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Here's a couple examples. The present: A young woman walks down a street in Tehran, her hair uncovered, her jeans ripped, a bit of midriff exposed to the hot Iranian sun. An unmarried couple walk hand in hand. A woman holds her head high when asked by Iran's once-feared morality police to put a hijab on, and tells them: "Screw you!" [more inside]
posted by aniola at 10:14 PM PST - 16 comments

How Scientists Working in Antarctica Inadvertently Developed a New Accent. A 2019 study of scientists over-wintering in Antarctica revealed subtle but measurable changes in the participants’ speech. [more inside]
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 8:38 PM PST - 35 comments

It’s that time of year again. Research that first makes you laugh, then makes you think.
posted by rubatan at 4:44 PM PST - 16 comments

Even in fiction, brands are important. In a richly-illustrated discussion, members of the Barbie, Wes Anderson, and Adult Swim design teams share their thoughts on bringing the fictional brands to life and furthering the story.
posted by bbrown at 2:02 PM PST - 10 comments

...it is one thing to accept a job as the internet's best-compensated rodeo clown and another thing to perform it.
posted by signal at 12:11 PM PST - 53 comments

Author Jeff VanderMeer on rewilding your own backyard,the good and bad. [more inside]
posted by Kitteh at 11:46 AM PST - 13 comments

The United Auto Workers union is on strike against General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, the first time in its history that it has struck all three of America’s unionized automakers at the same time.
posted by Etrigan at 11:10 AM PST - 45 comments

Fernando Botero has died. [more inside]
posted by essexjan at 10:58 AM PST - 26 comments

Millions Saw His Paintings on TV. In the Art World, His Work Still Went Unnoticed: In his lifetime, Ernie Barnes was largely dismissed and ignored by the industry. He became an icon anyway. [more inside]
posted by praemunire at 10:36 AM PST - 14 comments

Writer John Scalzi celebrates the 25th anniversary of his blog, Whatever, with some cromulent retrospection and a great big surprise party. [more inside]
posted by kristi at 10:24 AM PST - 12 comments

In April this Year a 'Wanted Poster' for a Picasso painting ''Femme Assise sur Fond Jaune et Rose, II' was posted by the The Art Newspaper to the Finding Ady Instagram page.
Ady Fidelin was Man Ray's lover and muse, whose obitury was only published last year by the NYT (might need subscription)
Art Historian Wendy Grossman put a lot of the backstory together. Ady was the first Black model to feature in a major American Fashion magazine - Harpers Bazaar 1937. That was the year she was painted by Picasso when some Surrealists spent a summer of sun, sea and sex on the French Riviera, where Paul Eluard, Nusch, Man Ray, Ady, Roland Penrose, Lee Miller and Eilean Agar all joined Picasso and Dora Maar in Mougins. Several repeat photos, Some probably NSW
posted by adamvasco at 9:28 AM PST - 2 comments

iNaturalist Strikes Out on Its Own "This summer, iNaturalist, the global social network for recording and collectively identifying the biodiversity around us, went independent. With the help of a $10 million startup grant, the organization that started as a UC Berkeley master’s project separated from the California Academy of Sciences and National Geographic Society and became its own 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization."
posted by dhruva at 6:37 AM PST - 13 comments