Editor’s note
2 Articles was a project that spanned four months, January 2022 through April 2022. Two interesting articles were posted every morning. They weren’t necessarily related, and came from a variety of websites: news outlets, personal blogs, magazines. Preserved in posterity here (because most are fairly evergreen, and definitely interesting).
01-038
Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age (The New Yorker)
Documenting Los Angeles’s Unlikely Urban Fishermen (New York Times)
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01-037
Hypersonic Missiles Are Unstoppable. And They’re Starting a New Global Arms Race. (New York Times Magazine)
The Five-Day Workweek Is Dying (The Atlantic)
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01-036
The January 8 Eight (Joe Posnanski)
Inside the self-inflicted crisis boiling over as MLB's lockout deadline arrives (ESPN)
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01-035
The Ebony Test Kitchen, Where Black Cuisine Was Celebrated, Is Reborn (New York Times)
The Underground Story of Slow Cooking (Taste Cooking)
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01-033 | WAR IN UKRAINE
This is a special Sunday edition of 2 Articles, focused on Ukraine and the Russian invasion.
A Prayer for Volodymyr Zelensky (The Atlantic)
Ukrainians under fire (BBC World News)
Fact check: False claim of US biolabs in Ukraine tied to Russian disinformation campaign (USA Today)
The Great Russian Disinformation Campaign (The Atlantic, 2018)
2 Articles are always news analyses or profiles, and we endeavor to share stories that will be relevant whenever they’re read. For updated news on the war in Ukraine, follow reputable sources. Be careful what you share online. An excellent source of news from Ukraine has been The Kyiv Independent.
Godspeed to the people of Ukraine.
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01-032
Who’s really behind the Bible app going viral around the world? (Rest of World)
At the Sierra Club, a Focus on Race, Gender and the Environment, Too (New York Times)
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01-030
Call of Duty: Free (99% Invisible)
Douglas Trumbull, Visual Effects Maestro on ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ Dies at 79 (Hollywood Reporter)
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01-029
Thanks to a glitch, some Seattle Mazda drivers can’t tune their radios away from KUOW (Seattle Times)
Beware, Mosquitoes Are Most Attracted to These 4 Colors (Hyperallergic)
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01-028
The Story of Huey Lewis Is Not a Tragedy (Esquire)
The Strange, Soggy Saga of Glurpo, San Marcos’s Underwater Clown (Texas Monthly)
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01-027
3.7 million more children in poverty in Jan 2022 without monthly Child Tax Credit (Center on Poverty & Social Policy at Columbia University)
How Antarctic Explorers Kept Themselves Sane on the Voyage (Lit Hub)
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01-026
The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s ‘high five’ photos* (Input Mag)
How to Visit Refuge Charpoua, the Century-old Mountain Hut of Chamonix (Field Mag)
* A few days late for Valentine’s Day, but here is a love story for you.
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01-025
Woman Apparently Cured Of HIV Using Umbilical Cord Blood, Scientists Say (Forbes)
The Radical Woman Behind “Goodnight Moon” (The New Yorker)
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01-024
Here’s what actually happens to all your online shopping returns (Rest of World)
How a Motorcycle Trip Through the Americas Turned Into a Lesson on Humility (Condé Nast Traveler)
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01-023
The Kept and the Killed (Public Domain Review)
A Search Begins for the Wreck Behind an Epic Tale of Survival (New York Times)
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01-022
Walking America: Washington, DC (Anacostia and Alexandria) (Intellectual Int-ing)
What you need to know before going to Yosemite and other national parks in 2022 (Los Angeles Times)
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01-021
The Texanist: What’s the Difference Between Tex-Mex and Mexican Food? (Texas Monthly)
IRS plan to scan your face prompts anger in Congress, confusion among taxpayers (Washington Post)
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01-020
Why Can’t We Make Women’s Equality the Law of the Land? (New York Times Opinion)
The vaguely dystopian technology fueling China’s Olympic Games (Rest of World)
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01-019
Online harassment, misogyny and why none of us can ignore it (Ride Write Repeat)
The Betrayal (The Atlantic)
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