Articles by NaOH
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The Classic American Diner (loc.gov)

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The Long Reply (ironicsans.ghost.io)

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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)

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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)

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Playing Santa Does Strange Things to a Man (esquire.com)

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One Last Trip: Traveling with my brother's remains (2022) (thecut.com)

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Italy's longest-serving barista reflects on six decades behind the counter (reuters.com)

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Prove It All Night: With no fame or fortune, what keeps a band onstage? (1999) (chicagoreader.com)

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David Lerner, cofounder of Tekserve, has died (nytimes.com)

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Shanti Rides Shotgun [video] (vimeo.com)

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I've Gone to Look for America: Conversations and Revelations Along Interstate 95 (atavist.com)

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What's the difference between an artist and a creator? (ystrickler.com)

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Historic American Music Released by UCSB Library with Dust-to-Digital Foundation (ucsb.edu)

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The World Needs More Love Letters (moreloveletters.com)

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Why do people, like, say, 'like' so much? (2022) (theguardian.com)

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Sandhill cranes have adopted a Canada gosling (smithsonianmag.com)

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Apple Review #17: Red Delicious Double Feature (terribleminds.com)

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The Chemicals Behind the Colours of Autumn Leaves (2014) (compoundchem.com)

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The Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum (thesaltandpeppershakermuseum.com)

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The Curve of Binding Energy–I (1973) (newyorker.com)

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The product of the railways is the timetable (springbett.substack.com)

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Significant Incidents and Close Calls in Human Spaceflight (nasa.gov)

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Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly (2021) (si.edu)

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Depictions of Celestial Objects Spanning Nearly a Millennium (2014) (publicdomainreview.org)

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Ron DiMenna, Founder of Ron Jon Surf Shop, Has Died (spacecoastdaily.com)

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Drawn in the dock: the story of UK courtroom illustration (2020) (itsnicethat.com)

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Midcentury North American Restaurant Placemats (casualarchivist.substack.com)

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In the Land of Living Skies: Reacquainting ourselves with the night (2022) (harpers.org)

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The Smoker (2023) (theparisreview.org)

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David Walker's Paper Clip Collection (presentandcorrect.com)

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Museum of Color (emergencemagazine.org)

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What brain surgery taught me about the fragile gift of consciousness (bigthink.com)

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Yes, I Texted the Number on the Sign (katebingamanburt.substack.com)

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A Family Project (2022) (bittersoutherner.com)

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David Klein's TWA Posters (2018) (flashbak.com)

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US Navy Ship Names (congress.gov)

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Sky Calendar (abramsplanetarium.org)

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Jen Pawol becomes first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball game (apnews.com)

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Honky-Tonk Tokyo (2020) (afar.com)

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Honesty Boxes in Scotland (2024) (awayfromtheordinary.com)

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What I Learnt from Being Disinherited (daisygoodwin.substack.com)

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Bourdain, My Camera, and Me (2021) (melaniedunea.com)

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Survival at High Altitudes: Wheel-Well Passengers (1996) (bts.gov)

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Most Illinois farmland is not owned by farmers (chicagotribune.com)

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The Eleventh Word (2020) (theparisreview.org)

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Now I Lay Me (1927) (loa.org)

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Jack McAuliffe, craft beer pioneer, has died (allaboutbeer.com)