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Stacy's dad By Sub-Radio. More about the cover and the band at Mel Magazine [more inside]
posted by Gorgik at 11:59 PM PST - 27 comments

@SCOTTeHENSLEY: "We developed a new multivalent mRNA vaccine against all known influenza virus subtypes. Our study describing the vaccine was just published..." [more inside]
posted by kliuless at 11:42 PM PST - 29 comments

How Bootsy Collins Impostors Pulled Off the Ultimate Music Biz Scam (David Browne, Rolling Stone)
posted by Gerald Bostock at 4:46 PM PST - 12 comments

The soft drink Fanta was invented by Coca-Cola, an American company, inside of Nazi Germany during World War II. Developed at the height of the Third Reich, the new soda ensured the brand’s continued popularity. Fanta became a point of nationalistic pride and was consumed by the German public, from the Fraus cooking at home to the highest officials of the Nazi party. How Fanta Was Created for Nazi Germany [more inside]
posted by chavenet at 3:21 PM PST - 71 comments

How Moondog Captured the Sounds of New York

Synchronizing his work to traffic and footsteps, the musician and composer translated the clamor of street life into song.

The weird and true story of Moondog

Moondog -- Do Your Own Thing

The Genius of Moondog, New York’s Homeless Composer

Random Moondoggery and details within regarding the life of someone Mefi's Own nickyskye knew well and counted as a close friend... [more inside]
posted by y2karl at 2:26 PM PST - 34 comments

Every day, tens of thousands of people line up outside the Temple of Time where the Great Clock resides, waiting their turn to enter and bow before it. “They stand quietly, but secretly they seethe with their anger. For they must watch measured that which should not be measured. They must watch the precise passage of minutes and decades. They have been trapped by their own inventiveness and audacity. And they must pay with their lives.” from Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman. "The clock is a useful social tool, but it is also deeply political. It benefits some, marginalizes others and blinds us from a true understanding of our own bodies and the world around us." Joe Zadeh writes a compelling essay in Noema magazine about the origin and meaning of globally standardized clock time.
posted by ReginaHart at 9:42 AM PST - 20 comments

In honor of Charles Schulz's 100th birthday, dozens of syndicated cartoonists worked Peanuts references into their strips today.
posted by COD at 8:28 AM PST - 38 comments

A family moves their inn from the Earth to outer space in a failed 1979 TV pilot. Obviously inspired by a certain scene Star Wars, "Starstruck," on YouTube (27 minutes), starring Beeson Carroll, Lynne Lipton and Roy Brocksmith, may remind you of a certain holiday special from the year before. [more inside]
posted by JHarris at 8:12 AM PST - 33 comments

"The songs and stories on "Free To Be" showed kids that they could question the world they lived in, that parents are just people and that emotions are real. And what's on TV might not be." [more inside]
posted by jessamyn at 7:21 AM PST - 54 comments

"If you look up quark masses online, you’ll find that the mass of an up quark is around 2 MeV while a down quark is close to 5 MeV. But those same sources will tell you the mass of a proton is a whopping 938 MeV. Our sums are off by about 99 per cent." Dr. Katie Mack explores the weird nature of protons in a short article.
posted by curious nu at 6:34 AM PST - 28 comments

Using the Midjourney AI, graphic designer Johnny Darrell has come up with some mind-bending imaginings [Facebook link] of a "Tron" directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky.
posted by ryanshepard at 6:15 AM PST - 27 comments

The overworked project manager on the redesign of the Imperial Lambda-class shuttle gets surprisingly competent feedback from an unknown official on Coruscant. She promptly decides that anyone bored enough to do a technical review of their own free will should be found proper employment for their own good. (AO3, Beth Winter, Star Wars, Gen) - because project management in any galaxy goes darkside.
posted by dorothyisunderwood at 5:18 AM PST - 15 comments

Overly Sarcastic Productions is a YouTube channel where the two creators/owners - going by the colorful monikers of Red and Blue - provide overviews and analysis of pop culture, myths, legends, literature, tropes, and other such topics. With the 10 year anniversary of the first video on the channel nearing, Red and Blue recount lessons learned from a decade of creating content.
posted by NoxAeternum at 5:01 AM PST - 2 comments