i’m blue jeans and apple pie and the indian removal act: America reminds its citizens that it is still their country
heated rivalry: Don DeLillo’s contribution to the erotic sports genre with the pseudonymous novel Amazons—via MetaFilter
thermoradiative diode: reverse solar panels harness infrared energy at nighttime
your money’s no good here: photos of ICE with their backs turned posing with detainees (Minnesota rioters) is sending the opposite message
once upon a prime time: a 1966 Canadian parody about a housewife who loses her family to television and then sees her home invaded by TV tropes
mirror, mirror: our brains interpret a left to right reversal in our reflections when its really back to front hรฉzmษnd-halsh: more unexpectedly effortful British family names—see previously
another country: Adam Shatz writing for the London Review of Books on the sublime abomination—via Web Curios