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Rapper Dwagie/大支's ode to the front-line workers fighting COVID-19 in Taiwan. More on how Taiwan's kept the number of cases so low (only 47 despite close proximity to China) from a public health perspective and what Taiwan can teach the world about fighting the coronavirus.
posted by storytam at 7:08 PM PST - 16 comments

Mise en place is a French culinary phrase which refers to the setup required before cooking. It is often used in professional kitchens to refer to organizing the ingredients that a cook will require for the menu items s/he expects to prepare during a shift.
It is also the name of a new video series from Eater (so far only 6 episodes) about some behind the scenes at 2 and 3 Michelin-starred restaurants. Start with the one about Jean-Georges Vongerichten.
posted by growabrain at 3:45 PM PST - 11 comments

How many puppies fit in a bucket?
posted by clawsoon at 1:46 PM PST - 48 comments

Found: a two gram dinosaur that was the same size of Cuba's Bee Hummingbird, the smallest bird in the world.
posted by y2karl at 12:57 PM PST - 17 comments

Chindogu are inventions that defy concise explanation. They aren't useful. But they aren't completely useless either. Their creator, Kenji Kawakami, describes them as "un-useless." [more inside]
posted by Etrigan at 12:53 PM PST - 24 comments

Follow in your books and repeat after me as we learn our next word in German: Hamsterkäufe, pronounced thusly. "The term describes the act of panic buying in bulk, like a hamster packs its cheeks full of food out of fear of hanging about to eat food, or fear that they won’t come across more food later on."
posted by mojohand at 12:52 PM PST - 33 comments

A Dataset is a Worldview: a slightly expanded version of a talk given by Hannah Davis at the Library of Congress in September 2019.
posted by cgc373 at 11:31 AM PST - 4 comments

A Stanford researcher and his team evaluated 35 studies of the effectiveness of AA and found that the fellowship helps more people acheive sobriety than therapy does. [more inside]
posted by hanov3r at 10:33 AM PST - 32 comments

StayTheFuckHome is a website advocating that if governments are failing to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, that citizens do their part. [more inside]
posted by larrybob at 9:44 AM PST - 967 comments

“ LuLaRoe is now facing a $49 million lawsuit from its old supplier (LuLaRoe countersued the supplier for $1 billion) and a class-action lawsuit from angry customers alleging they were sold defective clothing they couldn’t return. Another $4.5 million lawsuit was filed in California in November 2019 on behalf of a group of consultants, who are alleging LuLaRoe is running an illegal pyramid scheme. The state of Washington is also suing the company for operating a pyramid scheme. Last fall, the company laid off all 167 workers in their Corona, California, warehouse and permanently closed it.” Millennial Women Made LuLaRoe Billions. Then They Paid The Price. (Buzzfeed News)
posted by The Whelk at 8:09 AM PST - 40 comments

How to travel with a goldfish (and other assorted items)
posted by freshwater at 7:05 AM PST - 26 comments

Peter Ruggiero redesigns airports for a living. Hear him talk about the history of airport design and the plans to redesign LaGuardia. (SLYT)
posted by dinty_moore at 6:45 AM PST - 10 comments

I come to bury COVID-19, not to praise it.
The evil that viruses do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with its victim's bones;

Folding@Home has started releasing work units to help fight COVID-19. [more inside]
posted by Your Childhood Pet Rock at 6:23 AM PST - 32 comments