August 26, 2019
Men and food
Part of a series about cooking in Europe and some other places This video is about Lyon, but also about men and their friendships and one man's relationship with his son. The whole series is great, and not at all about men [more inside]
a “response to the American dream gone haywire.”
The California Photograph "Recently I have become interested in a different kind of California Photograph, which is a genre devoted to the landscape decimated and plundered and improved upon to the point of desecration."
This is what patriotism looks like
In the wake of the arrest of Patriot Prayer leader Joey Gibson and some of his associates in connection with a fight outside of a Portland bar on May Day, a video surfaced showing Gibson and others planning the attack.
The video was captured by a D.I.Y. undercover operative who joined the Patriot Prayer movement to report on their activities.
“I think every person should try to infiltrate these groups, if they’re in the position to do so," he said.
spi vs spi
Back to school baon: the iced gem biscuit
Originally created from a Huntley and Palmers biscuit experiment in Reading, England, iced gems started out as just tiny round biscuits, which gained their distinctive frosting a few decades later. They may be slightly less ubiquitous now, but generations of kids from Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore (among others) remember snacking on these tiny, round biscuits with a dollop of hard icing that mostly tasted of sugar. [more inside]
Some tropes refuse to die
" . . . This is why I found Deadspin’s recent article about racism toward Native American lacrosse teams within the Dakota Premier Lacrosse League (DPLL) particularly vital. The way Curtis Waltman laid out the bigotry experience by Native American teams expelled from the league in his piece illustrated why there needs to be a shift in the reporting of Native American athletics. Other than basketball, coverage of Native sports is underrepresented, and the pressures and abuses that come from failing to shed light on these sports will only continue unless they become part of our everyday sports consumption." How to Cover Native American Sports [more inside]
The Case For Climate Rage
"In climate change, many of these elite white men might be experiencing their very first brush with imposed change, with a force beyond their control upending their lives; that might make them particularly ill-equipped to envision what’s next, let alone lead us there. The story of climate change, both its history and its future, needs to be told by people who have already experienced injustice and disempowerment, people who are justifiably angry at the way the system works. And some of those stories are beginning to be told." [Amy Westervelt, Popula] [more inside]
the split-second sliver of time in which rattlesnakes attempt to consume
Ninja Rat! Kangaroo rats, found in the southwestern deserts of the United States, perform acrobatic (Youtube) kicks, twists (Youtube) and spins in midair (Youtube) to avoid striking rattlesnakes. The small -- 3.5 to 5.5 inches (8 -14 cm) -- rodents are highly adapted to the desert, living on moisture found in seeds, not by drinking water. Nija Rat is a group of student researchers (ninjarat.org) studying terrestrial vertebrates, including kangaroo rats and the "exciting universe of adaptation hidden in the split-second sliver of time in which rattlesnakes attempt to consume kangaroo rats by launching at them from hiding and injecting venom." (CW: no rats killed or eaten by snakes in videos) [more inside]
Created in a captivating blue
William the Hippo at the Met "In 1917, The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired a small ancient Egyptian faience hippopotamus. Created in a captivating blue, the little hippo quickly won people's hearts. He received his now-famous nickname, William, in 1931."
How American Evangelicals Helped Stop Same-Sex Marriage in Cuba
The Evangelical church has gained a huge amount of political power in Cuba, and LGBTQ people are dealing with the consequences. A year ago, most LGBTQ Cubans would have been eagerly anticipating the expected legalization of same-sex marriage. In July 2018, the Cuban National Assembly proposed a new constitution that included amended language (Article 68) that would make same-sex marriage legal. But that December, the government withdrew the amendment from the draft, largely because of strong backlash from evangelical churches...The new evangelical alliance is gearing up for a renewed fight against marriage equality: In 2020, the government will reconsider the “Family Code” within the constitution.
They're back—in podcast form!
"Given an ordered list of MP3 files hosted elsewhere on the web, Fourble serves them up as a podcast, with a frequency and start date of your choice. You can use Fourble to make a public or private podcast from audio files that you've found or uploaded somewhere else online—it's particularly well suited to mining the rich seams of archive.org at a manageable rate." [more inside]
Why we need small farms
A photography project celebrates the small-scale and family-run farms that produce 70 percent of the world’s food. [more inside]
Happy (belated) National Waffle Day! Toss out your oven, and waffle!
I'm sorry, I've let all you (in the U.S.) down -- National Waffle Day was Saturday, complete with free waffles (iHeart), though there may be some left-over freebies on Monday and Tuesday. But this isn't just to say "sorry I'm late," but to celebrate a possibly neglected kitchen tool. You probably have a waffle maker (or waffle iron) tucked away somewhere in your kitchen, neglected and sad in the darkness of a far cabinet. I say, pull it out and put on the counter with pride! I Replaced My Oven With a Waffle Maker, and You Should Too (Scott Gilbertson for Wired, Aug. 24, 2019), which highlights MetaFilter's own Daniel Shumski, aka veggieboy, and specifically his book, Will it Waffle? (MeFi Projects) as the gem it is.
All Eyez on Peppa
Hasbro, one of the largest toy manufacturers in the world, has closed a deal to purchase Entertainment One, a Canadian conglomerate that owns such family fare as Peppa Pig and PJ Masks. The $4 billion acquisition represents a distinct shift for Hasbro into the media space, and analysts think that it may trigger even more media mergers and consolidation. [more inside]
“I’ve been playing these games since before you were born!”
You've been played: when your kids start beating you at video games [The Guardian] “There is a moment in parenthood when your child discovers you are not infallible, that you can be beaten. The first time a kid wins a game of tennis against their mum or dad, or solves a maths problem their parents can’t even begin to understand, it is profoundly bittersweet. While it is wonderful to see your child growing up and becoming independent, when they get good at things, they are a little bit less yours, and you are a little bit less heroic. It is sometimes hard to be the grownup in that situation and not deal with it childishly. I discovered this on Saturday when my eldest son and I were playing Apex Legends.” [more inside]
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