Measuring poverty on a spectrum instead of an arbitrary line conveys a more accurate picture of inequality theconversation.com/measuring-po...

Life and Death at the Grand Canyon open.substack.com/pub/emilywri...

Pete Hegseth Really Gets To Me open.substack.com/pub/lizadonn...

“Life was like that, after all; my spirit soars in the moment of its oblivion; then down, down deep into the pillow…” F. Scott Fitzgerald on his fight with insomnia (and a mosquito).

“Who are we as a species if we allow monarch butterflies, a living symbol of metamorphosis, to cease to exist?” Terry Tempest Williams on the plight of the monarch butterfly.

The PEN/Faulkner Foundation has announced the five finalists for the 2026 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

📚💙 #booksky #memoir #society #socialchange #giselepelicot #bookreviews #bookrecs #tbr #mustread

Workers at the American Library Association have announced that they’re forming union with AFSCME Council 31.

How a bill targeting trans literature could ban all LGBTQ+ books from American public schools (and why you should care).

Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction.

Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for nonfiction.

On Ezra Pound, Mussolini’s biggest fan: “…Pound lauded Mussolini’s accomplishments—such as reducing crime and improving Italy’s road and railway networks—while also advocating that fascism was the only cure…”

How expanding educational opportunities can carve paths away from poverty.

@marissalevien.bsky.social makes a case against gamified reading.

Are we reviewing ourselves to death? “If someone tells me something nice, great, but otherwise, I’ve done my part. I made you a thing, world. I gave you a piece of myself.”

How do you respond when someone you love begins to inhabit a reality you cannot share? Reflecting on his father’s dementia, a philosopher writes with warmth and humble honesty about the emotional tightrope his family walks each day, capturing the moral complexity of deciding what care truly means

What if the future is already judging us? In this Note to Self, Matt invites us into a disquieting thought experiment: is there something we’re doing today that future generations will see as morally contemptible? And more unsettling still – do we already sense it’s wrong, yet carry on regardless?

Written by the the European Press Prize laureate Kaya Genç, this carefully told Psyche Portrait of the Kurdish novelist Burhan Sönmez traces his journey from despair to purpose in the wake of political violence, capturing his extraordinary drive and intellect @kayagenc.bsky.social

For those who’ve been subjected to physical or emotional abuse by a partner, re-entering the dating world often feels unnerving. If this reflects your experience, this Guide will give you practical advice on how to clarify what you want, increase your sense of safety, and build trust again

Since the 2000s, intelligence researchers have been faced with a strange new trend – average IQ scores have been decreasing across the West. But the ‘negative Flynn Effect’ is not all it’s made out to be, writes the author Stuart Jeffries – and neither are IQ tests

In this funny and deeply felt short, the director Max Henderson captures the journey of a ‘wingwalker’ and an aerobatic display pilot as they recover from becoming members of The Goldfish Club – a group for people who’ve survived an aircraft crash into water – and return to the air

In the Wake of the Storm www.biographic.com/in-the-wake-...

Near Brazil’s Belo Monte dam, many households still face high power bills and outages. In remote Amazon villages, residents are building their own systems using solar panels and river turbines, bringing reliable electricity, internet access and local technical skills.

Armed conflict in Cameroon’s anglophone regions has engulfed protected forests home to great apes. Violence blocks conservation work as displaced people and militias move into forests to survive. Scientists are turning to local citizen scientists to keep monitoring wildlife.

Does too high a % of ecological restoration & rewilding focus on large ground mammals? 🌰 Evidence shows how canopy bridges reconnect forest trees divided by roads, reducing #roadkill & forest fragmentation effects for arboreal species across South America From @mongabay.com #GenerationRestoration

About a quarter of Colombia’s coffee exports go to Europe, meaning producers must meet the EU’s new deforestation rules. A national georeferenced database could help prove compliance, but many smallholder and Indigenous farmers still lack information to prepare.

apnews.com/article/dayl... This weekend’s US clock change is a problem, and there’s a deep divide on how to fix it

apnews.com/article/post... US Postal Service expects to run out of cash in a year without help from Congress, postmaster says

apnews.com/article/epst... Justice Department publishes missing Epstein files involving uncorroborated claim about Trump

apnews.com/article/chri... 'Christ is king' becomes a loaded phrase in US political debates, especially on the right

The celebrated Aboriginal Australian artist Betty Conway, from the Pintupi-Luritja language group, is known for her vibrant use of colour. This short animation adapts her painting ‘After Rain at Running Water’ (2020), depicting a day spent outdoors after a much-needed rainfall

The Gulf’s delicate balancing act between the US and Iran is now in flames theconversation.com/the-gulfs-de...

The US sank an Iranian warship and didn’t rescue the survivors. Is this legal in war? theconversation.com/the-us-sank-...

We really need to talk more about supremacist ideology being enforced through sexual violence even among men which is minimized & dismissed as "hazing." Two boys were terrorized with racist rhetoric & repeatedly sexually assaulted. The school protected the perpetrators.

Do Seed Oils Cause Inflammation? open.substack.com/pub/zenithwi...

How Stand Up For Science is trying to ’pull every lever‘ to win over the public www.statnews.com/2026/03/06/s... via @statnews.com

Across ERs, Tylenol orders for pregnant people dropped after health officials linked drug to autism www.statnews.com/2026/03/05/t... via @statnews.com

Poetry is a bird perched lightly on the back of all that is fickle and dangerous in this world...

The Psychology of Fair Labor | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/huma...

📚💙 #booksky Booklovers: Which book from the International @thebookerprizes.com Prize 2026 longlist should you read first? open.substack.com/pub/thebooke...

Kitchen Postcard - Gomasio open.substack.com/pub/thecooki...

Helpful Cats open.substack.com/pub/namd/p/h...

Happiness Break: A Meditation For Connecting In Polarized Times greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/ite...

Am I Doing This Right? School-Aged Kids Edition greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

TerraPower, a start-up founded by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, is set to build a new kind of nuclear power plant in Wyoming

New gene therapy results bring hope for treating Dravet syndrome, a rare and often fatal seizure condition

Many older adults improve their physical and cognitive health over time, overturning the idea that aging equates to a decline

Public health chaos and research funding cuts are inspiring nationwide pro-science protests against the Trump administration

As clocks spring forward, light and movement are cues for daytime wakefulness that can improve sleep and overall health

A massive bloom of rimu berries in New Zealand fueled a mating surge among the critically endangered Kākāpō. spklr.io/6044E87xp 📸: New Zealand Department of Conservation