After the Turkey

FLYING SUCKS
Study finds flying in America is worse than ever
Why does airline travel make people grumpy?
Why air travel sucks
How designers would fix air travel
How Obama is trying to make air travel better
(This is one thing that was better in the 1960s)

WOMEN OF GLORY
10 things you probably didn’t know about Willa Cather
Smart Girl Club
Street hijab fashion
The ultimate Maggie Nelson reading list
Pearl Hart

AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
The latest Reparations podcast
Inside the murky world of DIY abortions
The NSA spy hub in Manhattan: hidden in plain sight

GRAB BAG
The Boston molasses disaster of 1919
A more accurate flat world map
Dial-up modem handshake sound
The epic uncool of Philip Seymour Hoffman

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GET SMARTER

LOOK
Amazing and gorgeous data visualizations of the 19th century
The Green Book, a black motorist’s guide for surviving and thriving on road trips across America during the first half of the 20th century

WATCH
Trophy Homes on Martha’s Vineyard
Animated short: The Selkie Bride
The Hitch-hiker, the first film noir by a woman director (Ida Lupino)
Get Smart, full episodes online

READ
Leopoldine Core in W
Hot Sex and Young Girls in The New York Review of Books
One hundred first person essays from the London Review of Books, by location

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