J.D. Vance! Toilet Seat Covers! Male Drivers!
What I learned from magazines this month
I read a lot of magazines and I like to share what I’ve learned. Here’s what I learned from reading magazines this month:
Male drivers take more risks on the road when their GPS speaks to them in a seductive female voice. (The Week, 8/23/24)
The ultrarich don’t live any longer than a typical male dermatologist. (New York, July 15–28, 2024).
J.D. Vance’s hometown of Middletown, Ohio was pounded by golf ball-sized hail just minutes after he was named Donald Trump’s running mate. (The Week, 7/26/24).
After the book Ban this Book, about the fact that book-banning is wrong, was, ironically, banned by a Florida school board? Sales of the book soared. (The Gay & Lesbian Review, 9–109–24)
Theodore Roosevelt liked “girls’ stories and “worshipped” the book Little Women as a young boy. (New York Magazine 12/9/19)
Pillowcases and toilet-seat covers are strikingly similar from a microbiological point of view. (New York Magazine, 6/2022)
Surgical patients with plants in their rooms have lower blood pressure and use less pain medication than patients in plant-free rooms. (New York Magazine, 6/22)
