The Atlantic

At Irma’s in Houston, Mexican food is in the right hands—mothers’ and grandmothers’.     

A few hours northeast of Bangkok, American-style cowboy culture thrives.   

"The task of defending Earth from objects falling from the skies seems most fitting for NASA, or perhaps for a multinational civilian agency that might be created. Which raises the question: What could NASA, or anyone else, actually do to provide a defense?... Unlike in the movies, where impossibly good-looking, wisecracking men and women grab space suits and race to the launchpad immediately after receiving a warning that something is approaching from space, in real life preparations to defend against a space object would take many years."