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I’m not sure, I’m sorry. Here’s a little bit of what I’ve read this month, though:

What Happened to the Uber-for-X Companies, Alexis C. Madrigal

Does meditation stress you out? Here’s what I do instead, Sarah McKay

Fighting for My Son With Cystic Fibrosis, Jen Gann

I Have a Son With a Genetic Disease, and I’m Pregnant, Jen Gann

Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths — or Falling Into Old Traps?, Gideon Lewis-Kraus

How Much Money Means You Don’t Have to Worry?, Caragh Poh

The Woman Refusing to Let Palestine’s Farming Roots Die, Leila Ettachfini|

Oops! Famously Scathing Reviews of Classic Books From The Times’s Archive, Tina Jordan

The Coffin Business Is Booming in Central America Due to Gang Violence, Matthew Bremner

White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots, Adam Serwer

The Fertility Doctor’s Secret, Sarah Zhang

Dementia looks different in brains of Latinos, Dorsey Griffith

Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris, Gary Greenberg

Teens who seek solitude may know what’s best for them, research suggests, Jennifer McNulty

We’re treating friendships like transactions, and it’s ruining relationships, Ephrat Livni

Climate change is causing Birthstrikers to refuse to have children, Aylin Woodward

The Mysterious Cervicorn: Nature’s Unicorn Deer

Health Benefits of Eating Dandelions – How to Harvest Leaves, Greens, Flowers & Roots, Heather Levin

Outdoor Voices Blurs the lines Between Working Out and Everything Else, Jia Tolentino

Bill Hader Kills, Tad Friend

The Dirty on Getting Clean

How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception and Meaning, Raleigh McElvery

Farming While Black: ‘People are Tired of Armchair Activism’, Mark Bittman

The Myth of Hot-Weather Watering

A death on Usenet: Sharon Lopatka and the strange case of “consensual murder”, Jeremy Lybarger

On the Trail of the Robocall King, Alex W. Palmer

Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good, Nellie Bowles

Children develop PTSD when they ‘overthink’ their trauma

How it Feels to Go on Hunger Strike, Stephen Lurie

Heal Me With Plants, Ellie Shechet

Discovered After 70, Black Artists Find Success, Too, Has Its Price, Hilarie M. Sheets

Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast, Elizabeth Kolbert

The Ecstatic Beauty of Baseball, AJ DiCosimo

He Got Schizophrenia. He Got Cancer. And Then He Got Cured., Moises Velasquez-Manoff

66 million-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor, Robert Sanders

The Death of an Adjunct, Adam Harris

The agony of ending a wanted late-term pregnancy: three women speak out, Natalia Megas

Suicide in the medical profession: ‘If we’re not well, how can we look after our patients?’, Kim Arlington

Fiona Alison Duncan Curates Books for Homes, Hotels, and Shops, Adam Robb

I Lied When I Said We Did Everything We Could, Lane Wilson MD

It Was Just a Kayaking Trip. Until It Upended Our Lives., Jon Mooalem

The Mystery Gift at the End of the World, Brian Rea

There Is No Reason to Cross the U.S. by Train. But I Did It Anyway., Caity Weaver

The Unthinkable Has Happened, Jayson Greene

What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away, Jia Tolentino

Stumbling Into Adulthood, Alongside a Friend, Julie Beck

‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’, Heather Havrilesky

‘Will Grief Destroy My New Marriage?’, Heather Havrilesky

Grieving the Future I Imagined for My Daughter, Julie Kim

Gifted and Talented Programs Separate Students by Race, Whitney Pirtle

I Can’t Let Go of How Badly My Family Treated Me When My Mom Was Sick, Lori Gottlieb

My Wife Is Pregnant With a Child Neither of Us Wants, Lori Gottlieb

Sea change: the underwater restaurant with a new approach to marine research, Rachel Hall

An Elegy for the Jewish Retirees of Miami Beach, Naomi Fry

Blockbuster Films Keep Getting Longer; How And Why Did We Get Here?, Chris Klimek

Students In Mozambique Are Afraid The Winds Will Blow Them Away, Tendai Marima

Does Taking Time For Compassion Make Doctors Better At Their Jobs?, L. Carol Ritchie

For the past 148 years, Yosemite’s Lyell Glacier has taught us about the Earth — how it was created, where it was going, and now, how it might end., Daniel Duane

The pregnant teen, the villager giving birth far from home, the woman imprisoned for miscarrying: pregnancy in El Salvador, where women can’t choose where, or whether, to give birth, Nadia Shira Cohen

The Company That Sells Love to America Had a Dark Secret, Taffy Brodesser-Akner

This Was Supposed to Be a Story About a Bizarre Anti-Vaccine Rally and a Sedated Bear. Then It Got Weird., Anna Merlan

Voices On Addiction: They Call It Spirits, Connie Pertuz-Meza

My Mother’s Tongue, Zavi Kang Engles

Lunch Money, Gabrielle Rucker

The man who sailed round the world with a chicken, Emma Beddington

The Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store, Joe Fassler

A Woman’s Work: The Inside Story, Carolita Johnson

To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time, Matthew Salesses

No Heart, No Moon, Matt Jones

Mothering on the Borders, Yifat Susskind

What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About, Dylan Landis

air moons (gemini, libra, aquarius): intellectualize. they don’t want to feel their emotions, they want to think through them. emotions stress them out and they feel a constant need to analyze, pick apart and find logic and rational behind the things going on in their mind rather than just letting these emotions flow. they talk about their own feelings a lot (but not usually to a person one on one, moreso in a venting sense, maybe into the tumblr tags or a twitter thread) despite not dealing with them. often awkward when offering emotional comfort and get very overwhelmed when people are upset/sad around them. these moons rarely talk about their feelings seriously, they usually only talk about them when they can make it humorous or sarcastic. the type to let emotions build and build and when they finally allow themselves to feel these things it creates an intense emotional breakdown. come to an air moon when you’re sad and they’re likely going to crack some jokes to make you feel better; often will offer pieces of advice but only if you’ve asked for it.

fire moons (leo, sagittarius, aries): they feel too much, so much and so strongly. fire moons never feel an emotion to a simple extent, everything is ALWAYS amplified. they are either very happy, or very sad or very angry. emotions are fleeting and can go away as quickly as they came on, mood swings are common. they can easily get frustrated in dealing with their emotions as they’re so intense they can struggle to put them into words. they often feel a burden to keep the mood up wherever they go and therefore feel like they shouldn’t tell people when they’re feeling negative. consider feelings of sadness and similar emotions to be a “weakness” and may try to hide these from others instead of seeking the comfort they may need. may often feel emotionally exhausted because feeling one thing for them is so strong it’s like they mentally ran a marathon. come to a fire moon when you’re sad and they’ll do everything they can to cheer you up, probably going as far to threatening the thing that upset you in the first place.

earth moons (capricorn, virgo, taurus): analyze or repress. like air moons, they don’t want to feel their emotions and would rather analyze and work their way through them. however, earth moons often tend to just repress their emotions instead of even trying to find a reason behind them like air moons do. rarely ever vent about their feelings, these moons feel a responsibility to be a stable rock for everyone around them and view emotions as a weakness in themselves. emotions are usually more stable than the other moons. when they get really emotional and finally allow themselves to feel everything, it causes them huge amounts of stress. these moon signs hold onto emotions for a while, when they’re upset it’s lasting, and it can take a lot for them to get their moods back up. they’re so hard on themselves emotionally and rarely give themselves a break. despite struggling with emotions these signs can be very good with emotional comfort because they provide solutions to the problems people come with. come to an earth moon when you’re upset and they’ll help you get to the root of the problem and talk you through what you need to do.

Aries: Schadenfreude. German – the feeling of pleasure derived by seeing another’s misfortune.

Taurus: Cafuné. Brazilian Portuguese – The act of tenderly running one’s fingers through someone’s hair.

Gemini: Verschlimmbessern. German – to make something worse when trying to improve it.

Cancer: Mamihlapinatapei. Yagan/Tierra del Fuego – The wordless, yet meaningful look shared by two people who both desire to initiate something but are both reluctant to start.

Leo: Kjæreste. Norwegian – A gender neutral term for girlfriend or boyfriend. It literally translates as “dearest”.

Virgo: Wabi-Sabi. Japanese – “a way of living that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of life and accepting peacefully the natural cycle of growth and decay.”

Libra: L’ésprit d’escalier. French – is the feeling of finding the perfect retort too late, though it literally translates to “staircase wit.

Scorpio: La douleur exquise. French – the exquisite pain that comes from loving someone who will never love you back.

Sagittarius: Fremdschämen. German – Embarrassment you feel on behalf of someone who is too dumb to know they’ve done something they should be embarrassed by.

Capricorn: Geborgenheit. German – the feeling that, when with a certain person or in a certain place, that nothing could ever harm you.

Aquarius: Koev halev. Hebrew – Empathizing with someone else so deeply that it causes your heart to ache.