Big Saturday morning roundup

Syria is so much about resources, which are so influenced by climate. Even corporations that have historically not given a shit are waking up to the impacts of climate change.

Bill Gates sees a future where no country is poor.

Antivaxxers have made people sicker.

In memory of Juan Gelman.

His work was not routinely translated into English, partly because he was interested in exploiting nuances of language that were difficult to capture in other tongues... The independence of languages and the relation of language to life were issues he addressed often, notably in “Translations III: The Poems of Sidney West.”

Tom Philpott on GMOs. SciAm on the non-controversial variety. Grist qualifies whether they matter. The Onion on picky (boring) eaters.

Rules for babies in restaurants.

Have I mentioned that physicists seem to be obsessed with cats?

Practice, at a certain point, only really matters if you're actively thinking about what you're doing.

Anais Nin apparently echoes my thoughts on decluttering (or, rather, I echo hers).

Blow quotes Rich on writing columns. Someone forgettably rambles about how long-form is form over function, which is too bad because there's some truth to that. I say that as an erstwhile loyal reader of the New Yorker who's sort of had it.

People are increasingly turned off by shallow, ostentatious displays of luxury by public figures, from kings to governors (or their easy-to-hate spouses). Which brings us to... more conversations about women (which are best had under the assumptions that we are human and can hear you and will write about you). After all, we are people and we own our own bodies and sexuality.

On that note, did I miss this photovoltaic swimsuit the first time around, because I totally want one. And yes, we can engage in what is ostensibly beauty myth crap for ourselves (or for someone else) without having to explain it or reconcile it with a higher philosophy. But--I am a simple woman--will need to explain to me how "submission" (rather than the normal compromise and division of roles that every couple grapples with) isn't a "matter of superior versus inferior."