What I read today Jan 8

• Tribal Elder Hears Grandfather’s Voice in Archived Songs, Yes! Magazine

• For a Sustainable Food System, Look to Seeds, Yes! Magazine

• Santa isn’t real, and healthcare is a human right, The Outline

• Abortion Without Roe, The New Republic

• Why Are NYC Parents So Upset At The Idea Of Scrapping 'Gifted And Talented' Programs?, Gothamist

• Wanna-Beats: In 1959, Café Bizarre Gave Straights an Entree Into Beatnik Culture, Collectors Weekly

• How Four Madagascar Villages Battled a Blaze to Save Their Trees, Atlas Obscura

• The Elite Sake Brewer on Route 66, Atlas Obscura

• These Lost Crops Were a Likely Staple Food in Indigenous North America, Modern Farmer

• Underground and Underserved: To Be Blind or Deaf and Ride the NYC Subway, City Limits

• Puget Sound tribes and scientists join forces to breed millions of clams, The New Food Economy

• Two Trees Developer Rolls Eyes at Community’s Concerns During Williamsburg Meeting, Bklynr

• America Has Never Cared About Sacred Sites, The New Republic

• The Sordid History of Mount Rushmore, Smithsonian Mag

• Easter Island’s Monoliths Made the Crops Grow, Atlas Obscura