spent a year pitching it to publishers. Publishers weren't interested. 17/22

Watch: How to conserve a painting, as performed by a second-generation conservation studio in Chicago. 18/22

Tessa Dóniga Johnson's "Break/fast" takes the morning meal to absurd levels. 19/22

From 2015, but still fun if you didn’t see it: Mathematicians prize Japanese “dream chalk.” 20/22

Coming this summer: Camp ToB! Where we read new books together at a summer-y pace. Vote for your favorites before next Monday. 21/22

And you thought today’s “camp” subject line was just a Gaga/Sontag reference... 22/22


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