Новости за 19.05.2023

Taking time out from less sympathetic causes—preventing the exercise of popular rights like abortion, policing who gets to use the bathroom, defending our freedom to be poisoned by our stoves—some American conservatives have acquired a surprisingly relatable obsession: saving the whales.

South Carolina Senator Tim Scott dove into the 2024 Republican presidential scrum in mid-April to a crescendo of yawns. When he announced an exploratory committee (a legal fiction that makes White House dreamers seem like modern-day Vasco da Gamas), Scott was dismissed as a near-irrelevant contender, although he has almost $22 million in the bank from his last Senate campaign. Even coming from South Carolina, the third state on the GOP primary calendar, did not offer Scott a competitive advantage... Читать дальше...

What’s the best way to make your yard more environmentally friendly? Articles on the topic abound this time of year. We’re now halfway through “No Mow May,” an interesting initiative that began in the U.K. and is spreading in the United States. Abstaining from lawn maintenance for a month to help bee populations is certainly easier than ripping up your lawn and planting native wildflowers—which can be pretty expensive and time-consuming. But No Mow May doesn’t solve the broader issues of water use, pesticides, and fertilizer runoff. Читать дальше...

In Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle, a war veteran turned cabbie, drives aimlessly through New York at night, increasingly detached from society and increasingly more violent, until he finds a mission for redemption in saving Iris, a trafficked teenager. Alone in his small apartment, he writes in his journal, “I am God’s lonely man.”

Just over a year ago, the House of Representatives passed a resolution strengthening workplace protections for staffers looking to unionize their Capitol Hill offices. Unions have since formed in 17 House offices—all progressive Democrats’.

The migrants sitting under the tree at Door 40 in Juarez, Mexico, knew that May 11 was an important day, but they couldn’t say exactly why. Most were under the impression they needed to cross the U.S.-Mexico border before that day because no one could give them a good answer for what would happen afterward.

Robyn Caplan understands the fragility of digital memories intimately. After tragically losing both of her parents during the covid pandemic, Caplan treasures the digital possessions she inherited. She cherishes her mom’s iPad, access to her dad’s email inbox, and message threads with both of them. It allows her to see the world through the eyes…

Robert Kennedy Jr. was hell-bent on uncovering the true identity of his father's assassin in the years before his 2024 bid for the White House, RadarOnline.com can report.

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Good health finally came for Bryan Rust but inconsistency plagued his season from the start.

One of the sites that would come under federal oversight is the Waukegan Generating Station on Lake Michigan, a former ComEd coal plant ringed by two unlined ash ponds and an unlicensed landfill.

Thirteen transport companies filed a suit against the Illinois Department of Agriculture.

Megan Doherty's project shows how immunocompromised individuals have lost their participation in public life after mask mandates ended.

The discovery of a massive gemstone in the woods prompts Stefan to forge an unlikely friendship in Vedran Rupic’s absurdist short film.

In Vedran Rupic’s short film, a solitary man looks for love, and friendship, in all the wrong ways.

At a friend’s art show, the pop singer revealed the recipe for her new album, “Gag Order”: holing up in Hawaii, weepy meditation sessions, and howling at the moon.

Last week, dozens of members of ADAPT, the disability-rights group, forced their way into Kevin McCarthy’s office to protest his proposed cuts to the social safety net.

A plane crash strands a high-school girls’ soccer/lacrosse/cheerleading/chess/wilderness-survival team in the woods.

Unlike other blockbuster games, Tears of the Kingdom allows for improvisation, tinkering, and fantastic feats of engineering.

In Koreatown, a mother-daughter team turns out surprising varieties of ramen, jjam bbong packed with spicy seafood, saucy dumplings, and naengmyeon, served ice-cold.

At CityPickle, in Wollman Rink, fourteen newly installed pickleball courts are open daily through the summer.

Been a busy, but quiet week. Some small successes, so I guess that will have to do for the week. Hope that you had a good week, and that you have a fantastic weekend. See you on Monday. 

Via Derek Lowe, this remarkable article about the modern ibuprofen process, and the chemistry behind it, and the people behind it. This description of the politics was rather revealing and unfortunate: 

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Four years after being asked to join Selling Sunset, Bre Tiesi was finally ready to put herself on the market. The real estate agent is one of the new faces in the mix on the Netflix hit's sixth...

A Senate committee voted unanimously on Wednesday to approve a bill designed to help agencies get a handle on software licensing with an eye to cutting costs.