Truth and beauty bombs

Things to be used as metaphors later, often here.

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Windsor Castle: Changing hundreds of royal clocks

When the clocks went back, the horological conservator at the royal castle changed 400 clocks by hand.

Clock logistics. 

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Rat That Sniffs Out Land Mines Receives Award for Bravery

Magawa, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat, was recognized with a prestigious honor for his work detecting mines and explosives in Cambodia.

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Patricia Lockwood · Diary: Insane after coronavirus? · LRB 16 July 2020

My mind had moved a few inches to the left of its usual place, and I developed what I realised later were actual...

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What Happened to Val Kilmer? He’s Just Starting to Figure It Out.

Cancer has taken his voice, but the unlikeliest movie star in Hollywood history still has a lot he wants to say.

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Was Jeanne Calment the Oldest Person Who Ever Lived—or a Fraud?

Some researchers have cast doubt on the record of the celebrated supercentenarian.

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The Secret Oil Patch Roots of ‘Summer Breeze’

The incredible true story of two brothers raised on the hardscrabble country music of rural West Texas who dropped out, tuned in, found God, and helped launch the seventies soft-rock revolution.

Texas Monthly is killing it lately.

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The Bizarre Fight Over a Wealthy Biochemist’s Frozen Head Keeps Getting Weirder

Vast riches and a lifelong obsession with fringe technology are threatening to tear a family apart.

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The Disease of Deceit

Friends don’t let friends lie about having cancer.

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The Dognapping of the Century

When a ring of thieves steals a poet’s beloved dog, one of the world’s most famous women must break her long domestic oppression and…

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What Scientists Learned by Putting 3-D Glasses on Cuttlefish

They perceive depth in a very different way than we do.

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Joan Cusack Has a Tchotchke Shop of Her Own

Judy Maxwell Home pays homage to a Barbra Streisand character and the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi.

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The Rise and Fall of an All-Star Crew of Jewel Thieves

They were highly sophisticated. The local police seemed helpless. Then a retired septuagenarian detective stepped in.

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What Shattered My Mother’s Mind

Winston Ross recalls the heartbreaking ordeal his family endured after his mother’s routine surgery led to post-operative delirium.

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Margaret Atwood on the Decade The Handmaid’s Tale Came to Life

Her novels speculated about lab-grown meat, environmental catastrophe, and the diminishment of reproductive autonomy. Does anything shock her anymore?

My new life goal is definitely to have Margaret Atwood read my palm.

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My Brown Dad Voted for Trump

Anjoli Roy struggles to understand the conservative father she dearly loves.

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Devon Sawa Answers Every Question We Have About Now and Then

And Christina Ricci, and that butt scene, and the sexual awakening of an entire generation.

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Elizabeth "Lizzie" Magie, Inventor of Monopoly

In 1904, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Magie designed a board game to demonstrate the tragic effects of land-grabbing. She named her grim reflection of life The Landlords’ Game, but you probably know it better as Monopoly.