Week 17 (2021)

the night sky & bereavement leave, good parties & dying, mom genes & defeating vultures

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to read: essays, articles

• The Dark Side — David Owen, The New Yorker — “Today, a person standing on the observation deck of the Empire State Building on a cloudless night would be unable to discern much more than the moon, the brighter planets, and a handful of very bright stars—less than one per cent of…