The Pulitzer awarded no prize this year for editorial cartooning despite having Tom the Dancing Bug among its finalists—his “Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy Day in Trump’s America” was worth the prize alone. Tom Tomorrow points out the problems well.
Lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife.
Seven moral rules that unite humanity.
John Steinbeck’s editor removes all the werewolves from his work.
The cost of eating out to help out.
The psychology of human misjudgment.
What if you could do it all over?
Your brain doesn’t work the way you think it does.
Where is the dividing line between you and the world?
Revenge bedtime procrastination.
Be a schedule builder, not a to-do list maker.
How to make the most of your resolutions.
The joys of being an absolute beginner.
Why you should talk to yourself in the third person.
Acceptance is key to introverts’ well-being.
Mathematicians discover the perfect way to multiply. Mathematics shows how to ensure evolution.
Fragments of energy may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe. A teenager explains quantum mechanics.
The mystery of the Antikythera mechanism.
The ancient city of Hegra makes its public debut. The oldest city in the Americas is under invasion.
National priorities. The nothing women know all too well.
Read the standing orders. Read them and understand them. (Mefi.)
Five pandemic mistakes we keep repeating.
The best and worst places to be in the pandemic. How your country compares.
How Iceland hammered Covid with science. The world’s unlikeliest pandemic success story.
The hunt for Europe’s earliest, crucial Covid-19 deaths.
The pandemic heroes who gave us the gifts of time and information.
Britain’s outbreak through the eyes of a New Zealand nurse.
Michael Rosen on what it feels like to nearly die.
Their noses paid the bills. Then Covid took their sense of smell.