It's a heavy subject, but I'd really encourage people to read this from my colleague Dorothy Slater, who spends her days working as a nurse in an oncology ward in Louisiana's cancer alley. Data centers are the latest addition to the miasma of pollution slowly killing her patients
Hagan esto con porotos/garbanzos/soja texturizada para versión veggie podes hacer en cantidades y dejar en el freezer, es de esas cosas que se van volviendo mas ricas con el correr de los días
This is quite wonderful!
A bird observatory in Scheelhoek Reserve, Netherlands
Constructed from a timber frame covered in thatch made from local harvested reeds
Another great @NYCMayor infrastructure fix of low-hanging fruit. After years of failed, half-hearted attempts to fix the pooling issue on the Brooklyn Bridge bike lane, @NYC_DOT regraded the roadway and now it drains. Bon voyage Lakes Gutman, Ydanis, and Polly. cc @StreetsblogNYC
We at the Review mourn the loss of Annie Dillard (1945–2026). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked “For the Time Being,” Dillard's 1998 piece about the life of the French priest and scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, from the archive. https://t.co/24GRqHR4iT
i’ve watched a lot of friends make unnecessarily costly decisions under the assumption that every element of one’s life must be a political expression — including:
staying in exploitative nonprofit jobs, forgoing kids bc of climate change guilt, hooking themselves up to an IV drip of political news when it makes them miserable, cutting off family with even slight political disagreements.
and i think very little of it redounds to any public benefit. it often impoverishes their life and by extension others’.
the most effective and resilient public interest advocates i know cut themselves and others a lot of slack, because life is hard enough.
In light of AI panic have been thinking about this great David Graeber essay, on the controversy among evolutionary biologists over whether animals can play, and whether humans evolved consciousness in order to lie
https://t.co/HMacjngQSg
The bus shelter at Pitkin Ave. and Saratoga Ave. just got a bit cooler.
This shelter is the home of the city’s first ever heat resilient green roof — adorned with native plants to keep it cool during extreme heat.
New Yorkers who rely on the bus deserve comfortable shelters.
I taught a few classes on the reported essay this year and the point I kept trying to make was that in an age of limitless photographic recreation your job as a writer isn't just to make readers see what you saw but to make them feel it. No one did that better than Dillard.