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I forgot there used to be a Toys R Us at State and Madison!

The letter X will be holding a press conference later today. #TwitterX

It was a delight to talk to the retired St. Louis Fed educator (also named Barb!) who developed this lesson plan: npr.org/2023/07/24/118…

How is your family celebrating Barbenheimer? Alec Nevala-Lee

Not included in my new The Atlantic piece: the time I asked the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB about the Barbie movie

SCOOP: For years, Dan Ariely has suggested that the fabricated data in one of his most famous studies was doctored before he got it. This week, the insurance company he collaborated with came back swinging -- with lots of details: npr.org/2023/07/27/119…

Oh yeah baby Q3/Q4 GDP Growth is going to be 7.5%

I posted this Indicator episode featuring Ben Golub over in Threads too, but of course I will also post here because I am MULTI-HOMING (a term you will learn from this episode!!!) npr.org/2023/08/03/119…

INVENTOR OF THE FUTURE is one of New York Times Books's six recommended new paperbacks this week—and in very good company! (I'm especially pleased to be sharing space with Madeline Ostrander, whose work I've admired for a long time.) nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Parenting in the 2020s is getting an email about authorized snacks for the classroom with this advisory at the bottom: "Please note that many new 'Keto' packaged snacks on the market contain nut flours and should not be brought to school"

My Jobs Friday story is that yesterday I inadvertently terrorized an Edible (Arrangements) employee by asking "When did you rebrand to 'Edible'?" and she looked at me 🦌🚘 and said, "It's my first day."

commissioning an andrea long chu takedown hit piece but on my moral and personal failures

I watched one TikTok poking fun at the scoliosis screenings we used to get in school (remember those?!) and now I'm furiously googling the history of why these tests started in the first place. There goes my morning! ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

all the girls putting on the chiefs/bears game

At dinner Alec Nevala-Lee and I ran into the pastor who married us—haven’t seen him since we actually got married in 2009–and I bellowed at him, “HEY LOOK WE’RE STILL MARRIED!” Also I forgot his name 😳 so thank goodness I could use the honorific and skirt the issue altogether

Breaking news...my 10yo asked me for a Pinterest account. Is Pinterest cool again? She said "It's so aesthetic, Mommy"

The Saw X premiere this weekend is a big event for us Wikipedia horror movie plot summary connossieurs

just waiting for that antihistamine to kick in (and for my kid to get ready for school, instead of texting me from Dad's phone)

oh wowwww I feel so validated thank you Sarah Stankorb slate.com/human-interest…

My obsession with 400 year old goatskin bonds is why I get invited to ALL the cool parties. Thrilled that Wailin Wong and NPR agrees with me about the awesomeness of this financial wonder of the world.