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5 American teenagers showcased their drum skills in their high school talent show-- (slyt) Teen walks onstage for talent show. When friends join, routine is unlike anything you've likely seen.
BOOM Baby! [more inside]
posted by shockingbluamp at 10:00 PM PST - 24 comments

ResuREXion on Mt Washington (SLInstagram video)
posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 6:45 PM PST - 15 comments

Samuel Butler refused to take sides. ‘It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another,’ he quipped, ‘and so make only two people miserable and not four.’
posted by Chrysostom at 1:40 PM PST - 16 comments

Zelda: Home Automation - Zelda: Ocarina of Time [YouTube] YouTube tinkerer Allen Pan, created a smart home automation system based off the Zelda series using the ocarina from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. [via: The Verge]
posted by Fizz at 1:01 PM PST - 10 comments

"The only way to stay sane under its light is to not look at it, to almost pretend that it doesn’t exist. All the old rites and superstitions that once warded off mystical evils have been condensed into one single command, so vast and monolithic we’ve forgotten that it’s even possible to disobey: Don’t look directly at the sun."
posted by griphus at 11:09 AM PST - 71 comments

What started as a drink for social gatherings of nobility and the wealthy spread, and by the 1800s, the British were big fans of coffee with densely planted plantations in Ceylon satisfied their desires for caffeine. But then came coffee rust (previously), and soon after, so did a Scotish grocer, Thomas Lipton, who had Camellia sinensis shrubs planted to replace blighted Coffea trees. Given such a notable history, you would imagine other produce empires might learn some lessons from reliance on a monoculture, but not so the United Fruit Company, who replaced the popular but Panama disease-plighted Gros Michel with the look-alike Cavendish. Around a decade ago, the Cavendish first faced a similar threat to the Gros Michel: humans made the perfect banana, and soon it'll be gone. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief at 9:18 AM PST - 55 comments

British conspiracy thriller Utopia [ previously / fanfare ] aired from 2013-14 and won an International Emmy for Best Drama. The Media Experiences project recently released the results of their production & audience research [pdf] into the cult drama. Drawing on over 70 interviews, the report highlights the show's transgressive aesthetics and its moral questions as appealing to an international audience that's remained in ongoing conversation with the show and its themes. In illustration, fanmade video essay "Utopia: Reinventing Onscreen Violence" analyzes how the show disrupts usual cinematic narratives of violence and stokes anxiety by disorienting binaries. (Links contain graphic violence & spoilers for the entire show.)
posted by mixedmetaphors at 9:17 AM PST - 12 comments

via Sesame Street: "We’re very excited to announce that a new friend will be joining us on Sesame Street! Our new friend is Julia; she is a 4-year-old with autism! " "Julia started last year as a character in Sesame's books and digital offerings. Sesame decided on a two-fold mission for the related campaign "See Amazing in All Children," to give children with autism and their families someone to identify with — and those that don't a window into their world." [more inside]
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 9:05 AM PST - 25 comments

The absolute best thing about each of the 50 states. Yes, it's Thrillist clickbait. But at least it's on one page, and relatively snark-free (sorry Florida).
posted by Etrigan at 8:58 AM PST - 110 comments

Theresa May to trigger Article 50 on 29^th March: “Theresa May will trigger article 50...the prime minister’s spokesman has confirmed.” [more inside]
posted by pharm at 7:54 AM PST - 212 comments

It may be a F.U.W., but this video by Jussie Smollett nails it in many, many ways. (SLYT)
posted by HuronBob at 4:29 AM PST - 8 comments