American Consequences - May 2019

LITERARY INSIGHT from PRESENT & PAST " WHATWE’RE READING You can’t please all people all of the time, but we are living in a food culture that has taken a dramatic shift towards the personal... With access to new cuisines – not to mention food-delivery apps – consumers have become both specific and bold in their food requests. For Your Mouth Only: Welcome to the Era of Personalized Food 1843

What’s behind the obsession of capturing extreme risk-taking that’s causing people to die? Selfie Deaths Are an Epidemic Outside An interviewwith a courtroom artist who has attended and illustrated some of New York’s City’s most high-profile trials of the past 45 years. Murder, She Drew Topic A masked figure looms over your recumbent body, wielding power tools and sharp metal instruments, doing things to your mouth you cannot see, asking you questions you cannot properly answer, and judging you all the while. The Truth About Dentistry The Atlantic The sheer amount of time Americans spend at work, and the relationships they form there, stamp their identities, and leaving that routine can be a profound shock. This is a series of interviews about being fired, Scientists captured a picture of a black hole for the first time last month... But in order to see it, they had to use some old-fashioned approaches (think hard drives and FedEx). The Hidden Shipping and Handling Behind That Black-Hole Picture The Atlantic

In 2019, there’s no denying that the flashy guitar-breakout moment, one of the most prominent and primal components of rock & roll, is an increasingly endangered species. Unplugged: Is the Guitar Solo Finished? Rolling Stone Obesity has always been with us, but it’s never been so common. Why hasn’t a cure been discovered? Why AreWe Still So Fat? The New York Times

retired, aged out, and laid off. Exit Interview The Guardian

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