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Thanks to a long-running research project, data from Oregon's visually stunning Crater Lake is providing insight into how climate change is affecting lakes all over the world, shutting down cycles of water mixing that make them hospitable to fish.
Quanta | Rachel Nuwer
A former VP of Dictionary.com makes the case for "fascism" as word of the year with a dive into its etymology tracing back to Ancient Rome and the adoption of fasces in patriotic American imagery.
Mashed Radish | John Kelly
What makes a word of the year? Different groups have different standards, all competing for media attention.
LitHub | Stefan Fatsis
Bird flu, public health, and conspiracist thinking come to a head in West Kootenay, Canada, where even at a remote ostrich farm everyone is extremely online.
The Atlantic | Daniel Engber
"In its heyday, the penny had immense cultural impact. It was the going rate for thoughts. It was a symbol of frugality, saved and/or earned. It could sometimes be pretty and other times arrive from heaven. And how many ideas would never have come to light without a penny dropping?" An obituary for the American penny.
The New York Times | Victor Mather
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Talking Points Memo | David Weigel
An analysis of Fox News coverage of this year's anti-ICE protests finds the network misleadingly presenting footage from five years earlier and from an entirely different state.
ProPublica | Rob Davis
On gambling and gooning: "While I know that some men are lonely, I do not think that what afflicts America’s young today can be properly called a loneliness crisis. It seems more to me like an absence-of-loneliness crisis. It is a being-constantly-alone-and-not-even-thinking-that’s-a-problem crisis."
Derek Thompson
On the origins of the 40-hour workweek and the prospects for making it shorter.
The Wall Street Journal | Andrew Blackman
A researcher informally investigates the reasons shoppers don't return their carts, via data from the YouTube channel "Cart Narcs."
Behavioral Scientist | Hannah B. Waldfogel
New research suggests a link between common Epstein-Barr virus and lupus, potentially pointing the way toward a vaccine for the latter.
The Guardian | Hannah Devlin
Linklater discusses his new movies Blue Moon and Nouvelle Vague, filming in French, and recreating the style of the New Wave.
The Austin Chronicle | Richard Whittaker
With pragmatic beginnings intended to stretch the most life out of garments, patchwork is now a hallmark of Japanese textiles.
Carryology | Mike Knispel
You've seen variations of the image everywhere: a landscape with two mountains and a sun or moon in the sky. Somehow it became the universal symbol indicating a placeholder for a missing image.
The Conversation | Christopher Schaberg
When AI meets centralized restaurant reservation services, restaurants can increasingly profile you before you even step through the door.
Food & Wine | Darron Cardosa
In Portland news: A comprehensive look back on the twenty-first century restaurants and chefs that elevated Portland to one of America's best cities for dining out.
Portland Monthly | Staff
Please don't yell at the seabirds. An amusing science story, but also a pretty neat experimental design suggesting that seagulls respond to tone in human voices, differentiating between speaking and shouting at the same volume.
Associated Press | Brian Melley
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