What I wouldn't give right now for a good snowstorm.

[conuly]

Trapper Keeper Contraband

The Marvelous Manholes of Massachusetts

What Makes A Human Brain Unique? A Newly Discovered Neuron May Be A Clue

How a Seven Year Old Kid Convinced Us to Strangle Ourselves

How sharing a Hawaiian pizza from Pizza Hut became a Beijing family tradition

How Eating Poop Makes These Mole-Rats More Motherly

The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages

The rare blue the Maya invented

Israel’s Latest Culture War Plays Out Under the Wedding Canopy

How doorbell cameras are creating dilemmas for police, neighborhoods

The truth about the Trump economy

All career advice for women is a form of gaslighting

They’re Falsely Accused of Shoplifting, but Retailers Demand Penalties

Honey the lonely dolphin, abandoned in Japanese aquarium, sparks public outcry

America Soured on My Multiracial Family

We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage (All trigger warnings for child abuse apply)

Nicholas D'Agostino targeted women in alleged multiple shooting incidents, investigators say (Are assholes like this becoming more common, or do we simply hear about them more?)

'Everybody's talking about them, but who's talking with them?': Documenting Rohingyas' stories

Rohingya girls in danger: Teenage bride, missing daughter, sex worker (Video)

Comments

[rebeccmeister]

Our household thermometer here is the thermostat in the dining room. Yesterday when I got home from work it was at 88 degrees, which is above my temperature comfort threshold even when "it's a dry heat" (Arizona). I did not sleep well, and today isn't looking too promising, either. No a/c here. Sigh.

Ah well.

[gingicat]

My Dad works for Hiddush as a US representative, working from home in NYC and traveling.

[siderea]

We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage (All trigger warnings for child abuse apply)

Thank you for this. One of the most difficult things I've ever read. I have no idea how the author wrote it. And this: "I went through every death certificate for Chittenden County and Burlington from the 1920s through to the 1980s." Oh, is that all.

[conuly]

Sounds like useful work, but then, I'm always for more religious freedom everywhere.

[conuly]

It's that defense attorney I can't get out of my mind. How does he even sleep at night? I agree that all people, no matter how disgusting their crimes, deserve to be defended in court... but there's a level we should not stoop to!

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy for any sort of precipitation; preferably without lightning.

[conuly]

NO THUNDERSNOW.