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The woman in Hitler's Bathtub - revisited (22 years later!). Or, The Lives of Lee Miller. A biopic of Lee Miller is now in theaters, with Kate Winslet portraying Miller, focusing on her years as a war correspondent in WWII. But who was Lee Miller? Her son, Antony Penrose, wrote about her many lives in the book The Lives of Lee Miller. I count...

"I'm not worried," he told me, shrugging his shoulders. "I have to do what I have to do. I'm sad, but I was so enraged. If I went over there and saw what I saw and didn't write it, I am fucking worthless." (archive link here just in case)

Certain themes recur in this reading list: "us" versus "them" thinking that fuels stereotypical humor; humor's ability to make hatred pleasurable (and even attractive); humor as a mechanism for race-based solidarity; and most significantly, humor as a mechanism through which violence is reduced to a laughing matter. Notably, participation in racist humor is not necessarily restricted to people who identify with any political affiliation....

Victorian town falls in love with Sammy the four-tonne elephant seal. Sammy the elephant seal weighs thousands of kilograms and normally lives near Antarctica. But Portland (in Australia) locals have embraced him, while avoiding some of the trouble Tasmanians have experienced with another of his kind.

It's a cheese that's been made for over 2000 years. How The Most Ancient Roman Pecorino Cheese is Made in Italy (Caciofiore) [20m] But also, check out all of Claudia Romeo's YouTube Channel which is full of interesting videos about foods, mostly cheeses.

Pete Rose Dead at 83 Leaving behind a very complicated history full of on the field accomplishments and a disastrous personal life - including allegations of statutory rape, tax evasion and the betting scandal that led to his permanent ineligibility.

Matt from "weratedogs" ambles through an off-leash park in Minnesota with VP candidate TIm Walz and his rescue dog Scout in another celebrity dog-walking interview. Hard-hitting questions about some of Scout's past scandals are answered! (No politics as such, if you're wary.)

Ellen Greene singing the song she was born to sing. This clip is from a DVD of Cameron MacIntosh, Hey Mr. Producer... I love how she goes from the coy little girl voice to the booming one.And whoever is playing Seymour is excellent too...As are the three ladies in the background...Greek chorus perhaps?

"With just four companies controlling over half of poultry production in the country, chicken processors have been able to collude to suppress wages, fix prices and retaliate against farmers who speak out. Poultry growers have little recourse when Big Chicken gives them a raw deal...Since President Biden signed an executive order promoting competition in 2021, this administration has done more to level the playing...

That error opens up onto the myriad conceptual fallacies built into the entire enterprise, if something so unavoidable can be called an "error." Past performance is no guarantee of future results; but past performance is all a pollster has to go on. That's why much of the process of choosing and weighting samples is ... well, you can call it "more art than science."...

Bop Spotter "This is culture surveillance. No one notices, no one consents. But it's not about catching criminals. It's about catching vibes. A constant feed of what's popping off in real-time."

When last we visited Ottawa County, Michigan, it was embroiled in a number of lawsuits and controversies ranging from de-funding the local library, to firing of county employees, to various lawsuits. Since then a hotly contested primary in which Ottawa Impact has definitively lost their majority on the council, and other news.April: Satanic Prayer opens Council meeting following lawsuit. June: Dueling endorsements by various...

Two speculative stories about the "nothing about us without us" nuances of international disaster relief and economic development work. From November 2023, by Cory Doctorow: "The Canadian Miracle". Reactor's summary: "A contentious election and radicalized locals interfere with Canadian recovery workers' efforts at the site of a catastrophic flood in near-future Mississippi." (Audio: Part 1, 2.) And: July 2024, by Auke Pols, a researcher...

Vangelis And The Journey To Ithaca is a 2h10m journey from 2013 through the various musical landscapes created by Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou across his career. Whether you know him a little or a lot, you'll probably find something new to you here.

Monday. Stress. Masonry magazine. Free thread. Masonry magazine has an article titled "Unusual Ways to Relieve Stress" and sadly, none of those stress relievers involve the art and craft of building and fabricating in stone, clay, brick, or concrete block. It's your semi-regularly-scheduled free thread! What are your unusual stress relievers? If you don't have any, what are you up to on this (for...

Their debate began almost by accident. The meeting in April had been convened to bring together physicists and philosophers to discuss relativity theory, but Bergson came intending only to listen. When the discussion flagged, however, he was pressed to intervene. Reluctantly, he rose and presented a few ideas from his forthcoming book, Duration and Simultaneity [archive] (1922). What Bergson said in the following half...

Watch Squeak go from being so tiny she can't eat a peanut, to being able to eat one peanut at a time, to chomping through sweet potato slices like a champ.Squeak's young mom is Spike, who had her quite late in the season and is, um, an imperfect parent. Squeak is feisty, pushy, and one of many wild neighbors. I have been enjoying watching...

How the UK became the first G7 nation to phase out coal generation. When the UK privatised its electricity sector in 1990, around 65% of its generation came from coal. From tomorrow, that figure is 0%. Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal power station was commissioned 60 years ago and today generates its last kWh. It is the last of a chain of coal burning generators that have...

We also regard time as a kind of commodity, as if it's fungible, as if 10 blocks of 10 minutes is the same as one chunk of 100 minutes. In human terms, this is absolutely not true. "The mere consciousness of an engagement will sometimes worry a whole day." That's Charles Dickens. In other words, if you try and break up your day into...

LGBTQ+ media historian/analyst Matt Baume's newest video is How Rickie from My So-Called Life Changed TV Forever [1h]. It made me cry.It's difficult to describe how much this television show meant to me. And I was older than any of the main characters, but it was speaking to me very deeply. Rickie was just one aspect of this show which seemed to sum up...

Why running emus keep one foot on the ground. Emus might look ungainly when they pick up pace, but they're actually very efficient runners, a new study suggests.