Casual reading for the intellectually curious.
Saturday, August 19, 2017
Why those Confederate soldier statues look a lot like their Union counterparts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/why-those-confederate-soldier-statues-look-a-lot-like-their-union-counterparts/2017/08/18/cefcc1bc-8394-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html
See the cool kids lined up outside that new restaurant? This app pays them to stand there.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/08/16/see-the-hipsters-lined-up-outside-that-new-restaurant-this-app-pays-them-to-stand-there/
Friday, August 18, 2017
Why George Guidall Is the Undisputed King of Audiobooks
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/books/george-guidall-audiobooks.html
What Robert E. Lee Wrote to The Times About Slavery in 1858
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/us/robert-e-lee-slaves.html
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
When Families Lead Themselves Out of Poverty
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/opinion/poverty-family-independence-initiative.html
How to Roll Back Fanaticism
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/opinion/fanaticism-white-nationalists-charlottesville.html
Monday, August 14, 2017
The other James A. Fields: He rose from slavery to success in segregated Virginia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/14/the-other-james-a-fields-he-rose-from-slavery-to-success-in-segregated-virginia/
70 years later, survivors recall the horrors of India-Pakistan partition
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/70-years-later-survivors-recall-the-horrors-of-india-pakistan-partition/2017/08/14/3b8c58e4-7de9-11e7-9026-4a0a64977c92_story.html
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Antarctica Fruitcake Is Over 100 Years Old, and ‘Almost’ Edible
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/13/world/europe/fruitcake-antarctica-scott.html
You’ll Never Be as Radical as This 18th-Century Quaker Dwarf
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/opinion/sunday/youll-never-be-as-radical-as-this-18th-century-quaker-dwarf.html
The Mystery of S., the Man with an Impossible Memory
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-mystery-of-s-the-man-with-an-impossible-memory
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