January 8, 2022
These are the Humanities of the Adamant Gambit
The Adamant Gambit is a collaborative series of ten short browser adventure games set on board a generation ship over the course of a millennium. Tips after the jump. [more inside]
New Orleans renames Robert E. Lee Blvd. for Allen Toussaint
New Orleans City Council votes unanimously to rename Robert E. Lee Blvd for legendary musician Allen Toussaint (CNN, Chris Boyette and Keith Allen) [more inside]
15 seconds, twice.
What does a bagel call its grandfather? Poppy!
How Many Bagels Does It Take to Keep a Place in Business? - The NYTimes talks to Montreal's St. Viateur and NYC's Ess-a-Bagel about keeping the dough coming in and sending the dough out
"They read scripts, yes."
Prime Time Propaganda: How the White House Secretly Hooked Network TV on its Anti-Drug Message (Salon, 2000, see also NYT and WaPo). The author of the Salon article, Daniel Forbes, would report further on this program (and other Clinton-era anti-drug propaganda efforts) before it was quietly ended by George W. Bush, who hasn't used cocaine since 1974.
Although silent, whoever shot the film was right up by the stage
Many people know the “Gimme Shelter” documentary pretty well, but there’s a lot more in this home movie. [more inside]
Until lions have their own historians...
Documentarian Georgina Savage returns to her native South Africa to document her family’s fight against rhinoceros poachers in Kruger National Park, but as she gets more immersed in the lives of those involved, she must confront the colonial past of her country and its implications on a conflict close to home. Follow her tracks in eight long, profoundly researched and beautifully written and reported podcast episodes: The Invisible Hand. [more inside]
The Home Office’s plan was impeded somewhat by British law
The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in World War II. During the second world war, Chinese merchant seamen helped keep Britain fed, fuelled and safe – and many gave their lives doing so. But from late 1945, hundreds of them who had settled (some married, with kids) in Liverpool suddenly disappeared. Now their children are piecing together the truth.
Stories to Read in 2022
61 Books By Women of Color to Read in 2022. Rare Toni Morrison short story to be published this month. 24 Must Read 2022 Books in Translation. 25 Cookbooks to Look Forward to in 2022. 49 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2022. 55 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2022. [more inside]
They Bought A Blender
Three weeks later, the cats are still holding it hostage. Happy Caturday
Acorns and birds and squirrel attacks oh my
Photographer David M Bird creates model creatures out of acorns which he calls becorns and then contrives to get real birds to pose with them.
Arbornauts of the Eighth Continent
Dr Meg “Canopy-Meg” Lowman is used to being the lone woman in a man’s world. She is currently working with a committee Ethiopian priests to protect “church forests” from grazing by cattle and encroaching cultivation by neighbouring teff [MetaPrev] farmers; in collaboration with Alemayehu Wassie Eshete. [more inside]
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