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Bridgerton Ball said to the Willy Wonka Experience, "Hold my port." (archive link for NYT)The Guardian covered this too! Listen, there is so much majestic coverage of this in social media, I couldn't possibly.

Joshua Idehen - Mum Does The Washing (sl YouTube) Mums explain the world one article of clothing at a time (via Web Curios).

Peanut butter bacon balls could be the best hope for these tiny endangered marsupials. When researchers aren't in the field, they roll "hundreds and hundreds" of bait balls with the secret ingredient of bacon to lure the endangered marsupial into traps.

SOPHIE (yt) Is Gone. Her Music Lives On - "The artist's posthumous album is less an expression of her journey than a guide for the rest of us—a last gift." (previously)In 2013, a mysterious producer named Sophie released "Bipp," a minimalist club track that sounded like it had been formed on another planet and squeezed through hyperdrive before arriving on ours. "Bipp" was black...

Japanese singer-songwriter Sayuri has passed away at the age of 28. She had been on indefinite hiatus as of July this year due to vocal dysphonia. For those unfamiliar with her work, she left behind two wonderful performances on the YouTube channel The First Take, Koukai no Uta (About a Voyage) and Mikazuki (Crescent Moon) (English captions are available for both songs).Also known as...

We expect language to function in a very linear sense. One word comes after the other. One sentence after the other. But the moment – let's say even in language, right? – when you start using parentheses, you start hyphenating, you are interrupting the flow. Even just referring back to an earlier moment in the text, you can go back to the text. All...

At least 1 in 6 men have been sexually abused or assaulted. "Baby Reindeer" is helping many finally start talking about it. (Trigger warnings: rape, sexual assault, child sexual abuse, prison, stalking, suicide.)If you're a male survivor of sexual abuse, please bookmark some support resources before continuing to ensure that you'll have someone to talk to about anything this post stirs up even if...

What once looked like a slippery slope to the hyperinflation of wages is now openly embraced as a policy pathway to the hyperinflation of financial assets.An essay by Melinda Cooper introducing her new book. Previously, Previously.

Men "borrowing" free time from women is driving the gender exercise gap. As family demands increase, women's physical activity becomes more limited, but the same doesn't happen for men.

September 26, 2024 is World Cassowary Day: Why the 'world's most dangerous bird' is itself in danger. The Queensland Department of Environment, Science and Innovation invites you to "Be 'cass-o-wary' on the road this World Cassowary Day."

Body Count - "Comfortably Numb" feat. David Gilmour | The situation changed once Ice-T's team circumvented the publishers and took the proposed track directly to Waters and Gilmour via their managers. "Once we got to David, he was like, 'Fuck, yeah. I love this song. I approve it,'" says Ice-T. "And then Roger listened to it and his only comment was, 'Who's singing?' When...

So, I'm excited to share some music with y'all. [1h30m] André 3000 shared a listening experience for fans, for his flute music album, New Blue Sun. I don't really know how to describe this, so maybe just put it on and find your zen.

All of that is just scene-setting for my real concern: the public understanding of fiction itself is changing, and with it, the types of fiction which are commercially (or even socially) viable going forward. Three fictive seeds germinated during the 1970s, and we're now living in the fifty year old forest they gave rise to. Forests coevolve with ecosystems, and now we're seeing the...

"Still, she was enjoying the class, and it was probably why she'd dreamed of a Jvichoru song, even if she couldn't figure out how her brain had produced it." "Maghda's Song" is a short fantasy story by Eleanor Glewwe, published in 2022 in Anathema: Spec from the Margins. Glewwe is a linguist and musician, and notes, "There is also a cat, if you need...

Highbrow horror cinema has won respectability—but sold its soul. (slTheBaffler)Horror fans, get ready to rumble with this article! Also, Longlegs was perfectly fine but not the scariest movie of the year. Not by a long shot.

"Broadway intersects 59th Street and Central Park West. This was formally called Grand Circle and also just The Circle. [ ] Broadway has actually been a thoroughfare in New York City long before Central Park existed. In fact, it goes back to before the city was called New York, and even before it was called New Amsterdam. The native Lenape people living on this...

You, too, can strengthen English and write good. "...First, we must not allow new verbs to enter the language in a weak state. We must ensure, for example, that to clone is established as clone, clewn, clown, as in: Future generations of booksellers may reproach us for not having clown Joyce Carol Oates and Isaac Asimov."

Social Communication is a site dedicated to helping people improve their ability to communicate with others. We hope to provide straight talk about talk, tone, and other ways humans form and maintain social relationships, for people with social communication challenges. We recommend you start by reading more about social communication in general, but you might also be interested in how this site is organized...

Meet Johnathan, the AI-powered camera, just one type of new technology saving the ocean's endangered animals. It is often said AI will take the jobs humans should be doing — but in this case, the human researchers are happy enough to pass on the job of scanning thousands of hours of recordings made deep in the Southern Ocean, freeing them up for the pursuit...

André Malraux's Theory of Art - Challenges to Traditional Aesthetics A brief essay on André Malraux's answers to the 20th century transformation of aesthetics and what qualifies as art.Rendered in authentic Web 1.0 style.

Laurie Anderson has a new work out. Amelia [YT Playlist] explores the life of Amelia Earhart. She discusses it here for about a half hour, if you're so inclined.

Eric Adams Is Indicted in New York [archive] "The indictment is sealed, and it was unclear what charge or charges Mr. Adams, a Democrat, will face or when he will surrender to the authorities. Federal prosecutors are expected to announce the details of the indictment on Thursday."

A UCLA professor is suing six major academic publishers for violating antitrust law. The proposed class action claims that Elsevier, Wiley, Sage, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wolters Kluwer "conspired to unlawfully appropriate billions of dollars that would have otherwise funded scientific research" by not paying for peer review, banning simultaneous submissions to multiple journals, and preventing scholars from freely sharing their work.An...