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I don't have any suggestion off-hand, but I understand your request and actually have been reading so much less the past couple years just to avoid the heightened emotional tones that seem so pervasive. I want to read to learn and understand but I don't need calls to action or tugs on my heartstrings or the sort of smug outrage and moralism that is everywhere -- those come from all the rest of life.

Here are some of the professor's comments in the interview in question (not the one linked in this article), from a year ago, at least this is what I think most likely to be construed by the university as targeting a group of students:

And what the students were able to do is examine video from that protest and identify, I think, three older students. We have a — Columbia has a program. It’s a graduate relationship with older students from other countries, including Israel. And it’s something that many of us were concerned about, because so many of those Israeli students, who then come to the Columbia campus, are coming right out of their military service. And they’ve been known to harass Palestinian and other students on our campus. And it’s something the university has not taken seriously in the past. But we’ve never seen anything like this. And the students were able to identify three of these exchange students, basically, from Israel, who had just come out of military service, who were spraying the pro-Palestinian students with this skunk water. And they were disguised in keffiyehs so that they could mix in with the students who were demanding that the university divest from companies that are supporting the occupation and the war, and were protesting and demanding a ceasefire. So we know who they were.

Ok, thanks for the added context. My point is the same things were said about the Altadena fire when I was in high school nearby, the same year as her first Parable book was published. Fire was not new to the area then, either.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinneloa_Fire

I may be wrong as I haven't read closely, but I don't believe anyone is surprised by these fires. Growing up in the area, fire burned those same areas more than once during my school years. It's chaparral and it is supposed to burn every 10 years or so. But like anytime else it's a big deal when it hits your (or a celebrity) neighborhood vs a couple miles away, and the biggest difference is over the last few decades is that they keep building higher and higher into the mountain, so what used to just be a wildfire is now a neighborhood burning down.

Yes, I have one pair and those are still my go to when I leave the house, but problem for me is the middle distance (computer screen), which was giving me neck pains from unconsciously tilting my head to put it in the right spot. And reading in bed, where having the readers at the bottom portion just doesn't work. So, ended up juggling glasses anyway.

How is the texture? I accidentally sprouted (little tails) lentils once before cooking them in my normal meal-prep dhal, and found that they started out soft like normal cooked lentils, but got tougher and crunchier over the next couple days instead of softer. Did not like. But maybe it's better as a salad?

I'm wondering about this, too, as I've gone from no glasses to distance lenses to, now, three different pairs for different situations and none of them are ever exactly what I need. They're all over the house and never where I need them and just make me angry, worst part of aging (so far). I'm squinting at this right now

Remember that the stories you hear are always going to be the ones that are most controversial, otherwise they would not be news. The day in day out work of the FDA is enormous and most of it, I believe, necessary for the level of trust in what you find on the shelf, what you're doctor recommends, what your pharmacist hands you, that we enjoy.

I don't want to have to know my farmer, my chemical compounder, my importer, my distributor, my restaurant chef, etc, etc, for every stupid thing just to avoid eating lead or feeding hepatitis to my kids.

The loudest complaints-- selling raw milk is technically illegal? they allow red food coloring as long as you list it in the ingredients? they may or may not allow you to call oat liquid a "milk"?-- sound pretty small to me, and also even these issues are reviewed and discussed more or less transparently in response to people's concerns.

That's everywhere, as far as I can tell.

Possibly related:

The pay per flight hour is how much you get paid for every flying hour. Which means from the moment the door of the plane closes before takeoff, to the moment the door opens again at the plane's destination.

Learn more about the crazy world of flight attendant wages here

Oh, yes, I think so. I have one about that size now, and when the cat knocked it off the table last summer the broken twigs were only a few inches long, but they rooted quickly in water and are doing fine in a new pot now.

When they shiver the fanned tail -- crazy