Call Me Comrade – Miriam Dobson – London Review of Books – During the Cold War, there were groups that encouraged letter writing between American housewives and Soviet women. Interesting look into the ways this changed the letter writers.

Fergus Macintosh, lead fact checker at the New Yorker, interviewed by Merve Emre – Fascinating. I thought I knew in a general sense what a fact checker did, but I didn’t realize the extent. There’s also an exercise in examining a sentence to find all the things that you think should be fact checked in it.

An exercise in creating art in the style of Bill Beckley – celine nguyen – try it yourself!

London’s Low-Traffic Zones Cut Deaths and Injuries by More than a Third – The Guardian – We have a few of these in the city, but they are all in places where traffic would already be low. The only places that drivers will allow them are places where drivers don’t go in the first place, usually neighborhood streets that are not through streets so the only traffic is from the 20 or so homes on the block. The article talks about a similar study of speed limits where it describes 20 mph as a slow, safe speed limit. If I go 17 miles per hour on my bike, someone will complain that it’s dangerous for pedestrians, but 20 in a car is perceived as “safe.”

Now available on Jstor, the digitizied diaries of the only woman, serving as a stewardess, on an 1890s steam ship.

José R. Ralat at Texas Monthly is the world’s only (known) full-time Taco Editor. One of the common questions he gets is how he does the job in Texas without driving.