As the Climate Collapses, We Ask: “How Then Shall We Live?”
Modern Weather Forecasts Are Stunningly Accurate
Greenpeace ships set sail to tell the global story of plastic pollution
Weekly Sift: A Fishy Emergency Threatens the Republic
The case for capping all prison sentences at 20 years
Melinda and Bill Gates’s Annual Letter discussing surprises from toilets to sexist data to textbooks
It’s illegal to drive your car covered in snow and ice in New York State
Every Building on Every Block: NYC property tax photos from the 1930s
It’s Impossible to Follow a Conversation on Twitter
This week with John Oliver:Brexit III
New York’s Rejection of Amazon Isn’t Anti-Tech, It’s Pro-People
Deepfake: A Brief History of Unreliable Images
FTC Details Big Jump in Losses, Complaints about Romance Scams
Isaac Newton’s Secret Religious Writings and Apocalyptic Prediction
Ken Levine podcast: TV in the age of Ageism
The original obituary of Frederick Douglass
Meet the Safecracker of Last Resort
What one wants from hotel showers
Europeans Keep Finding Ancient Dodecahedrons in the Dirt
The 25 Most Influential Movie Scenes of the Past 25 Years
Stanley Donen, co-director of ‘Singin’ in the Rain,’ dies at 94
Nurses from the Opening Credits of the TV show MASH
The Forgotten Story of the American Troops Who Got Caught Up in the Russian Civil War
For decades, the only thing staving off a worldwide Socialist revolution was a grouchy librarian
Now I Know: When Sears Sold Homes by Mail and Why The $1 Bill Doesn’t Change and When Doing the Math Meant Breaking the Law and How to Recycle Thousands of Tons of Military-Grade Metal
The canine section: He finished the race, didn’t he? and Good dog
Greg Burgas: More comics lists we can argue about!
Movie trailers for the movies Yesterday (2019), about Beatles music, and Who Is Arthur Chu?,, the sometimes hated JEOPARDY champion
The Most Bizarre Stock Photos I Could Find Brought to Life by Your Captions
MUSIC
The Dunning-Kruger Song, from The Incompetence Opera
Why -Tracy Chapman (Live 1990)
I Wanna Be a Lifeguard – Scud Lightning
(Gimme Some of That) Ol’ Atonal Music – Merle Hazard
The Ball Game – Sister Wynona Carr
Coverville 1250: Cover Stories for Robert Palmer and Bobby Brown and 1251: Gerry Goffin Cover Story and 1252: The Chinese Zodiac of Cover Songs
One Hundred Ways – James Ingram
Orpheus in the Underworld overture – Jacques Offenbach
Theme from The Muppet Show, a cappella rendition – Mr Dooves
You Won’t Bring Me Down – Sina
Private Eyes – Sleeping At Last
Black Velvet Band – Irish Rovers
B.E.R. – The Night Begins To Shine
Chuck Miller: The times that I met Peter Tork
