December 19, 2017

From Harper's:

[As] oceans warm, fish are expected to shrink by 20 to 30 percent.

From Harper's:

Dry climates produce languages with fewer vowels.

From The Economist:

Switzerland is still the country with the highest mean and median wealth per person.

From The New Yorker:

I had a father in New York City whom I did not remember, and who (it was promised) would one day deliver my family to the States. And here was my first television and my first cartoon and my first superhero—a hero who, like my father, was in America—and somehow it all came together for me in a lightning bolt of longing and imagination. My father’s absence made perfect sense. He couldn’t come back right away because he was busy fighting crime in N.Y.C. . . . as Spider-Man.

From Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny:

Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy.