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Today’s Selections
Lofty Ambitions (link)
Too Wild to Love (link) –– “A multigenerational Texas family leaves the state for a new life on the East Coast.”
Detransitioners Are Crucial to the Science of Gender Care (link)
Actually, Color Blindness Isn’t Racist (link)
Reckoning with the Lyft Business Model (link)
Profile of a Cowboy (link)
FLASHBACK:
Playing God (link)
Other Items of Note
On Hank Williams (link)
Tim Carmody about decline in tech (link)
Dispatch from El Paso as migrants arrive (link)
Los Angeles’ state of emergency (link)
The world’s oldest soups (link)
The FBI and Twitter (link)
No other options (link)
For Christmas hot butter your cocktails (link)
How sesame was added to more foods (link)
Ken White explains the narrow limits on the First Amendment (link)
Jim Fallows analyzes Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to Congress (link)
Anne Applebaum makes the case for the course we took in Ukraine (link)
The crime politics of New York City (link)
Good news on clean water (link)
Phoebe Maltz Bovy on sex positivity (link)
Artificial intelligence cannot be an inventor in patent law (link)
RIP inventor of chicken tikka masala (link)
Megan McArdle on home ownership (link)
When in doubt plant a nut tree (link)
How would you prove that God performed a miracle? (link)
Comedy wildlife photography awards (link)
Japan to stay nuclear after all (link)
How a preschool envisions a parent’s day (link)
12 year olds left alone for 5 days (link)
1927 works enter the public domain (link)
The FDA’s lab test power grab (link)
Less talk context (link)
She bought the house her mother cleaned for 43 years (link)
A spectacular World Cup final (link)
Doctors and their families are less likely to follow guidelines about medicine (link)
Stuff I’ve Been Writing
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Christmas tree art by DALL-E