The bug-obsessed Danish biologist who has roamed the roads for 25 years tallying insect smooshes on his windshield despite grave health problems is [DEEP INHALE] only like the 4th most interesting thing in this Andrew Van Dam piece. washingtonpost.com/business/2022/…

NYC is limiting the hours when trash is taken out because of issues with rats, and it's genuinely hard to pick a favorite quote from today's presser

Pick your fighter:

“This is what I’ve sort of realized, you know, if we had a major nuclear exchange—life would go on. Differently, but mostly in recognizable ways. I did put this question up on Twitter the other day.” palladiummag.com/2022/09/14/lif…

Has anyone seen this Chevron commercial?

God, this is wonderful: “It’s what’s left in the sieve when the centuries have run through it.” She was so brilliant. That’s life, man.

It’s astonishing really that we are in the midst of a climate catastrophe and this isn’t the most urgent topic in our election. nytimes.com/2022/09/11/wor…

A little lightly concealed self-help from me in ⁦WIRED⁩

The Secret to Being Lucky | WIRED wired.com/story/secret-t…

'I grew up in a world in which it seemed perfectly normal to suggest or to posit a cultural description of Islam rather than a religious one.' -Sir Salman Rushdie while honored Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard & MIT's 30th anniversary conference, The New Humanism. Photos via Juliette Melton flickr.com/photos/julieme…

Political journalism underestimates the role of Christian Dominionism in our country.

Theocracy is simply not compatible with democracy.

Telling us to “vote like our lives depend on it” misses the mark. For them this is one nation “under God”

Not “under Democracy”.

What.

OK so I'm biased because I've been following Tiktaalik news since 2004, but this article is a masterpiece

Here’s a partial list of reporters on the ground and others who know what they’re talking about. twitter.com/i/lists/149432…

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Research friends, this is a fabulous role.

I love this so much

me and Tejal Rao patiently waiting for you to sign up for The Veggie, her new NYT Food newsletter dedicated to vegetarian cooking nytimes.com/newsletters/th…

Just found out that in 2012 French Beekeepers could not solve the mystery of the blue and green colored honey in their beehives until they discovered that the bees were visiting a local M&M factory. Sometimes the answer is really simple, you just can't imagine it.

No joke, NYT needs someone on the UFO beat. The truth is out there.

Looking for ways to help India in its acute covid crisis? Reporter Amanat Khullar, my former colleague, based in New Delhi, has a thread here of ways foreigners can help: