These 10 Books Changed the Way Americans Thought About Work I picked Ehrenreich’s Nickled and Dimed for my book club and the discussion was, shall we say, lively, but I had no idea of the massive effect it had on American labor as a whole. (WSJ gift link)
Architectural Digest gives a two-hour tour of New York. Dana sez, good way to avoid the traffic. (Architectural Digest on YouTube)
For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.3%. It’s 0.3% in countries like Japan & Norway.
This dramatic decline has resulted from better nutrition, clean water, sanitation, neonatal healthcare, vaccinations, medicines, and reductions in poverty, conflicts, and famine.
Before ~1800, almost every parent lost a child; now it’s such an uncommon experience that people have forgotten and want to ban vaccines. (h/t Kottke)
A caribou in the Teshekpuk herd is seen on June 27, 2014, in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. A lawsuit filed Thursday claims the U.S. Bureau of Land Management approved ConocoPhillips’ winter oil exploration plan without adequately considering damages to habitat used by caribou and other wildlife. (Photo by Bob Wick/U.S. Bureau of Land Management) Dana sez, “See article below.” (Alaska Beacon)
Quote for the day
You think Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence in Verdana? You think Hamilton wrote The Federalist Papers in Trebuchet MS? You think Lincoln cracked open the Notes app and tapped his way through The Gettysburg Address in effeminate little SF Pro? This country was built by serifs, and it will be built back by serifs. Only fonts like me can encapsulate the subtle, powerful, elegant words of our nation’s brightest minds, be those words in a political address, an ad for supplements in a podcast, or some musings for an open mic about why it’s so hard to get dates with women these days. —McSweeny’s
(Dana is compelled to ask, “Say wha? Fonts? The Secretary of State of the United States of America is fighting over fonts now? There’s wars in the Ukraine and the Middle East and one his boss is starting in Venezuela but…fonts?”)
Outro…
Chatter Lagniappe Sunday architectural digest barbara ehrenreich calibri vs times new roman child mortality fossil fuels wind and solar
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Sadly, the WSJ gift link for the first article leads to a paywall.