MinnPost Picks: on vanishing glaciers, singing washing machines, and Christian Pulisic

“Chronicling the last years of a dying North Cascades glacier,” The Everett Herald A scientist in Washington state has measured the melting of Columbia Glacier in the state's North Cascades mountain range. Within decades, he predicts it will be gone. The Everett Herald has the story of his research, which details how the glacier has lost a third of its mass in the time he's studied it. — Walker Orenstein, workforce and environment reporter “Why Washing Machines Are Learning to Play the Harp,” The Atlantic Notice your new washing machine sounds a lot less jarring than the old one? It's no accident. Appliance makers are hiring consultants to make the machines in your home sound prettier so you're happier, you bond with the machine and you stick with the brand. — Greta Kaul, data reporter “Alabama takes aim at citizenship in lawsuit over congressional seats,” The Washington Post If undocumented residents of states in the U.S. are not used to reapportion Congress after the next Census, Alabama would avoid losing a seat. That's why the state is suing to block inclusion of such residents. But three other states would also benefit - at least as measured by congressional clout, according to an analysis by Ted Mellnik and Shelly Tan of the Washington Post. Montana would gain a seat and Ohio and Minnesota would avoid losing a seat as both are now projected to do. — Peter Callaghan, state government reporter “The $73 Million Man,” Slate If you know any American soccer fans, forgive them if they’re a little twitchy this week: cherubic onetime Pennsylvanian Christian Pulisic, the most significant export to England since the lend-lease program, finally made his debut for Chelsea, one of the Premier League’s most prominent franchises. He did fine, though as Eric Betts points out in this piece, that hasn’t stopped stateside soccer-watchers — a cohort not exactly know for taking the long view —from fretting whether Pulisic’s play can ever justify the pile of cash the club paid to get him. — Andy Putz, editor

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