The links are all over the place thematically this week - we have wedgie fit jeans and a bombing in Aleppo. Sorry for the potpurri but feel free to click on the links in a strategic order that results in the least amount of emotional whiplash for you.
Forgive me if I posted this a few weeks ago when I intended to (but I don't think I did): a bulldozer battle on the streets of China, set to that weird fighting music from Star Trek. [HT Blair]
"So it turns out that kangaroos are what nightmares are made of." I MEAN.
Utah's first dual-language immersion students are getting ready to go to college!
The trouble with renting a womb. I found this article to be much more nuanced than the recent Radiolab story on the same subject. (I really didn't like that episode.)
Five things every pregnant woman should avoid. I wholeheartedly agree with this list (brought to you by the woman behind It's Like They Know Us).
A few miles from San Bernadino, a Muslim prom queen reigns.
Alexandra Petri was on fire (for me) this week - Hamilton and the end of irony; and Trump will be the GOP nominee. Nothing is on fire. This is fine. (I laughed sooooo hard reading that one.) HT Liz and Andrew
These new bleach ads are indeed terrifying (language warning toward the end, if you can read it through your tears of laughter).
One week in April, four toddlers shot and killed themselves. Excellent reporting on a horrible problem.
Also amazing reporting: this article about the struggle to maintain significant weight loss and how it's almost impossible because SCIENCE.
I have THOUGHTS about Levi's new Wedgie Fit Jeans: a whole new way for women to be uncomfortable in clothes. :( :( :(
Here is CCTV footage of that hospital in Aleppo when it was bombed.