January 11, 2022

Two sleeps

The forgotten medieval habit of 'two sleeps' “ For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?”
posted by dhruva at 9:47 PM PST - 95 comments

They weren't considered a flight risk

Dozens of ostriches run on main roads after fleeing from farm in China
posted by ActingTheGoat at 8:37 PM PST - 13 comments

They Don’t Make Heterosexuals Like Pamela Des Barres Any More

One woman sleeps with hordes of terrible men, and has a wonderful time doing so.
posted by Hypatia at 11:16 AM PST - 57 comments

Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows

(CW - rats) Dickens picked up on the qualities of HEROrats a while back, it seems. Magawa was a very fine fellow and even won a gold medal for being a fine stealthy and secret public servant. More about the organisation who trained Magawa. More about Magawa's folks.
posted by Martha My Dear Prudence at 10:11 AM PST - 13 comments

Meditation: Teachers and Technology

Meditation is an ancient technology. Can we hack it? This post will introduce you to the recent rise of consumer-grade at-home wearables aimed at assisting your meditation practice; and also list out some prominent western teachers and researchers who have adapted the ancient into the modern. [more inside]
posted by St. Peepsburg at 9:57 AM PST - 50 comments

The Exquisite Craft of Mary Delany

"Mary Delany’s stunning works are a remarkable combination of art and science. Often mistaken for watercolours, they are in fact carefully constructed paper collages, or ‘mosaicks’ as she called them. Surprisingly, the story starts when the artist was 72, after she noticed the similarity between a geranium and a piece of red paper that was on her bedside table. The realisation prompted Delany to pick up a pair of scissors and imitate the petals in paper." [more inside]
posted by jedicus at 8:31 AM PST - 20 comments

I am made of poison

Wigu, a webcomic by Jeffrey Rowland, turned 20 years old this month. Rowland has written other good comics too and founded Topatoco.
posted by curious nu at 8:07 AM PST - 18 comments

Kitties v. Elon Musk

My money is on the kitties. [A tiny tiny link, just one twitter photo but it's cute and funny and I'm tired of real news.]
posted by JanetLand at 5:28 AM PST - 32 comments

Sentir Tudo de Todas as Maneiras

Inventing an avant-garde movement and its principal protagonists, then attempting to institutionalize the movement with literary criticism written by yet more imagined personae: it seems, at first, insane. Indeed, Pessoa feared for his sanity as a youth, having watched his paternal grandmother lose her grip on reality. But as a student of fin-de-siècle theories that posited a correlation between artistic genius and mental degeneracy, Pessoa decided his mind was one thus afflicted. Regardless of its cause, Pessoa’s mad strategy succeeded. from Conceptual Personae - The many imagined lives of Fernando Pessoa [more inside]
posted by chavenet at 4:18 AM PST - 3 comments

In Post-Soviet Russia, The Simpsons Jokes Laugh At You!

Best JoKeS Russian Dubbed Simpson's Treehouse of Horror XXVIII Pez dispenser intro

Best JoKeS Russian Dubbed Lego Simpsons action [more inside]
posted by y2karl at 3:38 AM PST - 12 comments

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