Uptown vote to preserve parking is another failure by the Minneapolis Park Board
The choice of surface parking over green space ignored five years of community engagement and planning.
by Bill Lindeke
https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2025/04/uptown-vote-to-preserve-parking-is-another-failure-by-the-minneapolis-park-board/

Not to quibble, he said quibbling, but ain’t this green space parallel to a train track that’s been turned into a bicycle lane on one side? Ain’t the other side lined with, err, older apartment buildings that a few people live in? You know — old — back when the city had public transportation? Don’t it run into a maze of roads running around a couple of large ponds? Ain’t the biggest use of it the dearly lamented and departed annual Uptown Art Fair (for some values of art, err, tat).

Russia? China?
Fears grow that Signal leaks make Pete Hegseth top espionage target
Experts say Pentagon chief has endangered secrets of US defense department and given assistance to foreign spies
Ben Makuch
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/23/pete-hegseth-pentagon-espionage

Meta ‘hastily’ changed moderation policy with little regard to impact, says oversight board
Facebook and Instagram owner also criticised for leaving up posts inciting violence during UK riots
Dan Milmo Global technology editor
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/23/meta-hastily-changed-moderation-policy-with-little-regard-to-impact-says-oversight-board

Say, ain’t he got a birthday any day now real soon?
Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests
Professor says text shows Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage
Dalya Alberge
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/apr/23/shakespeare-did-not-leave-his-wife-anne-in-stratford-letter-fragment-suggests

Cluster headaches are ‘the most painful condition on the planet’. Sufferers are going to extreme – and secretive – measures for relief
An illustration of a person standing at a window in a field. The sky is dark and filled with lightning, but through the window frame the skies are bright and clear and light streams in. Mushrooms grow around the base.
The condition is more excruciating than childbirth or gunshot wounds, but little understood. An online community of ‘clusterheads’ are self-experimenting with psilocybin – with promising results
Sammie Seamon
https://www.theguardian.com/science/ng-interactive/2025/apr/23/cluster-headaches-magic-mushrooms-psilocybin

The wholegrain revolution! How Denmark changed the diet – and health – of their entire nation
Is it possible to make a country healthier one slice of rye bread at a time? If the rocketing wholegrain consumption of the Danes is anything to go by, absolutely
Rachel Dixon
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/apr/23/the-wholegrain-revolution-how-denmark-changed-the-diet-and-health-of-their-entire-nation

Please, yell at my kids! Five lessons I’ve learned about good parenting from around the world
I traveled from Mozambique to Finland to learn parenting hacks, and came away with the same lesson: parenting is hard everywhere, but nowhere is it as lonely as it is in the US
Marina Lopes
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2025/apr/23/parenting-tips-around-the-world

Are breakfast cereals really good for us?
Jasmin Fox-Skelly
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250422-are-breakfast-cereals-really-good-for-us

Why should I care if the US dollar falls?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyn1egyn4xo