Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
Journalist at Freelance
Linda Rodriguez McRobbie covers the weird stuff for Boston Globe, The Guardian, Atlas Obscura, and anyone else who likes ideas. New book, OUCH! out now! (she)
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Jan 23, 2025 |
mentalfloss.com | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
“But if I lose you, what is left to hope for? What reason for continuing on the pilgrimage of life?”ByLinda Rodriguez McRobbie|For as long as people could write, it seems, the more romantic and less self-conscious among us have been penning love letters. But in the era of ephemeral digital communication, the visceral pleasure of a handwritten love letter is largely lost. What school-age kid can even read cursive anymore?
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Oct 30, 2024 |
smithsonianmag.com | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie |Ellen Wexler
History | The game was born from Americans’ obsession with Spiritualism in the 19th century.
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Oct 1, 2024 |
saturdayeveningpost.com | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
The sounds of a foosball game are specific and unforgettable: The rattling roll of the ball on the table surface, the hollow thump of the metal rod being spun, the sudden plastic thwack of a “player” making contact with the ball, the satisfying metallic ring when it rockets into a goal.
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Jun 19, 2024 |
saturdayeveningpost.com | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
The earliest recipe book devoted entirely to making ice cream was L’Art de bien faire les glaces d’office by a mysterious M. Emy, published in 1768. The illustration on the frontispiece depicts roughly how ice cream was made at the time: By industrious flocks of chubby, naked cherubs with tiny wings, while God and Jesus, reposing in the clouds with a startled dove, look down from the heavens.
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Apr 29, 2024 |
bostonglobe.com | Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
For all that we talk about red flags these days — in relationships, in the workplace, in political candidates — it isn’t always easy to spot them. So what if there was a quick and usually fun way to weed out toxic people? A psychological litmus test that doesn’t involve a 500-question personality inventory or a clickbait quiz aimed at declaring which bird you’re most like? Magic, for many people, is delightful. “It shows you that anything is possible. If you can dream it, you can do it.
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Wow!! We are so incredibly honoured by this - thank you!!
The award for the Feature Most Likely to Inspire Future Journalists goes to @LinRod and a team including Amelia Lang, @eoinocarroll and Decimal Studios for “The People vs Rubber Bullets” for @longleads. https://t.co/G4hIP3oy9M 22/
We are tremendously honoured!! Thank you!!
Congratulations to @LinRod, @eoinocarroll, @jppullen and Amelia Lang at @LongLead for winning the #SDXAward in Specialized Journalism Site for "The People versus rubber bullets." See more: https://t.co/1NbkBzvy8u
Be kind to our future robot overlords! My latest for the Boston Globe on why it's best to be polite, for all of us...
As artificial intelligence bots and we humans learn to manage one another, @LinRod writes, perhaps the best approach is the simplest: Just be kind. https://t.co/uiMpmmjLDB
