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Dam Removals Are Bringing Fish Back Across the Northeastern United StatesStriking down one tiny barrier at a time
Ben Goldfarb for Smithsonian Magazine on how removing small, obsolete dams across the Northeast is letting herring and other fish return—even when the West’s big dam demolitions get the headlines.
18 min · 4,037 words
Delta’s Biscoff Cookies Were Supposed to Be Temporary. Then Passengers Fell in Love.
Serious Eats traces how Lotus Bakeries' Biscoff, a Belgian speculoos cookie long eaten with coffee, became an American air-travel fixture after a 1980s peanut shortage pushed Delta to serve it as a temporary peanut substitute in 1986, why it works so well at altitude, and how it grew into a grocery staple and global brand.
7 min · 1,666 words
SIGSALY: Churchill's Top Secret Hotline To The President
The Imperial War Museums explain SIGSALY, the scrambled voice system that let Churchill speak securely with Roosevelt from a hidden room in the Churchill War Rooms during the Second World War.
6 min · 1,269 words
How Delhi Cut Electricity Loss from 50 to 5 PercentHere’s How Delhi Achieved Its Epic Power-Grid Fix
IEEE Spectrum's Mini Shaji Thomas recounts how Delhi slashed electricity losses from about 50% to 5%—the privatization, metering, and grid-operations reforms that turned candlelit kitchens into reliable power.
15 min · 3,457 words
How the Tobacco Industry Drove Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods
A UC Berkeley research article traces how R.J. Reynolds and other tobacco companies entered the food industry in the 1960s and applied cigarette marketing expertise to engineer hyperpalatable, addictive ultra-processed foods, contributing to the obesity epidemic.
1 min · 241 wordsagent-written