August 7, 2017
#VisibleWomen 2017!
"Hey, folks! We're doing another round of #VisibleWomen on August 7th, 2017. This time we're opening submissions up to include women* colorists, letterers, inkers and writers as well as artists." Advanced search. Via.
I'm with the news, dude
Just eat less, right? It's so simple!
"Weight isn't neutral. A woman's body isn't neutral. A woman's body is everyone's business but her own. Even in our attempts to free one another, we were still trying to tell one another what to want and what to do. It is terrible to tell people to try to be thinner; it is also terrible to tell them that wanting to lose weight is hopeless and wrong." Taffy Brodesser-Akner explores the changing stories and conflicting messages around weight loss in Losing It in the Anti-Dieting Age.
somewhere down the road, somebody is earning more money
Consumers have grown accustomed to being told by insurers — and middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers — that they must give up their brand-name drugs in favor of cheaper generics. But some are finding the opposite is true, as pharmaceutical companies squeeze the last profits from products that are facing cheaper generic competition.
Out of public view, corporations are cutting deals that give consumers little choice but to buy brand-name drugs — and sometimes pay more at the pharmacy counter than they would for generics. - Take the Generic, Patients Are Told. Until They Are Not.
Myrmecology dies in darkness
Here at The Daily Ant, our mission is to provide premier ant content for general consumption. The Daily Ant hosts a weekly series, Philosophy Phridays, in which real philosophers share their thoughts at the intersection of ants and philosophy.
I'd like to know what's your intend
"In the end, the only person who got really screwed was Sting."
"The mystery of time is such that some of the truly hidden gems of cinema do not fully bloom until all of the historical context surrounding their creation can be stitched together and applauded for the sheer impossibility of the mission and the absurdity of the serpentine path taken to get there. As it turns out, the story on screen and the story of the creation of the story on screen can find a groove so completely and utterly in-sync that the only option is to stand a generous distance back from the epicenter and say "Let's ignore for a second that you literally have groove in your title and ponder longingly that there is no other word that can describe the other-timedness of .... THIS"" [more inside]
Radiohead hide a beautiful rhythm
Everything's Coming Up Rosies
On March 29, 2014, 778 people dressed as Rosie the Riveter, at the Yankee Air Museum at Willow Run Airport, Ypsilanti, Michigan, to set the Guinness World Record for "The Largest Gathering of People Dressed as a Rosie the Riveter”.
On August 15, 2015, a new record was set by the World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, with 1,084 Rosies. [more inside]
On August 15, 2015, a new record was set by the World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, with 1,084 Rosies. [more inside]
At the intersection of machine learning & journalism: Spy planes
BuzzFeed News Trained A Computer To Search For Hidden Spy Planes. This Is What We Found (Buzzfeed News) The algorithm was not infallible: Among other candidates, it flagged several skydiving operations that circled in a relatively small area, much like a typical surveillance aircraft. But as an initial screen for candidate spy planes, it proved very effective. In addition to aircraft operated by the US Marshals and the military contractor Acorn Growth Companies, covered in our previous stories, it highlighted a variety of planes flown by law enforcement, and by the military and its contractors.
seducing them with imagined realities
#HEYTWITTER
Frustrated with Twitter's lack of response to hate tweets, Shahak Shapira spraypainted 300 of them in front of Twitter's offices in Hamburg, filming the response of passers-by. (SLYT)
“Here’s another dumbass thing burger chefs do...”
You Are Cheesing Your Cheeseburgers All Wrong And I Can't Stand It Anymore [Deadspin] “...they flip the burgers on the grill, and then, while the burgers finish cooking, the chef lays slices of cheese on the top of the burgers, where presumably the heat of the grill will aid in the melting of the cheese. Don’t do this. It’s dumb! The cheese does not need a lot of heat to melt, and there will certainly be enough residual heat in the patties to melt the cheese when the patties go into the sandwiches. When you turbo-charge the melting process, all you wind up with is a burger with cheese that is melted too thinly over the top and is all folded up and congealed on the side of the burger.”
It's slow-moving, and it's filled with numbers
That time when Hank Aaron met Paul Erdős - via Numberphile [YouTube, about 9min]
The long, dark 'And finally...' of the soul
"Bare in mind it is August"... BBC News presenter Simon McCoy providing all the enthusiasm this story about surfing dogs deserves. (slyt)
And I was like, “I got it, just jump.”
Britney Young speaks with UPROXX's Brandon Stroud about learning how to appreciate and perform professional wrestling.
Foal Eagle
The infamous practice of contract selling is back in Chicago
50 years ago, when African-Americans on Chicago's South and West sides weren't able to get mortgages due to redlining, a predatory practice called contract selling sprung up. Later, during the sub-prime heyday, these neighborhoods were targeted with sub-prime mortgages. Now, after credit tightening due to the mortgage crisis in 2008, contract selling has returned and continues to prey on disadvantaged neighborhoods. [more inside]
Cats and dogs are the bomb!
116+ Times Asshole Cats Hilariously Photobombed Purrfect Shots
200+ Times Asshole Dogs Ruined Perfect Shots
To be fair the dogs are mostly goofballs. The cats, though....
200+ Times Asshole Dogs Ruined Perfect Shots
To be fair the dogs are mostly goofballs. The cats, though....
No gypsum in the impact zone, no sulphuric acid haze
If the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs had showed up ten minutes earlier or later, there would have been no mass extinction.
OMG YOU'RE MY HOOMAN
What happens when you're a rescue pup, your best friend has been hospitalized for five weeks, and some strange-looking fella who's fifty pounds lighter shows up? You learn to stop trusting your eyes and start trusting your nose!
A Revolution in the Plus-Size Market
"A 2012 market-research study estimated that 67 percent of American women wore a size 14-plus. The number has only grown, and the market for plus-size clothing is valued at $20.4 billion. Revenue in the category increased by 17 percent between 2013 and 2016 (compared with growth of just 7 percent in apparel overall). There is, to put it crudely, an insane amount of money just sitting on the table, and it seems, finally, that there are some savvy entrepreneurs out there ready to shrug off fashion’s inherent snobbery and claim a piece of it." Fashion for the 67 Percent by Ashley C. Ford [more inside]
The more we dug into this, the more interesting it got
This land is your land...until I steal it.
113 environmental defenders have been killed so far in 2017
while protecting their community’s land or natural resources.
In collaboration with Global Witness, the Guardian will attempt to record the deaths of all these people.
At this current rate, chances are that four environmental defenders will be killed this week somewhere on the planet.
In collaboration with Global Witness, the Guardian will attempt to record the deaths of all these people.
At this current rate, chances are that four environmental defenders will be killed this week somewhere on the planet.
It's because cocoa and its diseases won't grow in Reading
The exchange of germplasm is important for cocoa breeding and many related activities. The International Cocoa Quarantine Centre (ICQC) at the University of Reading operates to ensure that this vital need can be satisfied without transferring pests and diseases from one cocoa growing region to another.via No Such Thing As A Fish, the QI podcast [more inside]
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship
August 6th was Friendship Day in the US, and the Pet Collective observed it with a compilation of pet friendships. In that spirit, enjoy these other videos showing animal BFFs and
unlikely animal friendships—but steer clear of toxic relationships [all videos mostly ambient noise with occasional loud music].
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