Beyond thrilled to learn that Carl Zimmer (!!) selected my Harper's Magazine piece, 'Bright Flight,' to be included in this fall's Best American Science and Nature Writing. Many thanks to my lovely editor Will Stephenson and Mariner Books! harpers.org/archive/2022/0…

“Look, I’m no ordinary notebook. I’m a PROFESSIONAL REPORTER’S notebook!”

Heard the brilliant Alyssa A. Goodman talk about this strange '9,000-light-year-long ribbon of matter' this weekend and am now in jeopardy of spending the entire week looking at images of space. harvardmagazine.com/2020/01/interg…

Great guest lecture from former student and Memphis music expert Jared 'Jay B.' Boyd last week. Somebody give him a book contract.

I literally thought the University of Mississippi was under attack. It was LOUD and LOW.

Fascinating to observe what it took for this Brett Favre story to percolate up from Mississippi to the national papers.

I'm glad the rest of the world is finally paying attention to this.

Is there some type of easy fix for switching off the annoying autocorrect when you're texting in another language?

I took methotrexate to end an ectopic pregnancy and will forever be grateful. It was safe, it was life-saving, and it gave me a far better chance of one day having a baby than a ruptured fallopian tube and surgery would have. This is so sad and so unjust.

for decades, we’ve said, “so goes mississippi, so goes the nation.” maybe one day y’all will listen.

Rich to read in this #SCOTUS draft rejecting Roe that there's adequate health care coverage for pregnancy and childbirth. This from a case originating in Mississippi, where GOP lawmakers just nixed a bill to expand postpartum coverage for the poor.

This is a beautiful story about the communities to be found outside our cars.
nytimes.com/2022/04/26/opi…

STDs are surging. The funding to fight them is not. politi.co/3vgIbBD via POLITICO

Mississippi corruption is so epic we need 'character lists,' like we're living in a George R.R. Martin novel.

Tired by Langston Hughes

I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.

LH Papers bit.ly/2FKP6KP

I have lofty ideas about teaching critical thinking. But the big takeaway for several of my students today was the simple fact that pangolins exist. It's enough.

Anybody have a great summer program suggestion for a smart political science major from Ukraine who probably can't go home for the summer? He's looking towards grad school in IR/security studies.

Type II Fun forever.
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