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Rethinking healthy eating in light of the gut microbiome was just published yesterday in the open access journal "Cell, Host, and Microbe". It's is a long and enlightening review article about what we know about the human microbiome and nutrition. It's increasingly looking like we can't understand nutrition science at all without understanding the bacteria who help us digest our food. [more inside]
posted by OnceUponATime at 3:32 PM PST - 79 comments

Imagine a world without Bikini Kill, or a world where Heatmiser was cool with Elliott Smith’s songwriting direction. Imagine an indie-rock landscape without Sleater-Kinney circa Dig Me Out through One Beat (or any of the principal members’ excellent releases prior to S-K), or a Pacific Northwest scene where Unwound didn’t have a label that enthusiastically followed their artistic flights of fancy. And that’s just scratching the surface. From the great, weird bands on subsidiary 5 Rue Christine (Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu) to Throwaway Style Hall of Famers Wimps, Kill Rock Stars has endured multiple waves of the so-called death of the music industry to remain one of the most influential record labels in music.
posted by Cash4Lead at 2:34 PM PST - 9 comments

John Cena meets Misha, a teenager with Down syndrome who fled Ukraine after his home was destroyed (YouTube). To motivate Misha on their journey to safety, his mother told him the fantasy that they were on their way to find Cena. They spent the afternoon building blocks and eating cake. [more inside]
posted by Pronoiac at 1:29 PM PST - 25 comments

North of the Border, Canadian maker of things, discloses: I made a Realistic Lego Man and I'm Sorry.
posted by cortex at 12:22 PM PST - 30 comments

No one ever knows what they’re unleashing. They don’t even know there’s a leash. I’ve been given a time machine. Would I send a Terminator back to the web standards meetings circa 1994 to eliminate the element? I don’t know. If anything could defeat a Terminator, it’s attending a web standards meeting. A little HTML widget gave us all-powerful Amazon and Facebook. There's no closing Pandora's text box now.
posted by gestalt saloon at 11:11 AM PST - 58 comments

“No one wanted to be on that project because it ate people. It destroyed people,” one former developer on Fallout 76 told Kotaku. “The amount of people who would go to that project, and then they would quit [Bethesda] was quite high.” Kotaku spoke to 10 former employees of Bethesda and its parent company ZeniMax Media who were familiar with Fallout 76’s development, all of whom shared their accounts only under the condition of anonymity. Some sources said that they signed non-disparagement agreements upon leaving the company, and feared that ZeniMax’s influence in the industry would prevent them from being hired elsewhere.
posted by octothorpe at 10:28 AM PST - 39 comments

Less Alone (on spending a month in a fire-spotter's cabin in rural West Virginia, SLBitter Southerner)
posted by box at 8:44 AM PST - 11 comments

"Cola math" is a silly, twenty-nine-second video: "Circa year 2000 something, cut together from a couple silly student films." Found via Brion Vibber as he was testing video transcoding/deinterlacing. [more inside]
posted by brainwane at 8:16 AM PST - 4 comments

[Twitter thread] “I'm reading and watching stuff about 80s and early 90s game development, and it's stuff like this...” by David Stark (@zarkonnen_com)
posted by Wordshore at 8:04 AM PST - 15 comments

"Starting Thursday, lawmakers will begin to lay out findings from their nearly yearlong investigation into the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol." A short primer, with links to live coverage, from PBS's NewsHour. [more inside]
posted by MonkeyToes at 6:56 AM PST - 508 comments

In which we pose a series of questions to the biggest boffins on the planet. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan at 5:34 AM PST - 34 comments