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For many, it's her second album. (It's really her fourth.) Featuring a cover which lines out the Eight Precepts Of Buddhism, Alanis Morrisette's 1998 album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie proceeds to break all of them across it's phenomenal 71 minute length, and it does so with still surprising wit and charm and transparency of soul. Side A: Front Row, Baba, Thank U [video], Are You Still Mad [more inside]
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A preschool teacher installs a "tattle phone" for kids to tattle into, instead of coming to her. A parent who works for This American Life records it (with permission of everyone involved). Transcript
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1,550 years ago, someone ate a rattlesnake whole—and we have poo to prove it [Ars Technica] “Sometime around 450 CE in the Chihuahuan Desert, one brave soul ate a whole rattlesnake raw. If you think that takes guts, imagine passing an 11mm (0.43 inch) fang afterward. The desiccated coprolite—archaeologists’ term for ancient poop—contained the scales and bones of the snake along with remnants of a small rodent and an assortment of edible desert plants. It’s a great example of how coprolites can give archaeologist a direct (sometimes unnervingly direct) look at what ancient people ate.”
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A new documentary, Killing Patient Zero, sheds more light on the erroneous demonization of Gaëtan Dugas: "Based on Richard A. McKay’s landmark book, Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic (2017), the film features 38 interviews with friends and colleagues of Dugas and [Randy] Shilts, as well as doctors, scientists and gay men and women who lived through the epidemic, notably the sardonic Fran Lebowitz. They include [William] Darrow, who laments how his study was skewed, and Michael Denneny, Shilts’ editor and publisher, who takes the blame for igniting the Patient Zero hysteria with a shameless publicity ploy to sell And the Band Played On." Killing Patient Zero: Official Trailer. [more inside]
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Michael Leggett, a former lead designer for Gmail and the creator of Inbox has made a Chrome extension that strips out the bells and whistles from Gmail's recent redesign: simple.fyi/gmail
Mark Wilson has a little puff piece about the project in Fast Company: "The former lead designer of Gmail just fixed Gmail on his own"
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Here is Yehudi Menuhin playing Bruch Violin concerto no 1, 1961. SLYT
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When Findus was Little and Disappeared - one of the animated shorts based on Sven Nordqvist's series of storybooks about an old man and his cat and their life in the country. The animated series was a joint German and Swedish production, and later appeared in many other languages. [more inside]
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The metrics of backpacks. A bay area native's account of the outsider's precarious view from the inside of the tech industry.
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