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List of articles I recently found interesting to read.

• The Untold History of Turkish-Kurdish Alliances. A millennium of intermittent cooperation has been obscured by the past century’s politics
• Modern Warfare Is Breeding Deadly Superbugs. Why? Researchers are trying to understand why resistant pathogens are so prevalent in the war-torn nations of the Middle East. (bypass Paywall)
• Happy Native American Heritage Month From the Army That Brought You the Trail of Tears. After 250 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate.
• Undersea Surgeons. In a wireless world, it is easy to forget the all-too-real cables that snake across the turbulent ocean floor. Until they snap. (bypass Paywall)
• “The honest answer is that we have no idea,” Altman replied.
• ‘Dunbar's number’ deconstructed
• Casual Viewing. Why Netflix looks like that
• Sweetening the Deal for Cocoa Producers. Pan-African collectives are finding new ways to boost the bargaining power of farmers supplying the chocolate industry
• The Case for Letting Malibu Burn. Many of California’s native ecosystems evolved to burn. Modern fire suppression creates fuels that lead to catastrophic fires. So why do people insist on rebuilding in the firebelt?
• As President, Jimmy Carter Was Not a “Peacemaker”. The late Carter’s foreign policy record as president was mixed at best.
• The Architects Of L.A.’s Wildfire Devastation. Developers and real estate interests crushed efforts to limit development in high-wildfire-risk areas — including in L.A. neighborhoods now in ashes
• The Slop Society. In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta
• Air pollution and brain damage: what the science says. Epidemiological studies have linked dirty air to dementia and other brain disorders. Now researchers are trying to determine how pollutants do their damage, and how much harm they cause.
• Biden Administration. A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza
• Who Goes Nazi? by Dorothy Thompson in 1941.
• Turtle Lake. Those who did it from a distance erased the people’s language. Once they could claim their fiction of terra nullius they flooded in close and put up fences. They erased the history of their conquest and they erased the lake’s history too.
• Retinol: The Skin-Care Ingredient With a Horrifying History. The miraculous wrinkle-erasing, acne-fighting cream, is the result of decades of horrifying medical abuse.
• The Disintegration of Assad’s Army. How political decisions, internal conflicts and external pressures led to the downfall of a once-powerful military force in Syria
• The secret history of Syria’s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa. Is the man once known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani intent on moderating or a brutal strongman?
• The California Carbon Rush. Green goes wrong as wildfires rage on (bypass Paywall)