Salaries & Wages Low Wages, Sexual Harassment and Unreliable Tips. This Is Life in America’s Booming Service IndustryTIME - Alana SemuelsPublished in partnership with The Fuller Project, a non-profit newsroom that reports on issues impacting women. After an eight-hour shift on her feet, shuffling between a stuffy kitchen and the red vinyl
African-American News The Great Land RobberyThe Atlantic - Vann R. Newkirk IIThe shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms Images above: A sign on a utility pole to deter hunters, near the old Scott-family homestead, Drew, Mississippi; Willena's
Pierre Trudeau Justin Trudeau: the rise and fall of a political brandThe Guardian - Ashifa KassamOn the last night of March 2012, Justin Trudeau climbed into a boxing ring in downtown Ottawa, the Canadian capital, intent on rescuing his public image. He was clad in a lustrous red robe, the colour
Outdoors Welcome to Palmerston Island, Population 35Outside Magazine - Alison Van HoutenWhen our 38-foot sloop approached Palmerston at dawn one September morning, more than 200 miles from the nearest speck of land, we’d been staring down squalls on the South Pacific for five days and nights.
Jesus Can Jesus Close the Wage Gap?Elle - By Hayley PhelanIt’s 7 p.m. on a Friday, and across New York City, happy hours are winding down and group chats are lighting up. Outside the Kings Theatre in Flatbush, Brooklyn, hundreds of young women are standing in
Play buttonSports Inside the Twisted, Worldwide Hunt for a $7 Million Stolen CarEsquire - Stayton BonnerJoe Ford is sitting at the Pelican Landing, an outdoor restaurant in a fancy marina on the Intracoastal Waterway. Across the way is a 180-foot yacht, the name abbracci painted across the stern. The theme
Medicine In Men, It’s Parkinson’s. In Women, It’s Hysteria.propublica.org - ProPublica Neurologist Laura Boylan suffered from tremors and loss of balance that she attributed to a cyst in her brain. Why didn’t her doctors believe …
Science How humans created color for thousands of yearsPopular Science - Eleanor CumminsBack before we could paint our world with pixels, we needed precious commodities to make pigments. Most of the hues we look at these days come courtesy of 16,777,216 alphanumeric keys called Hex codes;
Pop Culture Little House, Big Fans: These People Really, Really Love Laura Ingalls WilderRefinery29 - Elena NicolaouLaura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie series have become a symbol of the American pioneer spirit. More than a century later, the books are a lifestyle for her superfans. Midway through the
Tropical Cyclones 11 Secrets of Storm Chasersmentalfloss.com - BY Jake Rossen Every year, people around the world board up windows, stock up on essential supplies, and flee their own homes in anticipation of severe weather …
Taylor Swift How Taylor Swift Went From Sweetheart to Snake (and Back Again?)theringer.com - Kate Knibbs In the same way that a meteorologist might struggle to predict a whole year’s weather rather than the next week’s rain, it is exceedingly difficult …
Long-form Journalism ‘They're Putting People at Risk’: Sexual Misconduct, Harassment, and Inaction at Zeel, the Top Massage AppGizmodo - Brian Merchant When Ilene Antelman arrived at a client’s Manhattan duplex in December of 2016, she was in a good mood. She was a veteran massage therapist, and he …
Drinking How Getting Sober Finally Made Me CoolVICE - Molly PriddyMaking the decision to get sober can feel like you’re trading in your identity as a Fun Person to instead become a bummer. But I’m going to tell you a secret, something so annoying, so frustrating, and
NPR Meltdown On Main Street: Inside The Breakdown Of The GOP's Moderate WingNPR - Susan DavisThree weeks after Democrats took control of the U.S. House in the 2018 midterm elections, about 40 reelected and recently defeated lawmakers in the centrist Republican Main Street Caucus gathered at the
Motivation Which style of rest you need, based on your Enneagram type—no naps includedWell+Good - by Tehrene Firman If you’re anything like me, you probably have one response when asked if you’ve gotten enough rest: “Rest? Never heard of her.” In the fast-paced …
Sesame Street How ‘Sesame Street’ Started a Musical RevolutionThe New York Times - By MELENA RYZIKHow many ways can you sing about the letter B? On “Sesame Street,” that question has many furry answers. Since its inception in 1969, the public television show has redefined what it means to teach children
Culture We Did It For The LOLs: 100 Favorite Funny BooksNPR - Petra MayerThe news cycle is driving us to the edge of madness, so why not switch off, unplug and pick up a book? We know you could use a laugh right now — and luckily, several thousand of you told us all about books,
Albums Fall Music Preview: The Albums and Artists to Rock on Repeatshondaland.com - By Dan Hyman Yes, we know, summer is almost over. But, thankfully, when it comes to all things new music, we’re just heating up. This fall some of the world’s …
Albums ‘Old Town Road’ is a surprise megahit. Math can explain why.pbs.org - Nsikan Akpan For more than two decades, Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men could not be knocked off their U.S. Billboard throne. From December 1995 to March 1996, their …
Great Pacific garbage patch This is what it's like to swim through the Great Pacific Garbage PatchNational Geographic - Mary Anne PottsLong-distance swimmer Ben Lecomte is helping collect scientific samples in a vortex of ocean plastic. Roughly a thousand miles southwest of San Francisco, Ben Lecomte, a 52-year-old French long-distance
Titanic Watch footage from first Titanic dive in 14 yearsCNN See the effects of salt corrosion, metal-eating bacteria and deep current action on the decomposition of the 107-year-old wreck.
Fanfiction The Archive of Our Own just won a Hugo. That’s huge for fanfiction.Vox - Aja RomanoThe Archive of Our Own, universally affectionately shorthanded as AO3, is one of the internet’s most well-known fanfiction archives. It just won the Hugo Award for Best Related Work — a significant honor
Long-form Journalism Fidji Simo Is the New Face of FacebookMarie Claire - By Genevieve FieldOutside, it’s 101 degrees, a “new normal” summer day in Silicon Valley, but inside a glass-walled conference room at Facebook’s sprawling Menlo Park compound, the air is goose-bump brisk. Fidji Simo, strides
Fanfiction We Can Be Heroes: How the Nerds Are Reinventing Pop CultureWIRED - Laurie Penny Pay attention to the structure. That's one of the first things they teach you when you start writing for television. If you want to tell a decent …
Constellations Why do different cultures see such similar meanings in the stars?Quartz - Simon CropperAlmost every person throughout the existence of humankind has looked up at the night sky and seen more than just a random scattering of light. Constellations of stars have helped us shape our own ongoing
Entrepreneurship Meet 16 Teen Founders Who Are Building Big Businesses -- and Making Big MoneyEntrepreneur - Entrepreneur StaffToday's youth is already hard at work, building everything from delivery apps to robotic kits to sustainable fashion brands. This story appears in the September 2019 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Cottage Cheese 10 Ways to Flavor Cottage Cheese, the Unsung Hero of the Dairy AisleChowhound - Pamela Vachon Believe it or not, healthy, high-protein cottage cheese can be exciting. Just check out these cottage cheese recipe ideas for proof! Hear me out: …
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