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This Is Why You Can't Get ADHD Treatment Musician / Investigative Documentarian Benn Jordan breaks down the core reasons for the USA's ADHD medication shortage, the hassle of trying to solve it yourself, why it's so profitable for so many drug companies, the scams that have popped up in response, and the dangers of seeking treatment via the dark web.

a Rotterdam Apartment That's Only 74 Square Feet. Two architects in the Netherlands made the most of the tiniest of spaces, "maximizing absolutely everything." Julie Lasky for the NYT

We live in a time when intensity serves as a stand-in for virtue and the hardness of conviction is valued over the fuzziness of nuance. (slTOLife)If you are a MeFite in a major city, I am sure you are aware of these wellness places! These just happen to be in Toronto...and NYC.

Lewis Mallard is an "interdimensional psychedelic folk artist" who appears in public only in a mallard costume. He is behind public art installations in Hamilton (CBC), Victoria (Instagram), and most recently Toronto (CityNews).Lewis recently sat down for an interview with the host of the 3 Books podcast. The artist's official site and Instagram.

Danny Jansen will be the first baseball player to play for both teams in the same game. Eric Money is the only NBA player to have scored for two teams in one game, although there were others that played for both sides. I can't find any evidence that this has happened in the NFL or NHL, but would love to know if it has.

One reporter wipes away the mystery to reveal the truth, rolled up in a very thorough article that seeks to answer: Why toilet paper keeps getting smaller and smaller

Conventional wisdom about heat islands — urban areas that are hotter than nearby rural areas because of the way the built environment absorbs and reemits heat from the sun — suggests that cities work to restore parks, trees and vegetation to keep things cool. But scientists and urban planners have found that another approach is even more beneficial to Dhaka's predicament: conserving wetlands [mongabay]urban...

"A burglar who broke into an apartment in Rome on Tuesday night was arrested after stopping in the middle of the robbery to read a book about Greek mythology."

Pessimists Archive is a project to jog our collective memories about the hysteria, technophobia and moral panic that often greets new technologies, ideas and trends.A few examples: When the Surgeon General Warned About Pac-Man The New York Times Banned Word Games Before Embracing Them The Forgotten War on Beepers When the Mac 'Ruined' Writing Remember Typewriter Licenses? A Warning About AI from 1863 (!)...

Werribee Zoo welcomes birth of male rhino calf, who already has the zoomies. Victoria's Werribee Open Range Zoo has welcomed the birth of a male southern white rhino, more than a year after the passing of a female calf.

A recent post on Metatalk discusses posts about birds. Ergo, have you seen, heard, or encountered any comment-worthy birds (keep it clean) recently or in the past? Perhaps hopping or waddling birds, birds which say "pew", some clever magpies, some parakeets, a lovely pair of boobies or just any birds ... Or write about whatever is on your mind, in your heart, on your...

Among corporate America's most persistent shareholder activists are 80 nuns in a monastery outside Kansas City. [The Associated Press]The Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica rebut Harrison Butker as no one else could [Kansas City Star]

To Anyone Who Ever Asks is a widely lauded biography by Howard Fishman of musician Connie Converse, which came out last year. Not everyone liked it, with dissenting voices including her nephew and Joyce Kittenplan on her Substack The Ambiguities [archive link]. Inspired by these reviews, and their own frustrations with the biography, folklorists and musicians Sophie Abramowitz, Sarah Bachman and Emily Hilliard started...

A nearly two-decade study of birds living in Melbourne's Albert Park has revealed surprising relationship patterns between black swans.

It sits in one of the planet's newest landscapes, the Gen X-era crater of Mount St. Helens, born out of the mountain's May 18, 1980, eruption. Although the cataclysm beheaded the summit and wiped out 70% of the volcano's glaciers, it also created an unexpectedly ideal location (high, steep surrounding walls that reduce sunlight and generate abundant rockfalls and avalanches, and decent annual snow...

Telegram messaging app CEO arrested in France (Al Jazeera, NYT gift, Le Monde, France 24, BBC, Guardian) French investigators had issued a warrant for Durov's arrest as part of an inquiry into allegations of fraud, drug trafficking, organised crime, promotion of terrorism and cyberbullying. Russia's embassy in France has demanded consular access to the 39-year-old Franco-Russian billionaire.

"19th century French printmaker and painter Adolphe Appian trained at a small specialized art school in his home town of Lyon, and worked for a time as a graphic designer." This is a recent post from Charley Parker's excellent Lines and Colors blog. I receive it via RSS, and the entries are always a pleasure. They have introduced me to more interesting-but-not-especially-famous artists than...

You could call it a situationist spectacle, a piece of rolling performance art or a collective satire [guardian]situationism spectacular [wiki2]

I had spent countless nights in the woods consciously and subconsciously adjusting my relationship to danger: preparing for it, tempering it, overthinking it, underthinking it, ignoring it. But no matter how desensitized we had become, the more time spent in the woods, the more of a numbers game you play with injury, weather, wildlife, exposure. Just because you don't recognize the danger, it doesn't...

Dr Angela Collier, a Star Trek fan, eviscerates 'Star Trek: Picard' over the course of nearly 4 hours, which is a long run-time but it seems to fly by much faster and in a more entertaining way, than an episode of the aforementioned 'Picard' - How Star Trek: Picard Ruins Star Trek. Dr Collier has created a stellar catalog of informative (and much shorter)...

"Jesus himself did it," he said. "Nobody killed anybody. I did nothing." Alexis Okeowo investigates the story of Paul Mackenzie, a Kenyan religious leader charged with the deaths of more then 400 people. (SLNY) (cw: mass murder, bodily suffering, cruelty to children, sexual violence)

It's Not Too Late: A Lifetime Measured by Jeff Buckley's "Grace." August 15th, 1994 marked the debut of singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley's only full studio album. 30 years on, Olivia Abercrombie talks of the influence of that album on her life.Speaking for myself, and only myself, Jeff Buckley's death was my Significant Alternative Music Death. His passing came on the heels of a femicide my...

The first woman to make her living from painting captured herself and other women in the ways they wished to be perceived. Ed Simon for Hyperallergic (Editorial comment: the Cassat of late 1500s Bologna).