October 31, 2023
Chance discovery of handfish thought locally-extinct
A chance discovery by a runner on a beach near Hobart of a spotted handfish thought extinct in the area has scientists excited about the species potential survival.
The species, Brachionichthys hirsutus, has not been seen in the Primrose Sands area for nearly 20 years.
This is a cargo bike
Introducing the bike train (1 minute, youtube)
Help me, help me, help me
Videos about Welsh and Brythonic history
Cambrian Chronicles is a YouTube page with videos focusing on the history of Wales and Celtic Britain, such as one on the missing kingdom of Rheinwg, another on a kingdom that sank into the ocean, one about the unique Welsh letter Ỽ and perhaps my favorite, the king who existed only on Wikipedia, and there are 14 more videos.
0: total number of cases of fentanyl in Halloween candy in 2022
Why Halloween’s ‘Poison Candy’ Myth Endures. “If you think about it, Halloween sadism is the best thing in the world to worry about,” he says. “There is somebody in your neighborhood who is so crazy, they will poison little children at random. And yet, they’re so tightly wrapped, they’ll only do it one night of the year,” he says. “So on November 1, you wake up, look around the breakfast table and count noses. If everyone’s still there, you can say, ‘OK, we don’t have to worry about this for another 364 days.’” [more inside]
"Be Aware of Your "Giveaways"
Trick-Or-Treat The CIA Way: Tips For A Halloween Spent Undercover. Come explore 'Spooky Stories for Halloween.' Or, or, 'Explore the aftermath of the CIA’s infamous “Halloween Massacre”. In recent news, 'CIA publicly acknowledges 1953 coup it backed in Iran was undemocratic as it revisits ‘Argo' rescue'
CW: links to CIA site.
Blank Space (Johnny's Version)
Blank Space (Johnny's Version) [SLTikTok]
Company with 10% lifetime employee turnover shows their secret is trust
"Here are five critical ways we foster trust in our organization–principles that we believe can work at any level, for any team, in any corporation." Remote work has led to an increase in employee surveillance. Employees are finding out about corporate tracking of their work hours, emails, systems use, and more–all of it secret.
This corporate spying destroys trust. If employers are suspicious of their staff, then employees become wary of their employers too. Many workers become more occupied with gaming the tracking system than doing actual work. In fact, research shows that employee-monitoring software actually makes employees more likely to break rules, as the employees subconsciously begin to feel less in control of their own behavior.
FREE DREAD
Happy HOWLoween, dearest MeFRIGHTS. What EERIEsistable costumes have you CONJURED to celebrate? Any SPOOKtacular events planned? Perhaps some reverse trick or treating in the neighBOOrhood, or a creepy cartoon SCAREathon? Tell us about it in this week's free thread! SKELETONS.
British Broadcasting Crowporation.
BBC' Radio 4's Today programme celebrated Halloween this morning by devoting its Tweet of the Day slot to the carrion crow. It was quite a production. [more inside]
The Inky Depths #9: Halloween Edition
Happy Halloween, splashy friends! The tide is coming in with the best links I could find on the spookiest-named creatures in the deep! (and a fun fact about each one, for the time-crunched among you). Reach out a tentacle and press the [more inside]
Artist vs critic
Devon Rodriguez is one of the world's most famous artists. Never heard of him? Maybe "that guy that posts to TikTok about drawing people on the underground" rings a bell. Art critic Ben Davis visited his exhibition "Underground" at UTA Artist Space and wrote a review. [more inside]
Being there because cookies
Sara Lippincott (1938-2023), science editor, died this weekend in the fullness of her years. One of the last things she wrote was a memoir The Tea Table [1500 words = 5 mins] about her days as a secretary in the Harvard Bio Labs. As with so many editors her work was vital but largely invisible.
The Nightmare Before Halloween
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