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Each week, a different Vox editor curates their favorite work that Vox has published across text, audio, and video. This week’s recommendations are brought to you by Jorge Just, editorial director, audio for The Gray Area and Unexplainable.
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Each week, a different Vox editor curates their favorite work that Vox has published across text, audio, and video. This week’s recommendations are brought to you by Jorge Just, editorial director, audio for The Gray Area and Unexplainable. |
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Dateline: 3 am, sitting next to my 7-year-old’s bed with a bucket on my knee.
Last Sunday, my wife got influenza A. Yesterday, my 4-year-old tested positive. And tonight, my overly nightlighted oldest kid has served up three big barfs plus 10 or 11 unadorable little puklings, most of which I’ve caught in a bucket. Crucially, I couldn’t catch them all.
It’s really quite something to sit here, the last swimmer in the lifeboat, watching the flu virus circle me like a shark. As my kid finally drifts off to sleep around quarter to 4, I swallow my wife’s next-to-last Tamiflu capsule and think to myself, JQ was right: We should buy new soap.
I hope your weekend is going way better than mine. —Jorge Just, editorial director, audio for The Gray Area and Unexplainable
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Why everyone has a gnarly stomach bug right now, explained in one chart
This article, by Keren Landman, starts with a sentence that makes me want to cry “You’re not imagining it: An unusually large number of Americans are barfing these days.” Yeah … I know. After you read it, give yourself a dispiriting little prize: take a peek at the SEO keywords our audience development team has tacked on to the end of the article’s url. What a bummer! |
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What homeowners and renters need to know after a wildfire
Allie Volpe comes through with some serious service journalism. It’s incredibly sad to say but if you don’t personally know someone who’s going to need this information, then you know somebody who knows someone who does. It won’t answer every question — how could it? — but when it’ll give whomever needs it a place to start. Share it. Two Down to Earth stories: a 3-inch fish, and a newt’s Rumspringa
In “Why does Trump hate this tiny fish so much?”, Benji Jones does a deep dive on why a tiny fish has suddenly been turned into political chum. The fact that this fish’s name, the Delta Smelt, kinda sounds like a euphemism for passing gas is only one of the reasons I chose this article. Another is the sentence “The Delta Smelt is a red herring.” Before your eyes take that long lonely journey onto the next paragraph, please click on “Are we living through the end of wildlife migrations?” by Christine Peterson. This article about animal migration will take you on a journey. It starts with the image of armies of squirrels 150 miles long and ends with — I promise you’ll like this — the words “It’s not too late.”
🎧 We’re a nation divided. And we need to start listening.
More specifically, we need to start listening to podcasts. Here is one excellent episode each from all four of the podcasts I worked on in 2024. You don’t need descriptions, you just need to want it. And by “it,” I mean to sit there passively listening to very smart people say cool stuff. I’ve included direct links to the episodes so you can click on the episode title and start listening right away:
(The last one is a free sample of our member-exclusive podcast — if you want more, join today.)
Swashbuckling adventure novels to start your year
In this month’s Ask a Book Critic, Constance Grady recommends “trippy detective novels for when you just miss Twin Peaks.” It’s been five days since she published them, and I really, really miss Twin Peaks. When my forlorn wife heard the news that Twin Peaks creator David Lynch had died, someone whose creativity and sense of darkness and absurdity has influenced her since adolescence, she came over to my desk and just hugged me for about two minutes. As my wife and I stood together in silence, contemplating art and mortality, I couldn’t help but think, “Step back, lady … you have the flu.”
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