August 25, 2018
Zinguala
Yehuda Poliker is an Israeli musician. Here he is singing Zinguala. This is his website. Here is a collection of some of his songs on Youtube.
Senator John McCain August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018
John Sidney McCain III, who served as a Senator for Arizona for over 30 years, died at his home today with his family at his side at the age of 81 after battling an aggressive form of brain cancer. [more inside]
“A horse is a horse, of course, of course,”
The foal that came in from the cold after 40,000 years [The Siberian Times] “This is the first picture of an ancient foal dug out of the permafrost in the Batagai depression - also known as the ‘Mouth of Hell’ - in the Yakutia region of Siberia. Head of the world famous Mammoth Museum in Yakutsk, Semyon Grigoryev, said: ‘The foal was approximately three months old (when it died). ‘The unique find was made in the permafrost of Batagai depression. The foal was completely preserved by permafrost. ‘The extra value of the unique find is that we obtained samples of soil layers where it was preserved, which means we will be able to restore a picture of the foal’s environment.’ The Ice Age foal lived up to 40,000 years ago, it is understood. It was buried at a level of around 30 metres in the tadpole-shaped depression, which is a ‘megaslump’ one kilometre long and around 800 metres wide.” [Photos via Motherboard]
".. and let some of the bruise blood come out"
"Come Out", Steve Reich's Civil Rights era phase change piece as choreographed by Anne Teresa, Baroness De Keersmaeker.
Danced by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Tale Dolven. Voice by Daniel Hamm.
(SLYT,1982). [more inside]
A triumphant plutocracy has enslaved the vast body of our people"
The golden age of paleontology
Many paleontologists today are part of the 'Jurassic Park' generation (NPR, July 10, 2018), 30-somethings coming out of PhD programs and feeding into a Golden Age of Paleontology, where some 50 new species of dinosaurs are discovered every year. And according to another Jurassic Park-inspired paleontologist, Steve Brusatte, this has been the rate of discovery for the past decade, thanks also to new investigations in China, Brazil, and Argentina, which "have opened up, and they’re training their own young scientists." [more inside]
Extremely wet and wild
A huge startline pile-up. One team's first win. The leader gets taken out in the most dramatic way. Almost fisticuffs! Controversial team orders. This month marks the 20th anniversary of the 1998 Belgian Grand Prix, possibly the most dramatic race ever held. Relive the drama, with some added comedy [slightly NSFW]. [more inside]
it is absolutely a full time job, dealing with this Shit.
Victorians Shocked by Women Miners in Pants
And down in the mines themselves there was nudity! Quite apart from the children who labored in dangerous conditions, men and women worked side-by-side, stripped to the waist and sweating furiously in the heat. There was “something truly hideous and Satanic about it,” Scriven said—not least because some of the women, if they weren’t completely naked, were wearing trousers.
Mosaic dogs
The Hounds of Hackney Downs is the latest work by the Hackney Mosaic Project, an east London community project. Instagram. [more inside]
Want a long, healthy life? Don’t be poor.
“This is lifestyle drift in action. We know what really determines health - the deep and vicious inequalities that taint developed societies. But instead of trying to address these things, we imagine that if we impose the dietary choices of the privileged on those who are suffering, they will be transformed. And so every diet followed by a member of a privileged elite is touted as the solution, but none of them are. The only real solution is giving everyone a better life. “ Large nutrimental studies often come out in conflict with each other, so maybe we’re missing the point : It’s not diet, it’s inequality.
Stevie and Frida Teach Women's Self-Defense.
Stevie Nicks And ABBA’s Frida Star In This Women’s Self Defense Manual. In 1983 Stevie Nicks starred in Hands Off!: A Unique New System of Self Defence Against Assault for the Women of Today. Written by Bob Jones, an Australian martial arts expert who worked security for Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles, Joe Cocker, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and other big names, Stevie Nicks was on hand to showcase Bob’s nine “mnemonic movements”.
Witty insults can also help fend off a sex attacker. Bob offers one line: “I’ve seen better knobs on toilet doors.” (Trigger warning for sexual assault as subject matter.)
Lindsay Kemp
Lindsay Kemp, who studied under Hilde Holger and Marcel Marceau and taught David Bowie and Kate Bush, is dead. Or is holding very still for very long.
The Corn of the Future Is Hundreds of Years Old and Makes Its Own Mucus
The Wonder Plant That Could Slash Fertilizer Use - "An indigenous Mexican corn gets its nitrogen from the air."
Please, let me use your bathroom right now, because I really need it.
Public Bathroom Design and Disability: "When the issues become too big, when finding a bathroom in public just becomes too much of a gamble, people stop going out. It’s then that they go from being merely unseen to being invisible. The problem isn’t solved. It’s shelved."
The Billionaire Yogi and the Prime Minister of India
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