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A 300-Million-Year-Old Fossil Discovered in Utah Could Be a New Species. Fossilized remains of aquatic creatures are commonly found in Canyonlands National Park, but discovering a land-dwelling vertebrate is incredibly rare.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 4:42 PM PST - 11 comments

ambassador Daniel von der Craig trying to decide if the EU is "concerned" or "deeply concerned" [nitter] [more inside]
posted by chavenet at 3:12 PM PST - 24 comments

Although it's first release was a version by Roberta Flack in February of that year, that summer saw Les McCann & Eddie Harris -- Compared to What (Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1969) and that performance put the Montreux Jazz Festival on the map and calender and in history forever. [more inside]
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that's it, that's the post.
posted by wowenthusiast at 11:35 AM PST - 19 comments

How to cook a turkey by slapping it. This is much safer than dropping it from orbit, letting the atmosphere fry it and trying to catch it with a butterfly net.
posted by pyramid termite at 10:13 AM PST - 12 comments

Tenant activism is flaring across the country as renters face skyrocketing rents and deteriorating living conditions in the most brutal housing market in memory. (slMacLean's)
posted by Kitteh at 7:35 AM PST - 141 comments

Cowboy Kent Rollins makes the best Aizeean fried rice ever in the tent. Uncle Roger is skeptical, but has no hate for it like he has for Jamie Oliver. So what happens next in the Cowboy Kent Rollins and Uncle Roger Youtube beef? Well, Chinese sausage in a fried rice happens.
posted by NoMich at 7:33 AM PST - 9 comments

Unraveling One of Rock’s Deepest Mysteries: Les Rallizes Dénudés [NYT, archive link] by Ben Sisario, is a good, short introduction in English to the Japanese underground rock band, who never released a studio album. Bandleader Takashi Mizutani passed away late in 2019, and since then his former bandmate Makoto Kubota has been restoring existing recordings. Now there is an official website, with an oral history, photos and more. The latest release, of a performance at Kawasaki's Club Citta' in 1993, has been remastered in high fidelity, a process Kubota likened to, according to a Pitchfork review, "restoring an ancient Buddhist statue". A good introduction to the band, Citta' '93 is available on various streaming services, and also YouTube and Bandcamp.
posted by Kattullus at 6:10 AM PST - 12 comments

One day is there of the series [more inside]
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