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'Handmade in Japan' Episode 1: Samurai Sword. Episode 2: The Kimono. Episode 3: Mingei Pottery.
posted by clavdivs at 10:12 PM PST - 8 comments

Strikes: an ancient, time-tested tradition.
posted by aniola at 6:31 PM PST - 13 comments

The Seattle Humane Society offers a YouTube playlist of Halloween purrodies of beloved horror movies starring adoptable kittens. [more inside]
posted by the primroses were over at 5:23 PM PST - 5 comments

Hanneli Pick-Goslar (1928-2022) was a friend and classmate of Anne Frank and survivor of the Holocaust including the Lost Train. She settled in Israel where she worked as a pediatric nurse in Jerusalem. She and her husband had three children, 11 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren. She dedicated her life to fighting antisemitism and telling story of her life, and Anne's. Their friendship became the subject of the movie My Best Friend Anne Frank.
posted by jessamyn at 4:01 PM PST - 27 comments

Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lot of Shakin' Goin' On [more inside]
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Just a few years ago, climate projections for this century looked quite apocalyptic, with most scientists warning that continuing “business as usual” would bring the world four or even five degrees Celsius of warming. ... Now, with the world already 1.2 degrees hotter, scientists believe that warming this century will most likely fall between two or three degrees. ... Thanks to astonishing declines in the price of renewables, a truly global political mobilization, a clearer picture of the energy future and serious policy focus from world leaders, we have cut expected warming almost in half in just five years. [more inside]
posted by Artifice_Eternity at 10:35 AM PST - 63 comments

Ahead of Halloween, Vulture asked Foley artists to answer the question [Marilee] Yorston commonly fields: What is the hardest sound you’ve ever had to perform in a horror project? The answers ranged from the yowls of a disembodied spirit to the exact gushing of a head exploded from the inside by a discharged fire extinguisher. (archive.ph link)
posted by Etrigan at 8:12 AM PST - 26 comments

The World Cup is the world’s most-watched sports event, with the last one held in Russia in 2018 attracting 3.6 billion television and online viewers. The next World Cup begins in Qatar on 20 November. As noted by Sky News: Qatar won the bid for the 2022 Men's World Cup over the USA by 14 votes to eight. But given the country's strict Islamic laws, its questionable human rights record, and searing temperatures, there were immediate corruption concerns over the decision. Soon after, FIFA commissioned its own investigation into Qatar's methods, which found "no evidence of any improper activity by the bid team". [more inside]
posted by Bella Donna at 7:56 AM PST - 39 comments

An Economic History of the ('Long') Twentieth Century - "Slouching Towards Utopia is a rise-and-fall epic—but it is better at depicting the rise than explaining the fall."[1,2,3] [more inside]
posted by kliuless at 6:42 AM PST - 13 comments

Youtube creator GiantGrantGames gives the details of how Youtube assigns the ads on a video, why there are so many ads there now and only more coming in the future, and what you can do about it (hint: uBlock Origin), in a video titled YouTube Ads Are Getting Insane And I Hate It. It also reminds us that, in 2023, you won't be able to block ads in Chrome anymore. [more inside]
posted by JHarris at 4:11 AM PST - 80 comments