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The Innovation That’s Killing Restaurant Culture Delivery has turned America into a nation of order-inners.

More than half of adults under 45 use delivery at least once a week, and 13 percent use it once a day. I wrote about what that means for restaurants, restaurateurs, cities, and food: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

How Delivery Destroyed American Restaurants We’ve become a nation of order-inners. Eating will never be the same.

I wrote about what food delivery has done to restaurants … it’s not good …. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

59. Season Finale, RIP and LGM

last episode of our mets podcast for the season! miss you already <3 open.spotify.com/episode/4Yef...

I went to the Tesla Diner! It bummed me out

www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Turns Out Meat Is Still the Ultimate Luxury After four years of vegan cuisine, the fine-dining stalwart Eleven Madison Park is cooking animals again.

Eleven Madison Park, once named the world’s best restaurant, is no longer vegan—a sign of how Americans can’t quit meat, and of fine-dining hubris, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

Has Air Travel Ever Been Good? Not really.

Transporting human bodies through the air at hundreds of miles an hour has always been somewhat unpleasant, @elcush.bsky.social writes in Time-Travel Thursdays.

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

50. The TRUTH About the New York Mets Hits Different · Episode

new york's only baseball podcast turns 50 :)

open.spotify.com/episode/4ca1...

Cancel Amazon Prime The subscription service is Amazon’s greatest—and most terrifying—invention.

classic @elcush.bsky.social on Prime Day:

"The holiday was invented by a corporation in honor of itself, to enrich itself. It has existed for six years and is observed by tens of millions of people worldwide. I hope you are spending it with your loved ones."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

some example questions to get you going: What's wrong with John Fisher? How did you two get so smart and fun? Why is Pete Alonso so strong? How many people could he carry out of a burning building? And so on and so forth

My Father Prosecuted History’s Crimes. Then He Died in One.

what a big-hearted, big-brained, brave, searching, humane, lucid story by @bernstein.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/m...

The Absurdity—And Genius—of the Mother’s Day Opt-Out Email This is what happens when brands try to be your friend.

More brands have been offering the choice to opt out of Mother’s Day marketing emails. The trend is kind of brilliant—and also patently absurd, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Perfect Pop Star for a Dumb Stunt Katy Perry is exactly the kind of celebrity to go to space.

Space tourism is, at best, folly—silly, spectacularly wasteful, pointless by definition. And Katy Perry was the perfect celebrity to do it, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

🄷🄾🅁🄼🄱🄻🄴🅂 🄲🄷🄾🅁🄼🄱🄻🄴🅂

thinking about this diva www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

The Absolutely, Positively Correct Way to Load Your Dishwasher The internet is filled with advice. So why are people still arguing about this?

The internet is filled with dishwasher-loading advice. So why are so many people still arguing about how to do it right? @elcush.bsky.social investigates:

Americans Will Never Quit Soda Poppi and its “health-conscious” ilk are just new versions of the same old thing.

wrote-a about soda www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

37. [Brandon Nimmo Tongue-Out Emoji] Mets Are Back! Hits Different · Episode

new york's only anti-math baseball podcast is back for seaosn 2, baby!

open.spotify.com/episode/5Vuz...

Why Aren’t Women Allowed to Play Baseball? Women have always loved America’s pastime. It has never loved them back.

kaitlyn went to baseball camp www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Great Salt Shake-Up Why has kosher salt replaced table salt in American pantries?

Kosher salt is just big salt, @elcush.bsky.social writes. How did it become so popular?

mTORC1 activation drives astrocyte reactivity in cortical tubers and brain organoid models of TSC Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) is a genetic neurodevelopmental disorder associated with early onset epilepsy, intellectual disability and neuropsychiatric disorders. A hallmark of the disorder is co...

Excited (again) to see this paper finally in (pre)print!

We did single-cell sequencing on our TSC model organoids and observed strong signatures of reactive astrogliosis (neat)- then we looked at resected patient brain tissue and saw the same thing! (More neat!)

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Erasing of American Science How far can the Trump administration bend U.S. research before it breaks?

Read this one by the great @katherinejwu.com www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Americans Need to Party More We’re not doing it as much as we used to. You can be the change we need.

important please read www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

the people who made this happen changed lives and I am unbelievably grateful for them :)

The Luxury Makeover of the Worst Pastry on Earth How panettone, the once-reviled Italian Christmas treat, became a high-end commodity

i love to ask the big questions like: is panettone .... good? www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

come on king

lol

Move Thanksgiving to October A modest proposal for fixing the back-to-back-holiday crunch

I am honored and proud to be launching my 2028 campaign with a bold proposal for a better America www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Get Ready for Higher Food Prices Trump vowed to lower food prices. His policies will almost certainly do the opposite.

a wild thing i learned reporting this story is that about 2/3 of our apple juice comes from China

www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

RIP