‘Deny, denounce, delay.’ “Corporate affairs professionals say food companies are overwhelmed by the level of public concern about UPFs and are scrambling to find an effective way to counter it.” on.ft.com/3yxMHkr

“Compulsively readable!” Thanks to Anne Osterman UChicagoPress for recommending A Book of Noises as a summer read, alongside Robert Pogue Harrison’s Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition, a book I love pressblog.uchicago.edu/2024/05/23/wha…

The land is belching up the past and swallowing the present... but Russia, like many other countries, continues to pillage its natural resources, undaunted by the threat of greater disruption still to come with climate change Sophie Pinkham nytimes.com/2024/05/23/opi…

Penetrating analysis by Aslı Ü. Bâli, in conversation with Ezra Klein with regard to Israel, Palestine, the UN and dangers to an international rules-based system, such as as it is nytimes.com/2024/05/17/opi…

Did you get enough love, my little dove
Why do you cry?
And I'm sorry I left, but it was for the best

'as the war grinds on, we Israelis are not who we think we are. We may think we know our boundaries and principles; we may think we are on the side of right; we may think we are in control. Yet what was once unthinkable soon becomes the norm.' Avner Gvaryahu nytimes.com/2024/05/20/opi…

‘How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals.’ Powerful and devastating piece from Sharon Lerner ProPublica newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

“signs of weakening resilience raise concerns that the world’s greatest tropical forest – and biggest terrestrial carbon sink – is degrading towards a point of no return” theguardian.com/environment/ar…

“The legal arguments are unimpeachable. The real issue is the political wisdom of issuing requests for arrest warrants in the midst of a conflict” Philippe Sands on BBC Radio 4 Today

“linking up different clusters in the brain responsible for storing groups of concepts…allowed modern humans to draw a line between widely different concepts and ideas. This [enabled] us to come up with complex and abstract concepts.” Steven Mithen theconversation.com/how-neandertha…

'David Thewlis’s performance in Mike Leigh's 'Naked' (1993) is my favorite male performance ever. There’s nothing like it. It’s a bleak film, but it’s so filled with life and passion and it’s so funny.'

--- Ari Aster

“The human testicles had a plastic concentration almost three times higher than that found in the dog testes.” Thank goodness a lot of thoughtful dog owners out there didn’t let their pets chew on plastic toys

“Instagram has lately come to feel like a radical experiment in violent Dadaist juxtaposition, whereby a slick proliferation of consumerist spectacle is continually ruptured by images of terrible violence and suffering.”