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Fast Company: Two Ex-Googlers Want To Make Bodegas And Mom-And-Pop Corner Stores Obsolete — Called Bodega, this startup installs unmanned pantry boxes in apartments, offices, dorms, and gyms. It promises convenience, but also represents competition for many mom-and-pop stores. [more inside]
posted by tonycpsu at 9:48 PM PST - 145 comments

Fran Blanche shares with us about one of her favorite things: the 45rpm record!
posted by vespabelle at 9:33 PM PST - 15 comments

An insatiable and invasive green monster is eating the picturesque bayous and rare wetlands of Caddo Lake, on the Texas-Louisiana border.
The Creature From The Green Lagoon [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns at 8:52 PM PST - 4 comments

In 2004 Rafi B. Levy released his first solo cd, Desert Cruising in a Dub State of Mind. That cd was a mix of Latin, Reggae, Middle Eastern, guitar instrumentals. In 2009 he moved to Seville, Spain to study Flamenco and spent three years emersed in the music. In 2014, after deciding to stay with the electric guitar, he released the album Uplift Your Soul. I just happened to see him today playing on the Santa Monica Pier and I wanted to share. [more inside]
posted by Room 641-A at 6:28 PM PST - 7 comments

"The solid mass of congealed fat, wet wipes, nappies, oil and condoms formed in the Victorian-era tunnel in Whitechapel, London." The 'fatberg' is 250 meters long and estimated to weigh over 130 metric tons. An eight-member team will break up the fatberg with high-pressure hoses.
posted by needled at 5:35 PM PST - 74 comments

...most everyone (including the people that made the show) assumed Survivor would be a fad — something akin to a pet rock or a mood ring — and would burn bright yet burn out quickly. Instead, it launched an entire genre of reality TV and still, 18 years later, remains the most-viewed television show on Wednesday nights. With season 35 —that is not a typo — debuting on Sept. 27 when CBS launches the Heroes v. Healers v. Hustlers installment, I thought it time to pay tribute to one of television's biggest mainstays with 35 reasons to love Survivor.

Dalton Ross with 35 Reasons to Love "Survivor" in Honor of the 35th Season
posted by The Gooch at 5:19 PM PST - 26 comments

Top 10 most re-watched episodes of Star Trek on Netflix [more inside]
posted by kittensofthenight at 5:13 PM PST - 82 comments

From the stately (and infamous) Little Rock Central High to the Art Deco stylings of Will Rogers High, Architectural Digest picks The Most Beautiful Public High School in Every State in America.
posted by mediareport at 1:52 PM PST - 53 comments

This is the Pizza Hut I remember. It was a destination restaurant for a moderately expensive family dinner, or a date.
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"In America, the world’s richest country, hookworm, a parasitic disease found in areas of extreme poverty, is rampant, the first study of its kind in modern times shows." (SLGuardian) [more inside]
posted by cooker girl at 12:41 PM PST - 16 comments

In july Jerermy Scahill interviewed Alfred McCoy, Harrington professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of “The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade.”
In a wide-ranging interview, they discuss Trump and Russia, the history of CIA interference in elections around the world, the Iran-Contra scandal, the CIA and the crack-cocaine epidemic, U.S. proxy wars, narcotrafficking in Afghanistan, and much more.
Transcript and podcast.
The Collapse of Empire is also acknowleged by the Pentagon but not by others.
posted by adamvasco at 11:46 AM PST - 41 comments

It’s hard to imagine that any high school would require boys to swim naked today. But for more than 50 years (even until 1980, by some accounts), this was standard policy. Girls were required to wear simple, single-color suits, usually of wool.
posted by stillmoving at 11:22 AM PST - 67 comments

So many of us want to get involved but aren't sure what our roles should be. How do I as a Asian American straight man engage in the reality of Anti-Blackness and struggle? How do I as a white queer woman stand humbly and bravely in the indigenous struggle? How can I as a black woman share safely about the stories I face on a daily basis in the broad movement of all women in our country? How do we understand those working with us -- the people we see marching with and for our communities? [more inside]
posted by infinitefloatingbrains at 11:07 AM PST - 8 comments

How to live on a climate changed world: Can we move from a Class IV ("thick biosphere") to a Class V planet: Planets in which an energy-intensive technological species establishes a sustainable form of cooperation with the biosphere that increases the productivity of both? [more inside]
posted by yoga at 11:03 AM PST - 8 comments

The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse. And almost nobody is paying attention.
posted by MrVisible at 10:23 AM PST - 30 comments

What does it mean to have a 2018 spring/summer line in dogswear? The Guardian's Mona Chalabi journeyed to a former synagogue in Manhattan to find out.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 9:50 AM PST - 10 comments

Since 2004, the Brainwashed Podcast has been delivering an engaging mix of independent musics. [more inside]
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The story of Tom Corbally, a private investigator whose career crisscrossed continents and spanned decades, is its own secret history of the 20th century.
posted by ellieBOA at 9:34 AM PST - 11 comments

The Indexer is published by the Society of Indexers in the UK. It includes articles on the history of indexing, discussion of how to index names from around the world, ongoing reviews of indexes published elsewhere, and, of course, an index. All issues/articles older than 3 years old are available for free.
posted by carter at 9:34 AM PST - 8 comments

If you were ever curious how Andri Ragettli trains to do this, well, wonder no more.(dlyt)
posted by selfnoise at 6:54 AM PST - 17 comments

Colin Kaepernick Has a Job: Inside the past, present and future of this country's most inconvenient truth, by way of the most controversial black man in America
posted by OmieWise at 5:39 AM PST - 33 comments

Metroid: Samus Returns [Polygon] “Metroid: Samus Returns [YouTube][Trailer] is the remake no one was asking for. Sandwiched between the birth of the franchise and the beloved Super Metroid, Metroid 2: The Return of Samus was the first portable entry in the series. And it was a very solid, if safe, follow-up to the original game. Which is why no one was really demanding that it be remade. But thank god it was. Metroid: Samus Returns reforges the broad concept of the Game Boy original while adding modern gameplay mechanics and the best graphics yet seen on the 3DS, making it an essential part of the Metroid catalog.” [more inside]
posted by Fizz at 5:12 AM PST - 28 comments