Articles by NaOH
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Staying Awake (2008) (harpers.org)

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How H-E-B Became Texas' Most Beloved Brand (2024) (texashighways.com)

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Ancient Tablets Show Markets Worked 4k Years Before Economists Explained Them (thedailyeconomy.org)

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Eyewitness at the Triangle (1911) (cornell.edu)

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Two Roads Through Two Chinatowns (sundaylongread.com)

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The Next Generation of American Cheese (2023) (eater.com)

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NOLA 'Nacular: One man's crusade to preserve New Orleans's vernacular signage (countryroadsmagazine.com)

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Heikki's Garden of Flowers, a catalogue of pictorial letterpress works (heikkilotvonen.com)

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Leave It to Beaver: Everything is bigger at Buc-ee's (thebaffler.com)

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How Much Stuff Do You Own? (inconspicuous.info)

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Honeypot Design (bruceediger.com)

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Fudgetown, USA (2024) (tastecooking.com)

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Who's the smartest corvid? (thetyee.ca)

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'They take you out of life, out of time': a journey into Spain's cave paintings (theguardian.com)

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The spelling error made 200B times a day (2025) (nbailey.ca)

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Tribute to Jiro Yamada, Automotive Artist (1960-2025) [video] (youtube.com)

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Colorado bill gives artists creative control, enables A-Corps, LLCs for artists (cpr.org)

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At the Autograph Show (oldster.substack.com)

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Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025) (thedial.world)

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The History of "Prisencolinensinainciusol" (dirkdeklein.net)

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Singaporean turns disposable chopsticks into furniture (2022) (channelnewsasia.com)

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The rise and fall of the only female Yakuza (theguardian.com)

4

Plein Air – A painting for wherever you are (joonas.wtf)

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Toshifumi Suzuki, 7-Eleven Japan founder, has died (cnn.com)

5

A history of obituaries in American newspapers (loc.gov)

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Judson's Last Ride (realclearpolitics.com)

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LiLou the Pig: World's 1st Airport Therapy Pig (lilouthepig.com)

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Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah (milwaukeemag.com)

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Everyone Against Us (2023) (chicagomag.com)

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Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation (sundaylongread.com)

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Consider the Sister (thesmallbow.com)

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Budapest's Bauhaus and Art Deco Staircases (2013) (behance.net)

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Sam Sianis, Chicago's most famous saloonkeeper, has died (chicagotribune.com)

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The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018) (stanford.edu)

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Trevor Howsam Limited: 19th- and 20th-Century Props and Wallpaper (trevorhowsam.com)

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The Founding Story Behind the House of Suntory (townandcountrymag.com)

9

Up in Smoke (thebaffler.com)

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Chasing Chicago's movable bridges (2014) (aresluna.org)

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Aircraft: The Jet as Art (jeffreymilstein.com)

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Tools in the Grass: Raising the next generation of crafts person (popularwoodworking.com)

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Past Ferrari Models, 1947–2023 (ferrari.com)

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World's biggest RC A380 [video] (youtube.com)

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Historic Tennessee hotel is also home to the greatest duck tradition (2016) (audubon.org)

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The Classic American Diner (loc.gov)

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The Long Reply (ironicsans.ghost.io)

3

The Peoples of America (palladiummag.com)

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The Man Who Stayed [video] (ordinarylifeextraordinarygod.org)

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What Growing Up Poor Taught Me (rattle.com)

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US Route 66 Marks 100 Years: Cruising America's Main Street (apnews.com)

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Art of the Luggage Label (flickr.com)

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The best seat in town (torched.la)

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Flashback to a time when government reports were works of art (chicagotribune.com)

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Camels, sailboats and poultry trucks: One man's no-fly journey around the world (cnn.com)

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The Largest Rock Paper Scissors League (rockpaperscissorsonline.com)

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Newsroom Vault, 1940s–2020s (newsroomvault.com)

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Only 8% of Barcelona's 4,589 streets are named after women (only8.org)

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Income percent for all food, food at home and food not at home, 1960-2019 (2020) (usda.gov)

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Kyushu Railway Company Train Varieties (jrkyushu.co.jp)

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Chicago artist creates tourism posters for city's neighborhoods (chicagotribune.com)

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StationeryObject (stationeryobject.com)

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The Story of Marina Abramovic and Ulay (2020) (sydney-yaeko.com)

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The pleasures of poor product design (inconspicuous.info)

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Last love: a romance in a care home (2023) (theguardian.com)

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Cookie jars capture American kitsch (2023) (eater.com)

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Chasing the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (2023) (gardenandgun.com)

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Worldwide Sidewalk Joy: Adding whimsy to neighborhoods (worldwidesidewalkjoy.com)

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What happens after you die? (2016) (lamag.com)

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On Being a Dad (derekthompson.org)

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Are You Noticing This? (ryanholiday.net)

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SHELL: Global Tool for Calling and Chaining Procedures in the System (1965) [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)

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Éliane Radigue has died at 94 (cdm.link)

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I baked a pie every day for a year (theguardian.com)

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Japanese Death Poems (secretorum.life)

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Tracing Chinese Immigration Through Food (2023) (sundaylongread.com)

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A Love Letter to Public Libraries (2024) (34st.com)

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20 Years Ago I Bought a Tank of Gas in Mississippi and Decided to Draw It (katebingamanburt.substack.com)

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San Francisco's 24-Hour Diner Stops the Cosmic Clock (2023) (altaonline.com)

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This is What It's Like to Spend Your Life in Prison (2023) [video] (youtube.com)

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Assistant to the Regional Manager (paulbloom.net)

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In praise of the dad joke (2023) (wit.substack.com)

2

Quitting (thepointmag.com)

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The Science of the Perfect Second (2023) (harpers.org)

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On Reading My Memoir to My Father (2022) (lithub.com)

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Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105 (theguardian.com)

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The paper model houses of Peter Fritz (2013) (socks-studio.com)

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International Collection of Tongue Twisters (2018) (tongue-twister.net)

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“Let people help” – Advice that made a big difference to a grieving widow (npr.org)

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Typography on Pencils (2023) (presentandcorrect.com)

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How to bury your father (2025) (buttondown.com/monteiro)

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Renfrew Christie has died, sabotaged South Africa's nuclear program (nytimes.com)

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Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It (boltsmag.org)

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James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies (fordauthority.com)

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Betty Reid Soskin, oldest-ever US national park ranger, has died (latimes.com)

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How Willie Nelson sees America (newyorker.com)

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The existential balm of seeing yourself as a verb, not a noun (psyche.co)

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The Coffee Warehouse (scopeofwork.net)

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Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (strongtowns.org)

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The Bob Dylan concert for just one person (flaggingdown.com)

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The Worm Hunters of Southern Ontario (thelocal.to)

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln Collection of Astronomy Simulations & Animations (unl.edu)