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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink “Meltdown May”, which leads them to consider all aspects of melting, from whether this too, too sallied flesh would melt, to stopping the world to melt with you, to nuclear meltdowns, to tuna melts. They complicate the standard picture of “solid good, melted bad,” and propose that the cure to our many social ills is the restoration of a vanished social mesoscale which can contain all ingredients in the melting pot.

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Further Reading

• “Meltdown May is Finally Here” (MEL Magazine, Medium)
• “melt” (Etymology Online)
• “Jupiter’s heart is dissolving” (NewScientist)
• “Sonos says its controversial app redesign took ‘courage’” (The Verge)
• “The Best Slow-Cooked Bolognese Sauce Recipe” (Serious Eats)
• “Does Vodka Sauce Really Need Vodka?” (Serious Eats)
• Patois (Wikipedia)
• “Homestyle Bibimbap” (Serious Eats)
• Latent Heat (Wikipedia)
• Bruce Davison (IMDb)
• Modern English, “I Melt with You” (Genius)