Dry Cherries & Communal Beds — sciencemilk.design

Greetings, fellow humans! I submit the following for your consideration:

The life of a commercial pilot hired to dry cherries.
A brief history of the communal bed.

… and if we have time we can loop back to those precocious Japanese children running errands for their parents. Since I posted the first article last week someone has also written an opinion piece about how pathetic US children seem by comparison.

And, finally, during last week’s conversation I promised to post links to

A podcast episode about the time-consuming process of “finding” (or maybe creating) new and delicious apple varieties. It’s a 13-minute listen and there’s a written transcript as well.
A New York Times article about Doba. I’m linking to an audio version of the story, where you can find the printed one as well.