01-058

1. You should not open a door and see someone pooping (Experimental History)

2. An Argument for Requiring Americans to Vote (Lit Hub)

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01-057

1. A Botanical Mystery Solved, After 146 Years (Atlas Obscura)

2. Microplastics found in human blood for first time* (Guardian)

* We are become death, the destroyer of worlds.

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01-056

1. Afghanistan’s last finance minister, now a D.C. Uber driver, ponders what went wrong (Washington Post)

2. In Wisconsin: Stowing Mowers, Pleasing Bees (New York Times)

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01-055

1. USC Project Tracks Police Killings Across The US (LAist)

2. The Overlooked Stone Carvers of Escolásticas (New York Times)

01-054

1. The Impatience of Job* (Slate)

* I’m posting only one article today because it’s that good. Savor it. Brew some coffee or tea or crack open a fizzy drink and sit down and read this. It is powerful and fascinating and necessary in this, the year 2022. This quote I’ve pulled comes from near then end, and it’s something by which I’ve tried to live my life.

Maybe the moral of Job is this: If God won’t create just circumstances, then we have to. As we do, Job’s honesty—in the face of both a harsh, collapsing world and the kinds of ignorant devotion that worsen it—must be our guiding force.

01-053

1. Schools nationwide are quietly removing books from their libraries* (Washington Post)

2. Maine island library wants your banned books (NBC News)

* Lancaster, Pennsylvania, shame on you.

01-052

1. When Life Gave Pennsylvania Spotted Lanternflies, Its Bees Made Spotted Lanternfly Honey* (Atlas Obscura)

2. A Brief History of the Calorie (JSTOR Daily)

* I don’t want to spoil what honeydew is, but…it’s kind of gross.

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01-051

1. Writing novels (Meditations in an Emergency)

2. Mountain Lion Charges Hiker, Hiker Charges Lion, Hiker Wins (Adventure Journal)

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01-050

1. Tugende: Race Around Rwanda (Bikepacking, 2020*)

2. State officials ask residents of a small, predominantly Black town near the site of new Ford investment to forfeit their city charter or face takeover (Tennessee Lookout)

* This is two years ago, but the 2022 Race Around Rwanda is going on right now, or was, and you can watch Albion’s four-person cycling team, at least, here.

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01-049

1. Remembering the First Three Women to Climb Mount Everest: One inspired the world, one is in danger of being forgotten, and one disappeared (Outside)

2. Mariupol descends into despair (Associated Press)

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01-048

1. A Two-Year, 50-Million-Person Experiment in Changing How We Work (New York Times)

2. What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane (The Atlantic)

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01-047

1. The Great American Antler Boom (New Yorker)

2. An Ode to the Astral Toyota Space Van (Adventure Journal)

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01-046

1. What It Was Like to Work for Russian State Television (New York Times)

2. Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall (Nautilus)

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01-045

1. When the Midwest Was Once a Tech Hub (Men Yell at Me)

2. Vinegar eels can synchronize swim (Science News)

01-044

1. Wendell Berry’s Advice for a Cataclysmic Age (New Yorker)

2. How We Broke the Supply Chain (American Prospect)

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01-043

1. Stone Cold Campers (Backpacker, 2003)

2. How Tumblr Became Popular for Being Obsolete (New Yorker)

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01-042

1. Absolute Power (The Atlantic)

2. How a YouTube channel is transforming a remote village in Bangladesh (Rest of World)

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01-041

1. Singing to the Sake (Patagonia)

2. The World Is Awash in Plastic. Nations Plan a Treaty to Fix That. (New York Times)

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01-040

1. The Supreme Court’s newest attack on voting rights, explained (Vox)

2. How a rainy day and finicky fish launched a Pennsylvania program dedicated to unpaved roads (Philadelphia Inquirer)

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01-039 | War Edition

1. ‘Yes, He Would’: Fiona Hill on Putin and Nukes* (Politico)

   • Putin Says U.S. Is Undermining Global Stability (New York Times, 2009)

   • The Russian Orthodox Church and Ukraine (Wall Street Journal)

   • Contextualizing Putin's "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians" (Harvard University)

   • Why the Kremlin Is Shutting Down the Novorossiya Project (Carnegie Moscow Center, 2015)

   • Two Decades On, Smoldering Questions About The Russian President's Vault To Power (Radio Free Europe, 2019)

   • Russia's Military Nadir: The Meaning of the Chechen Debacle (The National Interest, 1996)

   • Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny dupes spy into revealing how he was poisoned (CNN, 2020)

   • CNN-Bellingcat investigation identifies Russian specialists who trailed Putin's nemesis Alexey Navalny before he was poisoned (CNN, 2020)

2. Why did so many observers misjudge Putin and Zelensky? (The Atlantic)

3. 11 reasons we haven’t seen big Russian cyberattacks yet (Washington Post)

4. What more could the west do about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? (The Guardian)

5. War brought Vladimir Putin to power in 1999. Now, it must bring him down (The Guardian)

* I hate Politico! I hate Q&As! (This is a Q&A, by the way!) 2 Articles is supposed to be a weekday thing! There shouldn’t be sub-links! Everything about this shouldn’t exist, and yet, it does, and it’s No. 1, which should tell you just how insightful and important it is. If you read nothing else this week or next week, read this and the articles to which it links, some of which I’ve included here as a sub-list, which, again, shouldn’t exist! This is important!

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