Reads I Read
& Interesting Found Things
- Ed Yong, A Genetic Study Writes a New Origin Story for Dogs
- Adrienne LaFrance, Machines That Can See Depression on a Person’s Face
- Erik Olsen, Museum Specimens Find New Life Online
- Gretchen Reynolds, Lifting Weights, Twice a Week, May Aid the Brain
- Nicholas Schmidle, Ten Borders
- Karan Mahajan, The Two Asian Americas
- Patrick, Heij, 2015’s Most Terrifying Last-Minute D.I.Y. Halloween Costumes
- (Ha! Love.) “Inebriated Woman Who Thinks Every Car Is Her Uber” and “Fully Autonomous Man Bun.”
- Diana Budds, This 1939 Chart Explains How Color Affects Legibility
- John Brownlee, Explore 14 Billion Years Of Wikipedia History With This Hypnotic Data Viz
- Matan Stauber, Histography
- Daniel Engber, The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield
- “In late 1993, ‘‘Frontline’’ aired a special that told Betsy Wheaton’s story, among others, and suggested that facilitated communication was an elaborate display of what psychologists call the ideomotor effect, in which an external suggestion or a person’s beliefs or expectations trigger unconscious movement: The facilitator was guiding the typing, even if she didn’t know it.” *
- , Why Can’t We Just Let Girls Be Girls? Readers on the Term “Tomboy”
- Dayna Evans, Men Love Smart Women Until They Actually Have to Talk to Them
- Alex Morris, College Virgins Are a Mostly Silent Almost-Majority
- (Kindred spirit) “She says her dream guy would have “tattoos and a man bun.””
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