1. Dr. Lisa Gardiner, on her work as an earth scientist and how it makes watching floods in her community invigorating as well as troubling.

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  2. Are you trapped in a Muriel Spark novel? Only one way to find out.

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  3. Byzantine art: just the way normal faces look with eyes in them.

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  4. Pamela is a great book about a terrible thing. How do you read books like that?

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  5. Link Roundup!

    The Toast presents a selection of delightful information in the form of a link roundup.

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  6. Molly talks about not wanting to identify with everything that's bound up in the word "transgendered," and how that's evolved over time.

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  7. Carrie Jewett wants to bury us still further in acronyms, because internet slang is a living and wild creature who needs to be free. Then we added gifs.

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  8. Melissa Breazile on arguing with her dad, and what she's learned from it.

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  9. Janie Porche offers solutions for how to say you're sorry for "going full sir on the ma'am," and how to avoid misgendering people to begin with.

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  10. Link Roundup!

    The Toast presents a selection of delightful information in the form of a link roundup.

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  11. The story of the Velveteen Rabbit.

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  12. Ganondorf has a pretty great breakup playlist.

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  13. The latest installment of our Birds of the Month feature tells us more than we ever dreamed of knowing about the cuckoo.

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  14. I just don't have the time for quests that I used to before I became a mother.

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