TMN is mainly a newsletter these days!

TMN is mainly a newsletter these days. Sign up for morning bulletins, Monday through Saturday.

The Morning News

Chalk this up to things not widely known: America's first female mortician, Henrietta Duterte, turned her house into a stop on the Underground Railroad and used coffins to smuggle fugitives across Pennsylvania.

From an essay about Duterte by novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge: 

At 14, my deepest desire was to become an undertaker. This career choice was met with puzzled looks from my mother and exasperated sighs from my guidance counselor, but during a school-sponsored internship week, they agreed to let me try.

Nov 13, 2017
More Headlines

We can conclusively prove that the conflict between tennis and pickleball is capable of shaping the evolution of mankind, and certainly influence the results of sports.

A theory finds athletes who’ve associated themselves with pickleball are not doing very well. Is it ”the dinker’s curse?”
↩︎ Club Leftist Tennis
4d
Lan Samantha Chang: Celebrating Lunar New Year has meant learning to share my rituals with people for whom the traditions are new.
↩︎ Vogue 4d

“It is no use trying to explain why we say, on the one hand, that pair of shoes is getting old, but on the other hand, the pair were perfectly happy after their honeymoon.”

Praise for an update to perhaps the best book on modern English usage. “For anyone interested in language, it’s catnip.”
↩︎ The Millions
5d
A website designer creates a website to showcase all of the people who’ve copied his website designs.
↩︎ Copy Dennis 5d
To the extent that there’s been a national spike in shoplifting, it correlates to the growth of online retail.
↩︎ Curbed 5d
The Orient Express claims to be building the world's largest sailing ship, intending to launch it in 2026.
↩︎ Orient Express 1w

“I have a suggestion for you that comes from your own world. It is that I am only a symptom. I am not the disease. By treating me as you would like to, you will not remove the root causes of your anger, which I suspect are insecurity and borrowed shame.”

A reading of John Le Carré’s (mostly business) correspondence finds him struggling against deceit.
↩︎ The New Yorker
1w
The remains of more than 110,000 Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Alaska Natives are held by museums and universities.
↩︎ Pro Publica 1w

Talking to my two better-paid colleagues through my experiment gave me valuable context. Before, the numbers were just numbers; now, they tell entire stories.

A millennial decides to tell everyone how much money she makes.
↩︎ Business Insider
1w
Texas has three times more wind, solar and battery storage under construction than California—just don’t call it green.
↩︎ The Economist 1w
Restaurant workers in the US unwittingly pay—via mandatory safety classes—for lobbying to keep their pay and benefits low.
↩︎ The New York Times 1w

I should have known, therefore, that it was a Wednesday unlike any other—that the world was about to change—when, at the end of the day, I poked into the studio to turn off the lights, and found the synthesizer still wired up.

A new short story from Robin Sloan, complete with music.
↩︎ Brand New Box
2w

If you can write beginnings and ends, you can make a nice living as a writer. If you write middles, you win Pulitzers and Nobel Prizes and stuff. But with beginnings and ends, you're going to do okay.

Author James Patterson, who has no interest in retiring, has 30 books going at any given time.
↩︎ GQ
3w
From October, are we in the midst of a "social recession?" Fewer friendships, less sex, delayed adulthood, etc.
↩︎ Novum 3w

Now you might say: but we had real truffles on the plate! Or, we had real pieces of truffles in the cheese. Yes, that is the worst part of the scam. Decorative truffles are here to make a fool of you.

Almost everything with a “truffle” label available in stores or served in restaurants is said to be a fraud.
↩︎ Taste Atlas
3w
See More From TMN