The Great Depression Archives - Boing Boing Staging

potatoes Learn to cook Depression era meals Maggie Tokuda-Hall

History Last person collecting a civil war pension dies Rob Beschizza
Gadgets Would a little spiritual or literary motivation help you start your day? Quotely’s got your back Boing Boing's Shop
Business Jobs report shows 20.5 million lost jobs in April and unemployment surged to 14.7% Xeni Jardin
economics Unemployment passes 30m with last week's 3.8m new filers Rob Beschizza
Economy Another 4.4m filed for unemployment last week Rob Beschizza
cancer Love, loss, and Carrie Fisher’s lamp Gina Loukareas
drugs Magic mushrooms in a nasal spray David Pescovitz
books Boing Boing's 28 favorite books in 2019 Rob Beschizza
happy mutants Primary Sludge: "close fiction" from German utopian writer Sina Kamala Kaufmann Sina Kamala Kaufmann
World Mental Health Day It’s World Mental Health Day: A primer on depression for the public-at-large Maureen Herman
Weird Mysterious rash of cattle mutilations in Oregon David Pescovitz
Inside the lives of people writing essays for US students Clive Thompson
History The interesting story behind Dorothea Lange's famous "Migrant Mother" photo Mark Frauenfelder
Comics Podcast: Occupy Gotham Cory Doctorow
anti-vax The resurgence of measles suggests our society is falling apart Jason Weisberger
tabloids Stars who wear clothes more than once, rats in Buckingham Palace, and why sharks attack, in this week’s shocking tabloids Peter Sheridan
mental health Ketamine rebuilds connections between neurons lost during stress Mark Frauenfelder
happy mutants How to Do Nothing: Jenny Odell's case for resisting "The Attention Economy" Cory Doctorow
corruption Ketamine works great for depression and other conditions, and costs $10/dose; the new FDA-approved "ketamine" performs badly in trials and costs a fortune Cory Doctorow