The winners of the 2023 Ig Nobel Prize (for unusual and often goofy scientific achievements) include an explanation of why scientists like to lick rocks and "re-animating dead spiders to use as mechanical gripping tools".
The second official trailer for Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon.
A lovely story about an NYC woman reading a now-deleted YouTube comment for the first time. "It was so, so emotional. I couldn't believe anyone ever felt that way about me. I never knew I inspired anything like that."
A bathtub in the kitchen? The NY Times takes a peek into the tiny, weird kitchens of NYC apartments and the people who love them (or have at least learned to live with them).
An excellent, thought-provoking, sobering read from Ana Marie Cox: What if our entire national character is a trauma response? "Privilege may keep you from certain kinds of risks, but it won’t make you resilient. Only community can."
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