I love this story: a woman just won one of the most badass endurance races around.

The Atlantic has been doing some great work on reproductive justice recently. Here is a thread of women telling their stories about abortions and miscarriages. The takeaway: people are different, their circumstances are different, and women should be able to make ( Read more... )

Best Travel Poster ever. From here, on this epic Metafilter thread about emotional labor.

Best gif ever.

Briallen Hopper's essay about Kate Bolick's Spinster doesn't make me want to read Bolick's book, but it does give me a bunch of other books to read.

Learn to trackstand, which is that thing where a bicyclist stops at a light and doesn't need ( Read more... )

A local photographer found a twenty-year-old archaeology survey, and used it to
locate the sites of former Native American burial grounds.

In other archaeology, and of no doubt great interest to Due South fans, they found one of the ships from the lost Franklin Expedition. And it's worth pointing out that the Inuk knew it all along. (There's a ( Read more... )

Inspired by Sal's question here: Not much changed after Loki won the war.

( Loki knows his way around cat macros )