March 18, 2017
Sit and relax.
Let this guy work his craft. (slyt) A cigar is a tightly-rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco leaf, rolled in a series of types and sizes, that is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the mouth. [more inside]
This Article Won’t Change Your Mind
In one particularly potent example of party trumping fact, when shown photos of Trump’s inauguration and Barack Obama’s side by side, in which Obama clearly had a bigger crowd, some Trump supporters identified the bigger crowd as Trump’s. When researchers explicitly told subjects which photo was Trump’s and which was Obama’s, a smaller portion of Trump supporters falsely said Trump’s photo had more people in it.The facts on why facts alone can’t fight false beliefs
Roll over Beethoven, make room for Johnny B. Goode
Only a few months after releasing a new album at age 90, rock legend Chuck Berry has passed away. He was one of the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.
Col. Ben Skardon march
Tomorrow Colonel Ben Skardon will participate in the Bataan Memorial Death March for the 10th time. Skardon is a survivor of the actual Bataan Death March, when about 75,000 Filipino and U.S. soldiers were surrendered to Japanese forces. Colonel Skardon is 99 years old.
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
Phillip Kremer creates disturbing and creepy portrait collages. More on Instagram and tumblr. (Unsettling portraits previously.)
Which BFFs are the best?
Which teenage best friends in literature, television, and movies are really the best? Play along in Forever Young Adult's March Madness. [more inside]
A lettuce grows in Hong Kong
Why'd you eat that leaf?
Kirby, an ode to a kitten by rap artist Aesop Rock, for his 2016 album The Impossible Kid, featuring clever rhymes, winsome puppetry, and an unbelievably cute kitten.
The Impossible Kid on Genius.com.
Behold the Precious Wings
Saori Kobayashi is best known as the composer for the Panzer Dragoon series of games and its kind-of-cousin Crimson Dragon, but in addition to numerous other soundtracks, she also produces original music albums as a solo artist and with Yumiko Takahashi (Suikoden) as "AKANE." Soaring, strange and anachronistic, Kobayashi's music blends traditional Japanese composition with electronic elements to create a dreamlike future folk music from that borderless country, Imagination. [more inside]
We'll add some happy little clouds
Did you know there's a database of all of Bob Ross's paintings from The Joy of Painting on the Internet? You do now, so no excuses! Includes some fan-made art and helpful lists of colors used, etc.
"tantalizing for what they show, but also what they don’t show"
Cornell recently digitized its Loewentheil Collection of African-American Photographs, 645 images spanning the century from the Civil War to the 1960s. These images are largely of unknown individuals, such as an elegantly dressed African-American woman from the 1870s; a late nineteenth-century man with a cane; and three small children.
(Note that there is at least one image of a lynching and others of child slave labor.)
we call it weed now
What Happens When a Priest, a Rabbi and a Gay Atheist Smoke a Joint Together? (slvideo) [more inside]
How Stores Are Designed To Fat Shame
How Stores Are Designed To Fat Shame: Store layouts often discriminate against plus-size shoppers, writes professor Kathryn Anthony. What can be done about it?
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