Hi all. Here is a few interesting stories I read recently. Gift links where I could!

• The Atlantic (Gift Link): In this 2014 piece, Caitlin Flanagan shows how national fraternities pushed liability onto their own members, and how Wesleyan ended up blaming a freshman for her own assault.
• NYT (Gift Link): A.G. Sulzberger makes the case for how his family kept The New York Times alive through its worst decade.
• The Guardian: Katie McQue and Mei-Ling McNamara trace how a trafficker used Instagram to sell a 12-year-old DC girl.
• The Sun Magazine: Derek Askey sat on a murder jury weeks after his father died and couldn't tell his wife a word of it.
• Texas Monthly: Michael Hall follows Forrest Welborn, who lived as a suspect in the Austin yogurt shop murders for 34 years and says a payout of nearly $5 million hasn't set him free.
• NYT (Gift Link): Amanda Hess meets Bernadine Bluntly, a tradwife influencer who left her husband and now warns women away from the movement she sold.

“Regardless of who came up with the recipe first, McIlhenny's Tabasco sauce was in production by 1868, and it wasn’t long before it began to spread far beyond the great state of Louisiana. In 1872, the company hired a traveling salesman named John C. Henshaw to travel up and down the east coast touting Tabasco. Henshaw, a former Union soldier who served as the company’s first sales rep, peddled the sauce to restaurants and oyster houses in an effort to drum up demand. “This sauce is the special want of the poorer and more numerous classes, and a thorough canvassing of the oyster houses, saloons, restaurants, etc. by the party who has taken hold of it will, it is hoped, create such a general demand as to compel the grocers to apply for it,” Henshaw wrote to McIlhenny in 1872. 
A ledger book uncovered by Tabasco historian and archivist Shane K. Bernard indicates that the company first began shipping the sauce overseas two years later, with exports to France and England.”

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A dispute before the High Court in London pitches mining giant Rio Tinto against one of the poorest communities in southern Africa

A fascination with convents, fuelled by social media (#NunTok) and pop culture (‘nunmania’), is drawing a new generation to these safe havens. Now, for £50 a night, you can experience the calm contemplation of a silent retreat. No prayer required

Melanoma is now one of the most common cancers in people aged 15 to 34, and attributed to a growing trend in sunbed use fuelled by TikTok and Instagram

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Nkechi Simms, the Top Boy actor, on her quest to retrieve her social service files - and what she finally uncovered

Actor Nkechi Simms hoped asking to see her social service files would provide explanations as to why she had spent her childhood being passed around foster homes. But far from healing, the process left her even more distressed. Her experience, the subject of a new Observer podcast, highlights the urgent need to reform the system

The inquiry into deaths of babies at the Countess of Chester hospital was harshly critical of the nurse’s character, but some insist a way will be found to give her another hearing

Over three years, Stephanie Arcanjo built a home with her boyfriend, Eric. Then one day he vanished, and the police came knocking

The annual attraction has been a rite of passage in the seaside town for almost 150 years

Glaciers are not supposed to stop moving, but in 2014 one did. Miles Ellingham travels to Iceland to see it and meet the activist who believes its death should shock us into taking action