A big, big love to whoever wrote this The New York Times headline today

I just finished reading your story, Dwayne Betts. Spectacularly written and so important. Congratulations on all the amazing things you've accomplished since I last saw you during your Atlantic internship!

My distaste for Julian Assange and my love for his cat are causing some serious cognitive dissonance. instagram.com/embassycat/

I loved getting to edit this - it's the previously unpublished diary of a Polish-Jewish teenager who was killed by the Nazis. She was an amazing writer, a really different voice and story from Anne Frank's. Her boyfriend tried to save her and wrote the final entries.

This essay by the novelist Dara Horn is jaw-droppingly powerful. She creates a vivid alternative reality - an adult Anne Frank who survived the camps and went on to be a very different writer than any of us would've imagined.

Aww, Kepler is struggling! That whole mission has been so cool, right down to the fake vintage travel posters for other Earth-like planets.

Somehow, whenever I'm editing articles about important topics like curing blindness, there's always a part of the fact-checking process where I need to watch videos of things like Pee-wee Herman dancing with dogs.

Chaperoning a second grade field trip to the Newseum. Of course, after reading these instructions, all I want to do is go to the FBI section.

"Outrage and negativity are the most 'engaging,' and so that’s what we’re fed [on social media]." So true. It's hard to imagine that just liking other people will be enough to bridge the worst divides we're dealing with now. But if that won't work, I'm not sure if anything will.

My amazing friend and former coworker Rebecca Frankel wrote a book about canine war heroes - and then brought one home to live with her. Here's her dramatic, heartwarming story about Dyngo the dog, complete with adorable pictures. smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/s…

Thanks to JennieGritz, for giving me my first American cover-byline for “The Counterfeit Queen of Soul” smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/c…

I'm honored to be this editor friend. And I totally stand by this relationship advice. (Love you, @Schrumza!)

“What we’re looking for is individual difference in elephants—more or less, personality." (Sateesh Venkatesh) Really enjoyed writing this article for Smithsonian Magazine's 50th anniversary issue! smithsonianmag.com/science-nature…

I love seeing people praise my friends - but not because their jobs got cut in pandemic-related layoffs! :-(

Congrats to David Lynch, winner of the Smithsonian Magazine American Ingenuity Award for Education smithsonianmag.com/innovation/pea… #IngenuityAwards

The awesome @Elmo_Keep dives deeply into the topics of aging, immortality, and scientists with long wizard beards. po.st/y7Zh14

Wakes up. Checks Twitter. . . . Uh... . . . 📈 Lookups fo... . . . Regrets checking Twitter. Goes back to bed.

And there they go. Lee and Jackson sailing through air onto flatbed truck in Baltimore at 3:40 AM. An amazing sight.

imagine a world where donald trump denounced neo-nazis instead of journalists washingtonpost.com/amphtml/blogs/…

Lin-Manuel Miranda's social studies teachers must feel pretty good about themselves. x.com/Lin_Manuel/sta…