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As bar soap gives way to body wash, an enthusiast for the former takes an unexpectedly deep dive into soap history and makes a quasi-scientific and fully nostalgic case for the humble bar.
Slate | Dan Kois
Memoir from a former chef for the rich and entitled on luxury yachts in the Mediterranean.
The Sun | Mishele Maron
And a memoir from another type of worker as a New York writer takes on a second life in a fully legal Nevada brothel.
Esquire | Paloma Karr
Facing a new exploitative contract claiming rights to their likenesses intellectual property, sex workers at that same brothel form a groundbreaking union.
The Nation | Kim Kelly
As young people in other countries enter a sex recession, Danes are bucking the trend.
The Guardian | Zoe Williams
A clever test of your English reading abilities: a blog post slips further back into English prose style one century at a time, becoming mostly unintelligible to modern readers by the end.
Dead Language Society | Colin Gorrie
In Afghanistan, the Taliban is once again enforcing extreme restrictions on women's dress, including denying them entrance to hospitals.
NPR | Fariba Akbari and Diaa Hadid
There's a great deal of scholarship about how democracies backslide, less on how democracies save themselves. A journalist looks to Brazil, South Korea, and Poland for lessons on how Americans can oppose their own authoritarian leader.
Vox | Zack Beauchamp
Harrowing account from a UK tourist visiting the US with a valid visa, a dream vacation that turned into a nightmare ordeal: shackled, separated from her husband, sleeping on floors, and locked away in detainment cells for six weeks.
The Guardian | Jenny Kleeman
If there must be misbehavior in the White House, let it be the pups, not the president: a look back at presidents' troublesome dogs.
The Atlantic | Nicholas Florko
New research finds durable effects from viewing algorithmic content on X (formerly Twitter), shifting user perspectives to the right on salient issues. (A case for Seabird: our only algorithm is showing you content from people you choose to follow, and all posts include outbound links!)
Nature | Germain Gauthier, Roland Hodler, Philine Widmer and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
On the negative externalities of megaconstellations of satellites streaking visibly across the sky: "for the first time in human history, this shifting baseline means kids today won’t grow up with the same night sky every previous generation of humanity had access to."
The Conversation | Gregory Radisic and Samantha Lawler
A start-up is working to scale a new leather-like material made from the spent grains of beer and whiskey production, no animal or plastic inputs needed.
Dezeen | Rima Sabina Aouf
An engineering approach to appreciating the genius of Jimi Hendrix, whose use of the electric guitar went far beyond mere amplification to new, groundbreaking means of musical expression.
Spectrum | Rohan S. Puranik
The history of social media through the online experience of one star athlete.
Moll Don't Lie | Molly Morrison
And in Portland news, would losing the Trailblazers "set Portland’s economy back by a generation"? Economic studies suggest reasons to be skeptical.
City Commentary | Joe Cortright
In photography: striking category winners from the Sony World Photography Awards.
Colossal | Kate Mothes
And in book and bird news: Bird City explores the avian side of the Big Apple.
American Scientist | Mya Thompson
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