On the morning of Friday, February 28th, Ævar Pálmi Pálmason, a detective with the Reykjavík police department, was summoned by his boss. Iceland did not yet have a confirmed case of COVID -19 , but t

What you should know about Black birders. #BlackBirdersWeek #conservation #ChristianCooper #BlackInNature #nature #PoliticalEcology https://t.co/CfiYi78Kew via @ConversationCA — Jacqueline L. Scott, Black Outdoors (@BlackOutdoors1) June 2, 2020 Tweeted by @BlackOutdoors1

ROBYN BECK / Chip Somodevilla / SAUL LOEB / NICHOLAS KAMM / BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP / Getty A couple of years ago, BuzzFeed asked a former White House official to explain the logic behind some bizarr

Archive Pics / Alamy / The Atlantic So many mysteries surround Donald Trump: the contents of his tax returns, the apparent miracle of his graduation from college. Some of them are merely curiosities;

Oil companies are famous for approaching hapless farmers and buying drilling rights for their properties for next to nothing. The farmers don’t realize they are sitting on tens of millions of dollars

Brandi Billotte is a graduate student at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. In the fall, she will begin to pursue her PhD in English Literature and…

Subscribe ALAIN DE BOTTON has become the self-help guru to the British middle-class—a life coach pitched at those who might read The Guardian on an iPad, buy ethical chocolate, and assert an interest in the Booker shortlist . If you’re a certain kind of amateur intellectual with self-improving…

IS THE VERY IDEA of an intelligent self-help book a paradox? It is certainly trying to serve two demanding masters: philosophical speculation and practical…

echiner1 / Flickr Philosophy has earned a reputation as a complicated, inaccessible, and irrelevant pursuit, consigned mostly to old white men in wood-paneled offices. It’s vaguely associated with asking the kinds of big questions—Do we exist? What does life mean? Is there such thing as right or…

Friday was my last day at Amazon: https://t.co/kXYDPdNbs7 [Server’s running a little hot but give it time, it’ll come through.] — Tim Bray (@timbray) May 4, 2020 Tweeted by @timbray

High Park has been entirely closed, fenced in, barricaded and monitored by cops in idling police cars to keep cherry blossom crowds away. The city has failed the people of this city in its Dickensian approach to public space. @shawnmicallef https://t.co/RThM4kAT0J — Toronto Star (@TorontoStar) May…

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The critic Raymond Williams once wrote that every historical period has its own “structure of feeling.” How everything seemed in the nineteen-sixties, the way the Victorians understood one another, the chivalry of the Middle Ages, the world view of Tang-dynasty China: each period, Williams thought,…

On the Nova Scotia shootings, and an inhuman crime in a strangely inhuman time: https://t.co/RsbcsszNaK — Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) April 21, 2020 Tweeted by @bruce_arthur

With the end of the month here, millions of Americans are wondering how they’ll pay their rent or mortgage, especially as companies continue to lay off or furlough staff and the number of unemployment claims continues to rise each week. There are already wider impacts due to late and missing rent…

https://t.co/iji5HVu0k0 It's finally out! I wrote for @voxdotcom about how Complex PTSD is actually helping me survive this pandemic, and how what we usually consider to be "mental illness" can now be healthy adaptation. — Stephanie Foo (@imontheradio) April 30, 2020 Tweeted by @imontheradio

We Can’t Leave Our Own Cities For Another 6 Months Or More: https://t.co/qTz5Y5eHQe — Roland Tanglao 猪肉面 (@rtanglao) May 1, 2020 Tweeted by @rtanglao

BREAKING: ICANN has voted to REJECT the sale of the .ORG registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital. This is a major victory for the millions of nonprofits, civil society organizations, and individuals who make .ORG their home online. #SaveDotOrg https://t.co/K2qk85c3Ug…

What Do Famous People’s Bookshelves Reveal? https://t.co/gI2wNWu0nO — Joseph Planta (@Planta) April 30, 2020 Tweeted by @Planta

A Theory of Zoom Fatigue https://t.co/gXANBXHdRl using the analogy of grip to describe the interaction between people works well. — Angus Pratt 🇨🇦 (@anguspratt) April 21, 2020 Tweeted by @anguspratt

Yesterday, we flew medical supplies from Shanghai to Iceland. Before landing at KEF, our flight path drew a heart over the hospitals in Reykjavik to show gratitude to our healthcare workers. Takk fyrir, to everyone who’s working hard to keep us all safe💙✈️https://t.co/8Ew7HY8Zhy…

It’s the essay nobody asked for, “Against Performative Nonsense.” I speak of the present crisis, purity spirals, and using your authority wisely:https://t.co/g5l0oW4haz — Ryan Cousineau (@rcousine) April 14, 2020 Tweeted by @rcousine

In our collective attempt to flatten the curve , grocery shopping has become a minefield. We are not supposed to leave our homes, yet we have to keep feeding ourselves; as a result, what used to be a comforting annoyance now feels dangerous. Can you touch that cereal box? Why is that person standing…

In my 20s I was obsessed with food but had no idea how to cook. Lots of recipes told me how to do things perfectly but I, an anxious mess, needed permission to try and mess up. I wrote this for past me and everyone else learning to boil water rn https://t.co/Cejb65saVd — Meghan McCarron…

Interview I gave with people back in Vancouver today from Spain -https://t.co/XozxV5HQka — Duane Storey (@DuaneStorey) March 23, 2020 Tweeted by @DuaneStorey

Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred face touches https://t.co/F6h03un7X7 — Kevin Nguyen (@knguyen) March 4, 2020 Tweeted by @knguyen

The internet has been reshaped by a fresh anxiety over posting—and revealing—too much. Amidst the millions of social media users is a sizable chunk well-acquainted with what I’ll call “post-post anxiety.” It’s a dreadful malady, really; with symptoms that come on after you’ve fired off a tweet or…

honored to have reviewed rebecca solnit's new memoir 🌞https://t.co/rasRAtQHFQ — jenny odell (@the_jennitaur) March 7, 2020 Tweeted by @the_jennitaur

Bit of poetry about that dis-intermediation between movement and a world stuck in place called "Railyards Passing By" https://t.co/9luosjGswI pic.twitter.com/dfYkPCxQvu — DaveO (@DaveOstories) March 3, 2020 Tweeted by @DaveOstories

Join the next #Flickr Worldwide Photowalk Day on April 4th! Meet new people, take awesome photos, see your city through a new lens. Find out more: https://t.co/ENvgrE93ha#flickrphotowalk #flickrphotowalkday — Flickr (@Flickr) March 5, 2020 Tweeted by @Flickr

Back to the Future (of Drupal) https://t.co/D0HncC1Mzb #drupal — Ethical Detergent (@e14t) February 24, 2020 Tweeted by @e14t

Magazine An Unsettling New Theory: There Is No Swing Voter Rachel Bitecofer’s radical new theory predicted the midterms spot-on. So who’s going to win 2020? Photo by Julia Rendleman for Politico Magazine By DAVID FREEDLANDER 02/06/2020 05:09 AM EST David Freedlander writes about politics and…

I just returned home from a trip to New York, where everyone I met was very excited to meet a Canadian in real life. “What’s Canada like?” they asked, looking at me with eager, puppy eyes. “I think about moving there sometimes. What’s it like? What do you guys do there? Is it cold? Tell me…

Cities are human habitat, evolved over thousands of years to be in balance humans. The radical experiment of the past century to reshape the places we live has changed what it means to be human in spooky ways we're struggling to grasp. https://t.co/dotNhkiYim — Strong Towns (@StrongTowns)…

Since Ton referenced my cooking, I better share something recent. Tonight was Broken Down Duck with Olives and Tomatoes. https://t.co/4SXwYiNHf5 pic.twitter.com/16zuo5F5HP — Boris Mann (@bmann) February 18, 2020 Tweeted by @bmann

An app can be a home-cooked meal Have you heard about this new app called BoopSnoop? It launched in the first week of 2020, and almost immediately, it was downloaded by four people in three different time zones. In the months since, it has remained steady at four daily active users, with zero churn:…

Reading @robinsloan's "An app can be a home-cooked meal" got me bouncing around the blogosphere of @ton_zylstra & @rtanglao to write "Tools for home cooking" https://t.co/ERQ8sFWb6b We can build tools for home cooking. But we have to design them that way from the beginning. — Boris Mann (@bmann)…

“Knowing that your neighbourhood is made up of real people elevates the level of trust. Accountability cultivates kindness.” -@chrisdoyle, #nextdoorcanada Country Manager // Learn more on how Nextdoor is cultivating kindness via @globeandmail @LiaGrainger https://t.co/fLUrJXcfmO — Nextdoor…

as i reported in a cover story feature last weekend for the star🙃... https://t.co/qQ5OB4S9SP https://t.co/dCBfxOeUkv — Jen Kirsch (@jen_kirsch) February 6, 2020 Tweeted by @jen_kirsch

Gals, date my friend @jchidleyhill. He's a mensch and, as NOW Magazine's @nataliamanzocco reports, he's sick of online dating!https://t.co/6wVfbs1Mbz https://t.co/OfWGFQG9Va — Lola Landekic (@lolamachine) February 6, 2020 Tweeted by @lolamachine