How the Air Fryer Crisped Its Way Into America’s Heart – The New York Times

Though the device is sold as a way to make foods crunchy without deep-frying, home cooks have put it to countless other uses — and fed a billion-dollar business.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/2022/01/25/dining/air-fryer.html

Welcome To The Second Pandemic Winter, I’m Losing My Mind | by John DeVore | Humungus | Jan, 2022 | Medium

The ancient Greek city-state of Athens was ravaged by a mysterious plague during the second year of the Peloponnesian War, in 430 BC. The disease killed one in every four Athenians, the victims…
— Read on medium.com/humungus/welcome-to-the-second-pandemic-winter-im-losing-my-mind-6f20cdf630a2

https://www.thecut.com/article/samaria-rice-profile.html

Are Condos a Bad Real Estate Investment for Financial Independenc

https://www.ourrichjourney.com/blog/are-condos-a-bad-real-estate-investment-for-financial-independence

I’m a Black Woman Who’s Met All the Standards for Promotion. I’m Not Waiting to Reward Myself

https://time.com/5958844/black-woman-self-care/

“American culture encourages you to delay feeling proud of yourself until external validation has been granted. Practice this and you get to the point where you cannot feel proud until that validation materializes. And if it doesn’t, you withhold approval of yourself. Then, because you are always in your own company, you constantly feel like you’re lacking and you get to the point where even external validation cannot land.”

Lil Nas X Reclaims His Queerness to Proclaim His Own Blessedness

Rev. Jacqui Lewis explores the Black liberation theology roots of Lil Nas X’s Montero (Call Me By Your Name) video
— Read on www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a36052411/how-lil-nas-x-is-reclaiming-queerness-to-proclaim-his-own-blessedness/

Tucker Carlson Endorses White Supremacist Theory by Name

Fox News host Tucker Carlson said that the “great replacement,” a white supremacist conspiracy theory that immigrants are being used to displace the native population, is “true.” Carlson’s nativism has long thrilled Nazis and white supremacists.
— Read on nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/04/tucker-carlson-great-replacement-white-supremacist-immigration-fox-news-racism.html

NFTs Are an Art Project Gone Awry – The Atlantic

When we invented non-fungible tokens, we were trying to protect artists. But tech-world opportunism has struck again.
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-werent-supposed-end-like/618488/

www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/03/psychology-of-silent-treatment-abuse/618411/

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/is-americas-great-crime-decline-over/618381/