Currently Creasing: Week of August 19

Photograph of Roxane Gay ℅ Medium

Here’s what our team has for you to bookmark & read this week

1. Amid the Kale and Corn, Fears of White Supremacy: Protests and counterprotests have jolted a market in Indiana where activists now hand out buttons that say “Don’t Buy Veggies From Nazis.”

2. An Alternate Theory for What Causes Alzheimer's Disease: Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia among the elderly, is characterized by plaques and tangles in the brain, with most efforts at finding a cure

3. Lyme Disease Is Baffling, Even to Experts: But new insights are at last accumulating.

4. The Truth About Painkiller Addiction: Amid an opioid crisis, authorities overestimated the danger of prescription painkillers—while doing too little to identify patients at risk of addiction.

5. Tiny liver grown in the lab. Here's what it can teach us: The most complex mini-organ of its kind offers clues to treating a host of diseases.

6. We Have Ruined Childhood: For youngsters these days, an hour of free play is like a drop of water in the desert. Of course they’re miserable.

7. The Why of Cooking: What’s the most efficient path to kitchen wisdom?

8. Summer is almost over and for some, but here’s a playlist that is a musical rendition of sun reflecting in a pool and car rides back home in the Blue Hour.

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Thought of the Week

“What does it say about our culture that the desire for weight loss is considered a default feature of womanhood?”

— Roxane Gay, Hunger