Reading archive 2023-01-12

Why top restaurants are getting rid of stoves (and why you might, too): These burners hang on your wall until you need to cook something, echoing a growing trend among professional kitchens.

Hundreds Gather In Brookland To Demand Answers On Shooting Of 13-Year-Old Karon Blake

Survey finds ‘classical fascist’ antisemitic views widespread in U.S. - "'I like to tell my students: Kanye has more followers on Instagram than there are Jewish people in the world. So the extent to which Americans seem to believe these conspiratorial views about Jews is alarming,' [Ilana Horwitz] said. Ye has more than 18 million followers on Instagram alone."

D.C. investigates Adams Morgan business group after years of complaints

California’s Redwood Forests Don’t Mind Wet, Windy Weather: Though some trees may be toppled in storms, experts say that redwood trees, which can live for centuries, are adapted to a wide range of weather events.

Cougars Are Heading East. We Should Welcome Them. - "Scientists estimate a recolonization of the Eastern United States by cougars could reduce deer-vehicle collisions by 22 percent over 30 years, averting 21,400 human injuries, 155 human fatalities and over $2 billion in costs. The return of cougars to South Dakota in the 1990s, for example, reduced costs of deer- vehicle collisions by an estimated $1.1 million annually."