March 13, 2018
The first cut won't hurt at all.
A brief history of a man
Stephen Hawking, one of the great minds of our age, has passed on to the stars today at the age of 76. [more inside]
Motörhead remember me now [3lyt]
How "Thunder Road" Became a Southern-Fried Cult Phenomenon
Robert Mitchum's car-chase classic put the mountain South on the Hollywood map. On the basis of these posters with a deranged-looking Mitchum, anyone unfamiliar with the film could be forgiven for expecting a hot-rods-to-Hell opus with Mitchum playing another of his unhinged anti-heroes — a Cape Fear on wheels. Those who have actually seen Thunder Road, however, will see in these blaring broadsheets something quite at odds with this dreamy little movie, which shares many of the qualities of its star-producer-writer-uncredited director Mitchum: it’s brusque, languid, a little bedraggled, and ultimately oddly haunting [quoted from the article]. [more inside]
The Quietus' Top 40 Genre Compilation Albums
The Quietus' Top 40 Genre Compilation Albums From The Anthology of American Folk Music to Sushi 3003: A Spectacular Collection Of Japanese Clubpop, a collection of recommendations from the Quietus writers.
Let the rhythm be your guiding light
Michael Cretu didn't quite know what he was getting into when he turned into Curly M.C. and in 1990 released Enigma - MCMXC a.D [YT album, ~40m] Cassette Side A: The Voice Of Enigma, Principles Of Lust (Sadeness, Find Love, Sadeness Reprise) [The Voice Of Enigma video, Principles Of Lust video], Callas Went Away [video] [more inside]
Introducing the Millennial #Avocard
Here's everything you need to know: With the #avocard, you’ll get all the perks of the 26-30 railcard. Simply present an avocado in place of the railcard at any Virgin Trains West Coast station to get a 1/3 off our fares . Genuine offer. Actual avocado needed. [more inside]
Space... Well, It's Big
Phil Plait, astronomer and writer of the Bad Astronomy blog, has a Crash Course on Astronomy on YouTube. [more inside]
Project Veritas targets Silicon Valley
Project Veritas' unusual-and-often-illegal style of guerrilla journalism looks for conservative-bias at Twitter. Using fake job posting/interviews, cat-fishing on dating sites and other methods, they attempt to get employees to say incriminating (or editable to sound incriminating) things.
James O'Keefe previously and Project Veritas
Being a bald man sucks. Knowing you'll become one is worse
“They price it because they can”
Drug makers have raised prices on treatments for life-threatening or chronic conditions like multiple sclerosis, diabetes and cancer. In turn, insurers have shifted more of those costs onto consumers. Saddled with high deductibles and other out-of-pocket costs that expose them to a drug’s rising list price, many people are paying thousands of dollars a month merely to survive.
These are the stories of Americans living daily with the reality of high-cost drugs. And there are millions of others just like them. The Price They Pay (ProPublica, NYT)
That's right folks/it's a tumblr thread
Twitter user @ThaumPenguin has assembled a thread of remarkable Tumblr posts. For example: Brerd; Flower power; Be the one you needed.
(ThreadReader version for the Twitter-averse; h/t Phire)
"Whatever's negative that's clinging to us, 'I know we can shake it.'"
Like A Ship (title track link) by Pastor TL Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir may be one of the great lost gospel records - and one made by a duplicitous conman. Can we still enjoy something beautiful when made by someone later despicable?
Hello World
Want to view an alien planet in detail? Simple: create a telescope, send it somewhere between 51 and 185 billion miles away from Earth, turn it around, and use the Sun as a gravity lens to image another world. Focussed through our local star's Einstein Ring, the telescope would bring in enough visual information to resolve features the size of Central Park on an alien surface. [more inside]
Antisocial Media
Reddit and the struggle to detoxify the internet. How do we fix life online without limiting free speech? By Andrew Marantz for The New Yorker.
The crispy taco Vasquez sold for $.85 cost $1.17 to make
Overshadowed by barbecue in its home state, Tex-Mex is the most important, least understood regional cuisine in America
The standard narrative about Tex-Mex is that it’s an inauthentic, unartful, cheese-covered fusion, the kind of eating meant to be paired with unhealthy amounts of alcohol or to cure the effects thereof. There’s a lot of easy-melt cheese, the margaritas are made with a mix, and the salsas come from a bottle. In our snackwave food moment, Tex-Mex receives the same amount of affection and respect as a Doritos Locos taco or a microwaved burrito — a processed, comforting, lovable American monster.
Those assumptions are entirely wrong.
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