January 25, 2021
do the damn thing girl
Nia Dennis - 2021 Floor Exercise (1-23-21) "This routine definitely reflects everything that I am today as a woman," Dennis says in a press conference after the meet. "And of course I had to incorporate a lot of parts of my culture. I wanted to give a tribute to my father, he was Greek, he was in fraternities and stepping is really big so I wanted to incorporate that. I wanted to have a dance party because that’s my personality and of course I had to shout out LA because we out here, UCLA." [more inside]
Let's watch Sodium and Chlorine do a Line Dance (NaCl) (table salt)
Two novel techniques, atomic-resolution real-time video and conical carbon nanotube confinement, allow researchers to view never-before-seen details about crystal formation.Crystal close up | The University of Tokyo [more inside]
If you followed this thread, you're both a crazy person and I appreciate
Twitter user @bzotto posts a really long thread about manually retrieving data from a 5.25" floppy disk from the Apple ][ era. Here's a threadreader link. Enjoy the 80s nerdiness!
All marriage is gay marriage now. There is no need to file new paperwork
STAR TREK: ACID PARTY
How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted
"Mass quarantine has represented a final fulfillment of the pursuit of nothingness, particularly for the privileged classes who could adapt to it in such relative comfort" [NYT] For years, an aesthetic mode of nothingness has been ascendant — a literally nihilistic attitude visible in all realms of culture, one intent on the destruction of extraneity in all its forms, up to and including noise, decoration, possessions, identities and face-to-face interaction.
It Belongs in a Museum!
Indiana Jones with My Cat is not the first film parody featuring OwlKitty. Pulp Fiction, American Psycho, Ghost, and many more on OwlKitty's YouTube Channel. [more inside]
A Chinese Gazetteer of Foreign Lands
This country is filled with light and is where the sun goes down. In the evening, when the sun enters the city, it makes a rumbling sound louder than thunder. So they always station a thousand men at the city gates to blow trumpets and beat gongs and drums to drown out the noise of the sun. If not, then pregnant women and small children would die of fright upon hearing the sun.—From the Zhufan Zhi, a geography of Asia, the east and north coasts of Africa, and bits of Europe, written in 1225 CE by Zhao Rukuo. Part one has been translated by Prof. Shao-yun Yang of Denison University.
Just pull out “Bizarre Love Triangle," and bam, like instant dance party
How Can I Explain An Incomplete Oral History of Asian Americans and our Ineffable Love of New Wave (Esther Wang, Jezebel)
But What Do They Know, Anyway
According to two recent papers, the Dunning-Kruger Effect is probably not real. (Previously and previouslier.)
Take a Walk on the Wild Side.
Flamboyant excess: the art of Steven Arnold the 'Prince' of Dali's Court of Miracles.
Less is NOT more, MORE is more, less is less.
His work consisted of drawings, paintings, rock and film poster art, makeup design, costume design, set design, photography and film and The Cockettes.
(Probably NSFW in some environments)
Less is NOT more, MORE is more, less is less.
His work consisted of drawings, paintings, rock and film poster art, makeup design, costume design, set design, photography and film and The Cockettes.
(Probably NSFW in some environments)
Editor's Note: Why a Recipe Is More Than a Recipe
The work of food media is inherently political because you're making culture easily consumed, and you're trying to present it in a way that's culturally conscious and thoughtful. A lot of times it works and sometimes it doesn't, and there's a lot of media that doesn't hit that mark. I would love for readers, your readers and food media at large, to think about is how recipes and food are inherently political. The work of sharing food is sharing culture.
"In the January issue of Food & Wine, we published a story and recipe for Mole Verde from Norma Listman and Saqib Keval, the chefs and owners of Masala y Maíz in Mexico City. And we made a mistake. When we photographed the recipe in our studio, our team approved the use of hot sauce and limes as garnishes for visual contrast—additions that are neither traditional nor suggested by the chefs." [more inside]
Will There Be a Trump Presidential Library? Don’t Count On It
Will There Be a Trump Presidential Library? Don’t Count On It (Politico): "It’s not because he doesn’t read books (presidential libraries aren’t that kind of library), and not because his presidency ended in a shocking insurrection at the U.S. Capitol fanned by Trump himself, resulting in a second impeachment. Other presidents have stepped down in borderline disgrace—Richard Nixon resigned; Herbert Hoover lost in a landslide, blamed for the Great Depression—and still got their libraries. Trump likely won’t even manage to build a private library, such as the one Nixon finally created for himself. Or the “center” for which Barack Obama has had great difficulty even breaking ground, which will lack a government presence, a research facility, or archives. Presidential libraries are complicated. And if you understand how they work—and how Trump himself works—it’s nearly impossible to imagine him actually pulling it off." Related: National Archives launches website for Trump Presidential Library (Politico); Trump to flee Washington and seek rehabilitation in a MAGA oasis: Florida (The Washington Post)
The Pill Bottle Project
Kait Sanchez on how TikTok users crowdsourced and manufactured a new pill bottle design that makes it easier for people with Parkinson's disease to dispense tiny pills (The Verge). "[Choi found the device] not only cuts down the amount of time it takes him to grab a pill, but also significantly reduces the frustration and anxiety that usually come with it. Stress makes the symptoms of Parkinson’s worse, but with this bottle, “the anxiety level goes away,” he says. “The time it takes, and your risk of spilling these pills out on the floor in public, it’s almost zero.”
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me
With Europe and the United States taking strict measures to keep out migrants and asylum-seekers, finding safety abroad had become more difficult. But a few South American countries had relatively lax entry requirements, busting open a route through the Americas. Unlike the passage across the Mediterranean, few images existed on the internet of migrants who had drowned or been murdered crossing the Darién Gap. Benita decided to fly to Ecuador. On a layover in the Istanbul Airport, she found some Cameroonians who told her that after Ecuador, they were planning to go to the U.S. “I asked them, ‘Can you walk there?’ They said, ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘Huh? So after Ecuador is the United States?’ They said, ‘Yes, you will just walk. You pass through the river, you enter the United States.’” [more inside]
Shut up and dance
Dance 10000 shows a young girl dancing through her day, part of a Swedish project to get kids moving.
you will absolutely positively have to break up with actual white people
Tressie McMillan Cottom (sociologist, writer, UNC professor, and 2020 MacArthur Fellow; previously) on the glut of recent stories “about how the recent Presidential contest slash white supremacist insurrection slash Trump legacy has torn apart many families”: Breaking Up With White Supremacy Was Always The End Game. [more inside]
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