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Laugh Lines

The New Yorker 

Can you guess when these New Yorker cartoons were originally published?

Yule Log Spiral Puzzle

The New Yorker 

Fill in the letters to finish decorating this wintry dessert.

On Goops and Slops

The New Yorker 

Two cartoonists dig into their food-texture issues.

With a Clip-Clip Here: Sewing Up Oz for “Wicked”

The New Yorker 

Paul Tazewell, a former wizard himself, commanded a staff of a hundred and forty people to dream up and sew the costumes that Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, and company wore over the rainbow.

Letters from Our Readers

The New Yorker 

Readers respond to The New Yorker Radio Hour, Stephania Taladrid’s piece about maternal-care doctors leaving Texas, and James Somers’s article about teaching robots with A.I.

Bored Game

The New Yorker 

Traverse the morass of traffic, the sea of awkwardness, and the soup course to win the game.

The Sonic Youth Literary Canon Gets a New Entry

The New Yorker 

Thurston Moore, who has a memoir, “Sonic Life,” and is completing a novel, “Parsnip & Boomerang,” visits the Strand and discusses the band’s bookish leanings.

The Secret History of Risotto

The New Yorker 

The dish is governed by a set of laws that are rooted in tradition, rich in common sense, and aching to be broken or bent.

C&EN: "University of Akron proposes cuts to polymer program"

Chemjobber.blogspot.com 

Via C&EN, this grim news (article by Krystal Vasquez): 

Faced with a budget shortfall, the University of Akron (UA) is proposing to merge its department of chemistry; department of chemical, biomolecular, and corrosion engineering; and School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering and to cut up to 15 faculty positions across these disciplines.

If the the Ohio public research institution moves forward with the proposal as is, 10 of the cuts are slated to come from the polymer school... Читать дальше...

Are men okay? Our modern masculinity problem, explained.

Vox 

What’s going on with men? There’s a growing body of evidence that men are falling behind. You can see it in education, in the labor market, and in the data on drug overdoses and deaths by suicide. The fact is, we have an alarming number of lonely, alienated, and disaffected young men in this country. […]