This page lists all of the readings that have been shared on the LetsTalkLibrary. To sort the selections by theme, genre, or medium, click on “FILTERS” in the menu at the top of the page.
| Simge Andı. How and Why Do Consumers Access News on Social Media? Reuters Institute. Argument, Report. Pop Culture, What’s News? Image. | |
| Andscape/Getty Images. The Realities of WBNA Stars Who Play Abroad. Andscape. Report. Sports. Image, Text. | |
| Janice Gassam Asare. How Hair Discrimination Affects Black Women at Work. Harvard Business Review. Argument. Diversities. Text. | |
| Kwame Anthony Appiah. The Case for Capitalizing the B in Black. The Atlantic. Argument. Language. Text. | |
| Associated Press. The Bootleg Fire, the Nation’s Biggest, Gives Scientists an Unexpected Experiment. NPR. Report. Nature. Text. | |
| Meghan Bartels. Surprising Creatures Lurk in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Scientific American. Report. Nature. Text. | |
| Alan Blinder. Did Usher Write His Own Commencement Speech? (Yeah!) The New York Times. Analysis, Narrative. Pop Culture. Image, Text, Video. | |
| Joy Buolamwini. AI, Ain’t I A Woman? YouTube. Argument. Diversities. Image, Video. | |
| Sue Burke. Trees of Knowledge. Slate. Report. Nature. Text. | |
| Deborah Cameron. Women of Letters. Language: A Feminist Guide. Analysis. Language. Text. | |
| Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos. Baldo Cartoon: Text Punctuation. GoComics. Argument. Language, Pop Culture. Image. | |
| Nicholas Carr. How to Fix Social Media. New Atlantis. Argument. Pop Culture, What’s News? Text. | |
| Carvana. Car Vending Machine. YouTube. Argument. The New Normal. Video. | |
| Shraddha Chakradhar. A New Report Shows the Impact of Racial Justice Protests in 2020 on Three Local Newspapers. Nieman Lab. Report. Language, What’s News? Text. | |
| Roz Chast. A Cartoon. Instagram. November 24, 2024. Argument. Language. Image. | |
| Kyle Chayka. A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts. The New Yorker. Analysis, Argument, Report. Diversities, Language. Text. | |
| Buse Coldas. I Feel So Ugly without My Makeup On. The Johns Hopkins Newsletter. Analysis, Narration. Pop Culture. Text | |
| Chloe Coleman. Don’t Look Away: Photojournalists Are Documenting the Brutality of Russia’s War in Ukraine. Nieman Lab. Argument. What’s News? Text. | |
| Gemma Correll. Just Girly Things. The Nib. Argument, Report. Pop Culture, Diversities. Image, Text. | |
| Nicholas Creel. What I Learned as a Liberal Faculty Adviser for a Turning Point USA Chapter. The New York Times. Analysis, Argument, Narrative. Diversities. Text. | |
| Renée DiResta. How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks of Birds. Noema. Analysis. Pop Culture, Nature, What’s News? Text. | |
| Drum Battles. Drumline Battle | Army vs Air Force (Who Won?). YouTube. Argument. Sports. Video. | |
| Jamie Ducharme. The “Great Resignation” Is Finally Getting Companies to Take Burnout Seriously. Is It Enough? TIME. Argument, Analysis. The New Normal. Text. | |
| Emojipedia. Emoji Statistics. Emojipedia. Report. Language, Pop Culture. Image, Text. | |
| Sarah Enelow-Snyder. How We Tell Stories in Texas. The Bitter Southerner. Argument, Narrative. Diversities. Text. | |
| Ron Finley. A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA. TED Talk. Narrative, Argument. Nature. Video. | |
| Caitlin Gibson. Blowing Out Candles Is Basically Spitting on Your Friends’ Cake. Will We Ever Do It Again? The Washington Post. Report. The New Normal. Text. | |
| Demetria Glace. Why Are All Action Heroes Named Jack, James, or John? Slate. Analysis. Language, Pop Culture. Text. | |
| Harold Goldberg. Astro Bot Review: All History Lessons Should Be This Fun. The New York Times. Review, Analysis. Pop Culture. Text. | |
| Maria Guardado. “Qué lo qué, papi”: Giants Bridge Cultural Gaps with Spanish Classes. MLB.com. Report. Language, Sports. Text. | |
| Joe Hanson. Why Is Blue So Rare in Nature? YouTube. Analysis, Report. Nature. Video. | |
| Virginia Heffernan. Metaphors Matter in a Time of Pandemic. Wired. Argument. Language, The New Normal. Text. | |
| Lauren Holiday. I’ve Stayed Silent for Way Too Long. The Players’ Tribune. Narrative. Diversities. Text. | |
| Wendy Ide. Wicked Review—Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande Make the Magic Happen. The Guardian. Review. Pop Culture. Text | |
| Mike Isaac. For Political Cartoonists, the Irony Was That Facebook Didn’t Recognize Irony. The New York Times. Analysis, Report. Language. Text. | |
| Patrik Jonsson. Goin’ Bananas: How a Minor League Team Got More Followers Than the Yankees. Christian Science Monitor. Report. Sports, Pop Culture. Text. | |
| Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan Eulogy for Kobe Bryant (excerpt). Youtube. Narrative. Sports. Video. | |
| Joshua Kim. Amazon’s Warehouses, Bezos’s Worldview, and Elite Higher Education. Inside Higher Education. Argument. Diversities. Text. | |
| Will Knight. What Really Made Geoffrey Hinton into an AI Doomer. Wired. Report. News. Text. | |
| Fortesa Latifi. Influencer Parents and the Kids Who Had Their Childhood Made Into Content. TeenVogue. Pop Culture. Report. What’s News. Text. | |
| Kiese Laymon. That’s Not Actually True. Scalawag. Narrative. Diversities. Text. | |
| Gabriel Lesser. G Is for Gabi. Johns Hopkins News-Letter. Narrative. Language. Text. | |
| Shayla Love. The Food Scientists Working to Change the Colors You Eat. The New Yorker. Analysis, Report. Nature, The New Normal, Text. | |
| Mahina Maeda. What It Means to Be from Two Places at Once. Players’ Tribune. Narrative. Sports. Text. | |
| Nikiko Masumoto. Returning to My Family Farm Is About More Than Succession. It’s About Story. Civil Eats. Narrative. Nature. Text. | |
| Scott McDonald. NCAA Gender Inequity Cuts Deeper than Just Weight Room Issues at Tournament. Newsweek. Argument, Report. Diversities, Sports. Text. | |
| Rose McMackin. How Country Music Turned the Ford F-150 Into a Luxury Ride. Texas Monthly. Analysis, Argument, Review. Language, Pop Culture. Text. | |
| Brittney McNamara. The Science behind Social Media’s Hold on Our Mental Health. Teen Vogue. Report. Language. Text. | |
| Sam Miller. What Happens As Baseball Players Age? ESPN. Report. Sports. Text. | |
| Tracy Moore. How Covid-19 Gave Me Back My Southern Accent. The Washington Post. Narrative. Language, The New Normal. Text. | |
| A. Kirsten Mullen and William Darity Jr. Opinion | Evanston, Ill., Approved “Reparations.” Except It Isn’t Reparations. The Washington Post. Argument, Analysis. Diversities. Text. | |
| Leslie Nemo. How Do Dogs Sniff Out Diseases? Discover. Analysis. Nature. Text. | |
| Tim Nudd. This Full Page Ad Was Written Entirely in Chicken. Muse by Clio. Report. Language. Text, Image. | |
| Brian Oaster. How Place Names Impact the Way We See Landscape. High Country News. Argument. Language. Text. | |
| Meghan O’Gieblyn. Am I Wrong to Judge People for Talking to Me in Emoji? Wired. Argument. Analysis. Language. Text. | |
| Morgan Pace. Let’s Talk, Longhorns. The Daily Texan. Argument. Diversities. Text. | |
| PBS Wisconsin Education. Manoomin: Food that Grows on the Water. Youtube. Argument, Narrative. Language. Nature. Video. | |
| Tom Philpott. After a Century of Dispossession, Black Farmers Are Fighting to Get Back to the Land. Mother Jones. Report. Diversities. Text. | |
| Leonard Pitts Jr. True Compassion Is More Than Flinging a Coin to a Beggar. Daily Camera. Argument. Diversities. Text. | |
| Maria Ressa. Nobel Prize Lecture 2021. YouTube. Argument. What’s News? Video. | |
| William Rhoden. LSU’s Angel Reese, Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, and the Double Standards of Race in Sports. Andscape. Argument. Diversities, Pop Culture, Sports. Text. | |
| Greg Rosalsky. Why Are So Many Americans Quitting Their Jobs? NPR. Report. The New Normal. Text. | |
| Michael Rosen. Breaking the Grass Ceiling: More Women Are Playing College Baseball Than Ever Before. Sports Illustrated. Argument, Report. Diversities, Sports. Text. | |
| David M. Rothschild. Warped Front Pages. Columbia Journalism Review. Argument. What’s News? Text. | |
| Mary Schmich. Would Honey the Duck Come Back This Spring? Chicago Tribune. Report, Narrative. Nature, The New Normal. Text. | |
| Sarah Scire. The Washington Post Takes the “Unusual Step” of Publishing Graphic Photos from Mass Shootings. Nieman Lab. Report. What’s News? Text. | |
| Jeremy P. Shapiro. The Thinking Error That Makes People Susceptible to Climate Change Denial. The Conversation. Report. Nature. Text. | |
| David Skinner. Philip Gove and “Our Word”. The American Scholar. Narrative, Report. Language. Text. | |
| Zoe Sottile. Yes, This New York County Actually Used the Crazy Spider Voting Sticker Design that You Saw Online. CNN. Argument, Report. Pop Culture, What’s News? Image. Text. | |
| Brandon Summers-Miller. Why Are So Many Cakes Named After Fabric? Epicurious. Analysis. Language. Text. | |
| Shira Telushkin. Making Gender-Neutral Emojis Is More Complicated Than You Think. Wired. Report. Language, Pop Culture. Text. | |
| The Ocean Cleanup. How System 002 Works. YouTube. Report. Nature. Video. | |
| Kathryn VanArendonk. How Bluey Became the Best Kids’ Show of Our Time. Vulture. Review. Pop Culture. Text | |
| Ellen Wayland-Smith. Natural Magic. The American Scholar. Report, Narrative. Nature. Text. | |
| Steven Weinberg. The History of American Landscape Painting Is Not Pretty. Hyperallergic. Argument. Nature. Graphic Essay, Image. | |
| Tess Wilkinson-Ryan. Our Minds Aren’t Equipped for This Kind of Reopening. The Atlantic. Analysis. The New Normal. Text. | |
| Why So Many Baseball Players Are Dominican. Vox. Argument. Diversities, Sports. Video. | |
| World Wildlife Fund. Love It or Lose It: The Cycle. YouTube. Argument, Narrative. Nature. Video. | |
| Qing Zhang. A Profit-Sharing Proposal. LaGuardia Honors. Argument. Diversities. Text. |
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