June 26, 2018
New National Near Earth Object Preparedness Plan Released in the US
In planetary defense news, a new National Near Earth Object Preparedness Plan has been released in the United States. [more inside]
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The ISFJ Assassin.
Find your post-apocalyptic Myers-Briggs type
or just keep reading the sidebar articles.
Find your post-apocalyptic Myers-Briggs type
or just keep reading the sidebar articles.
No other employee was named in the contract.
Ten years after retiring, Cubs clubhouse manager Yosh Kawano died Monday [EU unfriendly], age 98. He worked at Wrigley Field for nearly 65 years, witnessed 37 managers and his continued employment was infamously guaranteed when the Wrigley family sold the Cubs in the 1980s. [more inside]
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For the first time in 35 years, the Elks are growing. Average member age is down from 69 to 61. Membership is exploding in San Francisco, the Florida Keys, North Carolina, and dozens of other areas, including the bedroom communities of New Jersey, where Eli Manning was just voted to membership. Each of those lodges has a story of where that growth is coming from, yet the impulse remains constant: seeking connections, with people who are not necessarily like them, in dusty old buildings with $2 drafts and animal heads hanging over the doorway.Anne Helen Petersen on the millennial resurgence of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Getting men off ledges
Lethal Weapon is a cop show about the literally explosive fallout of men excusing themselves from the work of being emotionally productive in the shadow of their survival.It’s exactly the kind of story men don’t need. By Brandon O’Brien.
The unintended consequences of convenient smart home technology
Domestic abusers are using the likes of internet-connected thermostats, doorbells, speakers, lights, and other smart home devices to establish their power or harass their partners. One woman alleged that her air conditioning turned off without her controlling it, another woman alleged her front door lock code frequently changed, and another alleged that her doorbell repeatedly rang when no one was there. One woman told the New York Times that she resorted to pulling her smart thermostat out of the wall. [more inside]
Rethinking the legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder
A branch of the ALA has removed Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from an award for children's literature. Laura Ingalls Wilder was (and is) beloved for her landmark Little House on the Prairie series, but her books have rightfully been decried for their racism against Native Americans, among other things. The ALA has reassured their constituency that this is not intended as censorship or meant to suppress discussion of these works. Conservatives are, predictably, outraged. [more inside]
“Navarre’s own Ecce Homo.”
“For 500 years, the painted wooden effigy of St George that adorns a chapel in the Spanish town of Estella has been locked in a silent struggle against his old foe, the dragon. Today, however, the saint faces a different battle thanks to a feat of restoration that has prompted comparisons with the infamous “Ecce Homo Monkey Christ” and exasperated the mayor. [...] The restoration is believed to have been carried out by a handicrafts teacher at the request of the parish authorities of the Church of St Michael.” via: [The Guardian]
This expedition is already shaping up to be a gas
Exploration Vessel Nautilus (previously here, here, and here) and her research team are currently exploring the Cascadia Margin for methane seep and hydrate sites and their ecosystems off the coast of Washington, Oregon, and northern California as part of their 2018 expedition. Follow along via the E/V Nautilus' 24/7 live video feed and social media channels. [more inside]
Quietly, by hand
Need 8 minutes to calm down? Watch a short, quiet, idyllic video of Li Zikai building a cat-shaped brick-and-clay oven from scratch. (slfb video) [more inside]
On chicken tenders
“There’s no narrative to chicken tenders, there’s no performance. That is the substance of their allure: If you’re ordering them, you don’t have to look at the menu. You don’t have to think about whether you’ve been posting a lot of pasta lately or whether it’s kind of passé at this point to go for a kale salad. Chicken tenders aren’t cool. They’re not retro. They’re not funny. They ask nothing of you, and they don’t say anything about you. They are two things, and two things only: perfect, and delicious. That’s enough. That’s everything.“
Gorgeous Staircase Murals
TeacherTube
TeacherTube is a free resource for educators, students and parents to share and watch instructional videos. Launched in 2007 as a YouTube alternative that is "a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners," the site is now home to over a million user-generated videos on dozens of topics, many of which are used as teaching tools in schools and libraries across the United States. [more inside]
It's late but let's see if we can make this interesting
MeFi's own mhoye has a question: What is the least plausible story about yourself that's true? It has gone viral, with thousands of replies and quote-tweets. [more inside]
tyger, tyger, burning bright
Smoke Signals: I think it's a fine example of the oral tradition.
Twenty years ago today, Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds-the-Fire first traveled from their homes [trailer] on the Coeur D'Alene Indian Reservation in Plummer, Idaho, down to Phoenix, Arizona. This journey was adapted from the stories in Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, particularly "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona" [PDF with questions for discussion]. The movie was unique, as an all-Native American production: producers, director, screenwriter, actors and technicians. What Smoke Signals means 20 years later by Ellen C. Caldwell, who notes that "the film is constantly playing with dismantling and challenging dominant Native stereotypes." [more inside]
Bombing
After three are killed by a train in London, graffiti artists on why they risk their lives. Also Vandalism or art?
"video games... i love you"
Hareton Splimby (aka Harris Bomberguy, aka hbomberguy) discusses Ctrl+Alt+Del... plus also Penny Arcade, The Room, Sonic the Hedgehog, gamer culture, puppies, Jack Thompson, Visceral Games, "it's just a video game," making art that says more than you thought it did, popular art as a means of cultural self-reflection and the rejection of art as indicative of an unwillingness to participate in that self-reflection, and some very silly jokes. [more inside]
Use that knowledge to change the world through fashion
Fashion Studies is the first open-access journal in fashion that celebrates multiple ways of knowing and sharing that knowledge. Published annually by Ryerson University’s Centre for Fashion Diversity and Social Change, it aims to evolve and re-imagine the interdisciplinary field of fashion studies at no cost to authors or readers. The inaugural issue is now out. [more inside]
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