1. “There’s this false image that I’m an angry, depressed teenager. But why would I be depressed when I’m trying to do my best to change things?” Greta Thunberg Hears Your Excuses. She Is Not Impressed.
More climate change articles
- The Arctic hasn’t been this warm for 3 million years – and that foreshadows big changes for the rest of the planet
- Three Scenarios for the Future of Climate Change
- The Big Thaw: How Russia Could Dominate a Warming World
- The Pandemic Year Marked a Turning Point in Climate Change by David Wallace-Wells
2. We want sexuality to be biological because we want sexuality to be instinctual and natural and out of our control, because choice isn’t nearly as romantic as surrender. Love is about the absence of choice — the irresistible pull of another body. We don’t have faith in the rest of it because we doubt the permanence of anything we are capable of changing with our minds. I was scared, like maybe many of you are now, that in some unpredictable future I’d pick the wrong gender and then flee my husband/wife for another man/woman, leaving everybody’s soul shattered. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About My Sexual Orientation And Were(n’t) Afraid To Ask
And: Daring to step into oneself is the bravest, most terrifying thing a person can do, because when you cease to wrap yourself in artifice you are naked, and when you are naked you are vulnerable. And while the word “bisexual” was technically correct, it would take many years before the word “bisexual” would roll off my tongue and not get stuck in my throat. Few people would be open to the idea of men like me even existing. Many could conceive of bisexuality only in the way it existed for most people willing to admit to it: as a transitory identity — a pit stop or a hiding place — and not a permanent one. I wouldn’t always find the courage to tell people the whole truth about myself, or do so before their love had already reached through my secret and touched my shame, but at least I learned to move in the right direction. Up From Pain by Charles M. Blow.
More LGBTQ+ articles
- At this point I feel like I am describing the life of a completely separate person; albeit someone that shaped who I am today, for better or worse. I don’t think describing my experiences in this way is something I am obliged to do, but rather, I feel like it is something I should do, on the off chance it will help someone who finds themselves in a similar position. 'My own death felt preferable to anyone discovering I was gay'
- Passion Pit's Michael Angelakos on Being Bisexual
- Attention without feeling, I began to learn, is only a report. An openness — an empathy — was necessary if the attention was to matter. Such openness and empathy M. had in abundance, and gave away freely.
- How Schitt's Creek Built TV's Most Relatable Romance
- The opposite of rape culture is nurturance culture
- Asexuality history goes back way further than an "internet identity"
- What It’s Like to Grow Up LGBTQ+ in Rural Britain
- What I've Learned From Having A Trans Partner
- What “Happiest Season” Is, What It Isn’t, and What It Could Be
- “[If You’re Bisexual] Why Don’t You Choose To Be With A Woman And Be Like You’re Normal?”
- One Day Out
- That’s not what sodomy is, but OK
- Your genitals deserve better: the case against toxic sex toys
3. microCOVID project: a calculator that lets you estimate the risk of getting COVID from an activity or relationship in your daily life, using the best research available.
More on the pandemic
- Do You Have ‘Zoom Fatigue’ or Is It Existentially Crushing to Pretend Life Is Normal as the World Burns?
- It's Not Just You. A Lot Of Us Are Hitting A Pandemic Wall Right Now.
- The Pandemic Safety Rule That Really Matters: Don’t spend time indoors with people outside your household.
- The story of mRNA: How a once-dismissed idea became a leading technology in the Covid vaccine race
- What Happened in Room 10 of The Life Care Center of Kirkland, Washington--The first COVID hot spot in the U.S.
- Coronavirus Is an Occupational Disease That Spreads at Work
- The Students Left Behind by Remote Learning
- Tjipto Mangoenkoesoemo marah karena permohonannya tidak dikabulkan [pemerintah Hindia Belanda], dia mengembalikan bintang penghargaan Orde van Oranje Nassau [itu]. Namun, “selama jalan kaki menuju di kantor, dia menaruh bintang itu di pantat,” ujarnya. “Jadi siapa pun yang melihat pantatnya, akan menghormat.” Karut-Marut Pagebluk Pes Pertama di Hindia Belanda
4. The ethical is not halfway between white supremacists and human rights activists. Who the hell wants unity with Nazis until and unless they stop being Nazis? by Rebecca Solnit
More on race and US politics
- The Life Breonna Taylor Lived, in the Words of Her Mother by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Kamala versus Daenerys: Names, Mayflower mouth, and the politics of mispronunciation and dispronunciation
- The Store That Called the Cops on George Floyd
- At some point you learn to speak clearly and slowly, to widen your eyes a bit, perhaps to smile, in situations where the underlying danger of everyday existence races to the surface like an air bubble in murky water. You learn that there will be moments, random and unbidden, where to save your life you must convince a stranger that you are in some amorphous way good. It Does Not Matter If You Are Good
- The Black American Amputation Epidemic: Black patients were losing limbs at triple the rate of others.
- The Literature of White Liberalism
- Angela Davis
- Western Beauty Supply sells products like wigs, hair extensions and combs mostly to Black women. Most of the employees, like Ms. Holmes, are also Black, but the owner is a Korean-American man, Yong Sup Na.
- George Floyd & Anti-Racist Street Art
- The Tenants Who Evicted Their Landlord
- AOC’S Next Four Years
- How to Spot a Military Impostor
- Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Don’t Survive to Become Seniors
- The Future of Decent Work Depends on the Failure of Prop 22
5. ‘Please Do Not Touch the Walrus or Sit on the Iceberg’ by Caleb Parkin
More poetry and stories
6. A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid
Articles from Nigeria, Georgia, Hiroshima, Cambodia, and more
- Islam and Europe: A review of Douglas Murray's The Strange Death of Europe
- Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers. It’s a good job. Until it isn’t.
- Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine by Peter Beinart
- Nigeria’s Millennials Are Battling a Gerontocracy
- Why Are the Noses Broken on Egyptian Statues? Harming the inscription and symbols that identified the deity or the individual cut off the source of the image’s power by disassociating it from that specific deity or person.
- The falsehoods of the “tribute system” model infiltrate the maps in Making China Modern, which appallingly label Kazakhstan, Nepal, Bhutan, all of mainland Southeast Asia and Korea as “Chinese vassals”. This is worse than DreamWorks film Abominable that shows the PRC “nine-dash line” claiming most of the South China Sea. We need a new approach to teaching modern Chinese history: we have lazily repeated false narratives for too long.
- Why Sudan's Remarkable Ancient Civilization Has Been Overlooked by History
- The Second Most Famous Thing to Happen to Hiroshima
- Georgian Language and History
- The Chip Wars of the 21st Century
- Raja Jawa Ambil Kuasa: Buang Lawan Politik ke Afrika & Sri Lanka
- How U.S. Policy Turned the Sonoran Desert Into a Graveyard for Migrants
- Why Indonesia’s omnibus bill will not create jobs and only strengthen the oligarchy
- Indonesian protests point to old patterns
- Dan Wang's 2020 letter
- Some undercover officials naively believed that methods like using potato chip bags would mask cellphone signals, and operatives were generally “freewheeling,” according to one former senior intelligence official. Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
- The Forgotten UN Intervention to Build Democracy in Cambodia
7. I should have loved biology By James Somers
More on science
- Project Orion
- How We Discovered Water on the Moon
- Europa Clipper Inches Forward, Shackled to the Earth
- Scientists were convinced that biological clocks are predominantly driven by internal rhythms. There was just one problem—involving some mollusks and the moon.
- Psychological Science: Full of Surprises?
- Where are All the Successful Rationalists? Maybe all the rationalists with PhDs and lucrative tech jobs in 2019 were totally devoid of any hope for the future in 2009, and it is only thanks to these blogs that they’ve achieved the success they have.
- Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses.
- Can you make yourself more independent-minded? I think so. This quality may be largely inborn, but there seem to be ways to magnify it, or at least not to suppress it. How to Think for Yourself by Paul Graham
8. Tips For Robustness Checks And Empirical Analysis In General by Tatyana Deryugina
More on economics and research
- Empirical Techniques in Economics: Much Ado About Nothing
- The database on taxation for African countries that covers the whole 20th century is finally ready.
- “Doubt is Their Product”: The Difference Between Research and Academic Lobbying
- Panel on Non-Academic Development Economics Research Jobs at OSU on Leah Bevis' website
- Multiple hypothesis testing in Stata: -mhtexp-, -rwolf-, -wyoung-, -mhtreg-
- Common statistical tests are linear models (or: how to teach stats)
- With rare exceptions, I don’t admire researchers at top schools. And in all sincerity, I am not jealous.
- "Trickle-down" economics is, indeed, a joke
- An Illustrated Guide to TMLE/Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation
- The Introduction Formula
- Replicating the literature on meritocratic promotion in China
- Despite the abundance of quit-lit out there, the genre is almost universally written by those leaving, not those left behind. Those left behind don’t often write about what it means to lose friends and colleagues. To do so would be to acknowledge not only the magnitude of the loss but also that it was a loss at all. If we don’t see the loss of all of these scholars as an actual loss to the field, let alone as the loss of so many years of people’s lives, is it any wonder I felt I had no right to grieve?
Miscellannea
- Social Media Sites are Status as a Service (StaaS)
- On the bonkers color palette of Garfield comics
- Garbage Language: Why do corporations speak the way they do?
- Bloomberg Businessweek 2020 Jealousy List The task to the magazine’s staff and our many contributors: Swallow your pride and acknowledge a job well done, begrudgingly if need be, by someone else.
- How Neutering Became the Norm
- The Insufferable Hubris of the Well-Credentialed
- Why I’ve tracked every single piece of clothing I’ve worn for three years
- How to be angry
- Grapefruit Is One of the Weirdest Fruits on the Planet
- The systematic scale-up of social entrepreneurs’ solutions by Big International NGOs is simply not a thing. That's alarming.
- Just give poor people money
- The Inner Ring by C. S. Lewis
- On ‘The Mysteries of Pittsburgh’ by Michael Chabon
- Google Fonts
- The Data of Long-lived Institutions
- Shitty first draft
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