Forty-Five Pizzas
The Tannery Marketplace in downtown Newburyport is an old mill building. Inside it there are shops and markets and small businesses. But there's one place I keep thinking about after I leave, and it's a pizza shop.
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Professional Meteorologists
Meteorology is one of the sciences that got very good, and the standing joke is still that the weatherman is always wrong. The polling says we trust them. Our conversations say otherwise. Both are true, and the gap between them is more interesting than either.
Link: The Human Override
My Health Insurance Denied My Cancer Treatment – and My Humanity, So I Emailed the CEO ↗ — Elizabeth Nicholas, Vanity Fair
A Few More Names
A thank-you for reading Toxicity Is Genderless, and some more names readers sent my way.
Link: Distrust isn’t discernment
Why is Everything a Conspiracy Now? ↗ — Hannah Glenn, Hannah is Spiraling
And I often wonder if conspiracy theories are actually comforting to people, because the idea that there is no plan, might be far worse.
There are plenty of good reasons to be suspicious of powerful people and institutions. But there’s a difference between questioning what you’re told and deciding that whatever you’re told must be a lie. The second one can feel like critical thinking without requiring much thinking at all.
I also keep coming back to the entertainment part. Are we trying to understand what happened, or are we hoping the next detail makes the story more interesting?