The remarkable, and oft invisible, influence of the LGBTQ+ community on the United States.
Author Archives: Carlen
The Weekly Bulletin: January 20, 2022
The Non-fiction Feature: A Queer History of the United States;
The Memoir & Poetry Spot: Night Sky with Exit Wounds;
The Product Spot: Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index.
Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index
Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index is the national benchmarking tool on corporate policies, practices and benefits pertinent to LGBTQ+ employees.
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
A raw, luminous work of poetry about queerness, being a foreigner, and searching for love.
The Weekly Bulletin: January 13, 2022
The Non-fiction Feature: The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine;
The Fiction Spot: The Jungle;
The Product Spot: Winix Air Purifier.
Winix Air Purifier
Breathe again, without allergens, with this air purifier.
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
How Joseph Lister and his use of antiseptics revolutionized the frightening state of 19th-century medicine.
The Jungle
One of the most impactful novels in US history—its descriptions of the meatpacking industry’s disgusting sanitary conditions resulted in the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t
The unusual and often unseen powers of predictive statistics, and how they mold our lives and actions.
It’s Probably Penny
A short primer on the basics of probability, for young children.