Dan Nosowitz
Writer and Editor at Freelance
freelance writer/editor. @atlasobscura, @modfarm, @vox, @nytimes, etc. hawaii is the best season of the real world. email: [email protected]
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5 days ago |
atlasobscura.com | Dan Nosowitz
It wasn’t so much that my friend, a Brit who has lived in Los Angeles for many years, said the word “taco” differently than I do. The confounding thing was that it was difficult for him to hear the difference, and that when he could distinguish it, he insisted that his way was more correct, closer to the way a Spanish speaker would say it.
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5 days ago |
flipboard.com | Dan Nosowitz
1 hour agoWere you born this way?Astrological signs that you’re a total weirdoWere you born under strange stars? Before we examine the birth chart placements that indicate apex weirdness, a note about the word itself. Weird comes …5 hours ago2-Year-Old Prodigy Joins 'High IQ' Club Mensa as Youngest Member EverAt an age most children struggle to make it through the alphabet, two-year-old British toddler Joseph Harris-Birtill can already read full books.
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1 month ago |
dwell.com | Dan Nosowitz
Meta’s equivalent to Craigslist and eBay is a vital resource for home goods and design finds—if you’re willing to sift through the trash to find treasure. A couple of years ago, when I was shopping for a new couch, I spent an hour or so a day, every day, for weeks, until I found the right one, on Facebook Marketplace. It took another week or two to pester the seller enough to actually meet me, and then a day to figure out the logistics of moving a couch when you drive a Fiat.
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Jan 24, 2025 |
atlasobscura.com | Dan Nosowitz |Sam O’Brien |Anne Ewbank |Diana Hubbell
So many shareable moments, from historical sandwiches to stories from the beyond.
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Dec 30, 2024 |
dwell.com | Dan Nosowitz
My valiant efforts to save my veggies from the inquisitive paws of some friendly critters was a flop—so the garden is now their buffet. Before I moved to Los Angeles,I lived in New York, where I was an enthusiastic gardener, which meant that I had tomatoes and herbs and peppers in containers on my fourth floor outdoor space that my landlord advertised as a "balcony" but which was actually a fire escape in which the ladder had been removed, making escape impossible.
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after a bit of a hiatus i'm back to writing about weird language stuff! in this article i made linguists watch a bunch of tiktoks to discover the secret of the "crispy R" https://t.co/pF81GJVGHd
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