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📗 REVIEW: Mailman by Stephen Starring Grant (opens the original)
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I don’t remember where I first heard about Mailman: My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home (affiliate link!), but I liked it. It was indeed a pretty wild ride, although I went in not knowing much more than the title and there ended up being more bureacuratic analysis than I was expecting. I didn’t, for example, realize that the author had a prior white collar career or that the book took place during the Covid years. If I had, I might not have read it (I don’t pa
🎓 On the Harem Origin Story of Turkish Coffee Reading (opens the original)
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A friend recently pinged me about a claim about Turkish coffee reading that has been making the rounds (most recently as a TIL post). Supposedly, kahve falı, the practice of flipping your drained cup onto the saucer and reading the dried grounds, began in the Ottoman harem about five hundred years ago. The idea is that it offers women a licensed way to gossip, vent, and raise taboo subjects without consequences.I’ve written before about how harem women were political actors, and that rituals whi
🎓 On Mammals With the Social Structure of Ants (opens the original)
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Back in May1, I went to the Smithsonian National Zoo in DC with my husband, kids, and a family friend. It was a great experience, but my favorite part was seeing the naked mole rats. Naked mole rats are one of my top ten favorite animals, and when told this to my friend, it turned out the only thing she knew about them was the bits that show up in that Kim Possible cartoon.I love them not because they’re small and ugly cute but because they’re eusocial, which means they have a “queen-based” repr
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