The twin studies. As my baby girls near a year, Priscilla Jensen shares this fascinating read on one of nature’s little miracles: the strange similarity of twins.
‘I hit dingers.’ Alfred Delia became this year’s Little League World Series instant classic with this introduction: “Hi, my name’s Alfred Delia. At home they call me ‘Big Al,’ and I hit dingers.”
Speaking of dingers… Jayson Werth has retired from baseball, but he is still hitting dingers. At men’s league night games. Take a peek. But more importantly, read the story of how this came to be.
The best car anti-theft system. Richard Starr shares this local news story in the Washington Post out of Bethesda, Md., where two would-be car thieves discovered they couldn’t drive stick. I did it for a number of years before upgrading, but Washington is a tough town for a stick shift with all the traffic.
Angus King’s Instagram Book. Senators often write books (Flake, Sasse), but a picture book? Yep. Over at Roll Call the great Niels Lesniewski has a video review. King isn’t the Senate’s best known photographer, though. That honor definitely goes to his neighbor, Pat Leahy.
A watch for all time zones. I haven’t gotten a rating here from in-house watch sommelier Jonathan V. Last, but this Bloomberg review of the classic Casio World Timer has me harkening for the 1990s.
The Iraqi spy who infiltrated ISIS. Last week at the New York Times, their big feature was this wonderfully documented look at the life of an Iraqi hero who helped fight the evils of ISIS.
So politely mean, only a Canadian could write it. In the Atlantic, David Frum takes a look at the curious path of Dinesh D’Souza.
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