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MIXED! Stories of Mixed Race Californians. “People are defining you according to this boundary, that you have to be ‘this much’ this,” said Fulbeck. “You have to speak this language. You have to take off your shoes, whatever it is. It's like if you're going to go off those definitions, then you're going to be in a world of hurt. You have to find your own way to define yourself."
posted by spamandkimchi at 5:43 PM PST - 18 comments

Test film of USAF MOL mock up and ZERO- G shower. (slyt)
posted by clavdivs at 4:31 PM PST - 14 comments

A boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly, enough to drive a nervous man distracted. Yet was there a sort of indefinite, half-attained, unimaginable sublimity about it that fairly froze you to it, till you involuntarily took an oath with yourself to find out what that marvellous painting meant. Ever and anon a bright, but, alas, deceptive idea would dart you through.—It’s the Black Sea in a midnight gale.—It’s the unnatural combat of the four primal elements.—It’s a blasted heath.—It’s a Hyperborean winter scene.—It’s the breaking-up of the icebound stream of Time. But at last all these fancies yielded to that one portentous something in the picture’s midst. That once found out, and all the rest were plain. But stop; does it not bear a faint resemblance to a gigantic fish? even the great leviathan himself? from Chaos Bewitched: Moby-Dick and AI by Eigil zu Tage-Ravn
posted by chavenet at 3:06 PM PST - 14 comments

All the art in Animal Crossing...in person One man's mission. Fingers crossed he doesn't find any forgeries.
posted by PussKillian at 12:25 PM PST - 13 comments

Many slammed the account on social media for what they saw as mocking the athletes and downplaying their accomplishments, describing it as "disrespectful," "evil," "gross" and "ableism for views." There have been calls for the firing of whoever is behind it.
posted by Etrigan at 10:23 AM PST - 18 comments

Tucker Carlson out at Fox News [CNN] "Fox News said that Carlson’s last show was Friday, April 21."
posted by hippybear at 8:54 AM PST - 308 comments

Half a cup a day, or is there something wrong with the study? "Could the idea that ice cream is metabolically protective be true? It would be pretty bonkers. Still, there are at least a few points in its favor. For one, ice cream’s glycemic index, a measure of how rapidly a food boosts blood sugar, is lower than that of brown rice. [...holy shit. --S.] “There’s this perception that ice cream is unhealthy, but it’s got fat, it’s got protein, it’s got vitamins. It’s better for you than bread,” Mozaffarian said. “Given how horrible the American diet is, it’s very possible that if somebody eats ice cream and eats less starch … it could actually protect against diabetes.” [more inside]
posted by Nancy Lebovitz at 8:00 AM PST - 56 comments

TLDR: smoothies ok We compared the postprandial glycemic response in 20 young, healthy college students (12 female, 8 male) after consuming whole fruit vs. blended fruit. The fruit included gala apple, with the seeds removed, and blackberries. We used a repeated measures two-way ANOVA with fruit treatment as the within-subject variable, sex as the between-subjects factor, and glucose maximum, glucose incremental area under the curve (iAUC), and 60 min glucose as dependent variables. Glucose maximum and glucose iAUC were significantly lower (p < 0.05) in blended fruit compared to whole fruit and 60 min glucose was marginally significantly lower (p = 0.057) in blended fruit compared to whole fruit. [Lisa T. Crummett and Riley J. Grosso in Nutrients]. [more inside]
posted by bq at 6:47 AM PST - 21 comments

Banned Book Book Club [via mefi projects "Displays information about a book that has been banned in American schools 2021-2022, alongside a readable preview of most books (on desktop only) and a link to buy it. Reload to see another one.]"
posted by Paul Slade at 5:30 AM PST - 14 comments

How to Make Friends Making friends easily is less about accomplishing certain actions than inhabiting a kind of persona. [more inside]
posted by misskaz at 5:03 AM PST - 50 comments

Worble World is the latest full-length neo-80s synth skate video from the band Cobra Man and the goofy, oddball Worble skate crew. Catchy tunes, lots of big gaps, weird ramps, street grabs, general goofing off, and a full part from Manramp, this put a giant grin on my face, maybe it will for you too.
posted by Dysk at 3:30 AM PST - 11 comments

Hello, here is your free thread for the week! [more inside]
posted by taz at 2:13 AM PST - 88 comments

Teachers nationwide are flummoxed by students’ new chess obsession: The fad, fueled by social media stars, has left teachers divided between displeasure and delight

Across the country, students from second grade to senior year have stumbled across a new obsession, which is, in fact, a centuries-old game. Interviews with teachers and students in eight states paint a picture of captivated students squeezing games in wherever and whenever they can: at lunch, at recess and illicitly during lessons, a phenomenon that is at once bemusing, frustrating and delighting teachers. Data from Chess.com, whose usership is the highest it’s ever been, and anecdotal evidence nationwide suggest a fervid, growing base of young users. This month’s U.S. Chess Federation National High School Championships in D.C. had to add overflow rooms to accommodate a record 1,750 attendees — spurring fears of a shortage of participation medals.

posted by Pachylad at 1:58 AM PST - 46 comments

Federal government makes Australian citizenship easier for Kiwis to obtain. Ahead of a visit by New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, Anthony Albanese unveils a new direct pathway to citizenship that will make it easier for about 350,000 Kiwis living in Australia to vote and receive government benefits.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 12:56 AM PST - 6 comments