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Harris, Walz to participate in first joint interview since launching campaign (WaPo), point their campaign bus to rural Georgia (NYT), launch Project 2024 ad blitz (The Hill, including this ad).A presidential debate is scheduled for Sept. 10 on ABC, but negotiations about muting microphones are ongoing. Previously in the Kamala Harris campaign: "The whole world is watching."

The Romans, and later Italians, loved and used coriander and its leaves... until they didn't. What happened?

"...Noam Chomsky himself did not come to left-libertarian or anarchist thinking as a result of his disillusionment with liberal thought. He quite literally started there."This piece appeared recently on Arts & Letters Daily, and it caught my attention because I recently read both Homage to Catalonia and Down and Out in Paris and London for the first time.

Precision wheelbarrowing from the Hassocks Red Barrows (video, 2 min). And a three-part video from 2009, one (8 min), two (5 min) and three (7 min). Short article about one of the Red Barrows groups in the Suffolk News. Interview (5 minutes) on Radio Devon. The retirement of the Suffolk group.Previously in a comment by fearfulsymmetry.

Wiggly Paint is an in-browser itch.io program built with Decker (previously) with a sort of Kid Pix vibe (also previously) that lets you paint simple images and save them as wiggly gifs. It was created as part of the Deck Month Jam in December 2023. Here are some Pokemon drawings done with it, but personally all I've done is made odd, abstract shapes, which...

Fifty years after the original walk, watching Petit gesticulate in an air-conditioned room with One World Trade Center behind him, it was hard not to feel that if the original event had been emblematic of the raw, unsupervised downtown New York of the seventies, this event perfectly encapsulated the downtown New York of today: every facet of life contained within a billion-dollar real estate...

"It's very rare that you can gender fossils": How scientists discovered a 425-million-year-old penis. When a UK palaeontologist examined rocks collected from rural west England in the 1990s, he found something unexpected: a tiny fossil with a perfectly preserved penis.

That person was in there. I kept digging in the dirt, trying to find him, trying to get my real father out from under the wreck he'd made of himself, and I never did. [cw: death, emotional abuse, suicide]

In a thread on BlueSky, political science professor Dave Karpf dissects Nate Silver's new doorstop of a book on gambling and risk, and finds several interesting - and disturbing - things within.Probably the biggest (and where the thread title comes from) is the revelation that Silver was betting 7 figures on the NBA at the same time that 538 under his leadership was undergoing...

Record-Breaking 17 California Condor Chicks Hatched at the LA Zoo This Year. The successful breeding season offers more hope for the endangered species, which has come back from the brink of extinction due to captive breeding efforts. "This is a historic moment for the California Condor Recovery Program and the Los Angeles Zoo's animal care team," Rose Legato, curator of birds at the LA...

Finding a therapist who takes your insurance can be nearly impossible. NPR reports on a ProPublica investigation into why therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists are leaving insurance networks and only accepting cash for treatment.You may not be surprised to learn that the primary cause is that insurance companies are actively trying to avoid paying for mental health treatment. As insurance networks add more ghost therapists...

Operation Desperado: The long con of Vivek Ramaswamy A local muckraker who covers the Ohio state legislature plays a long con on the former presidential candidate.

'The Simpsons': 34 Times the Fox Comedy Successfully Predicted the Future or, 50 Predictions From 'The Simpsons' That Came True or, The Simpsons 17 Predictions for 2024 Is Insane!. However, don't forget The Simpsons conspiracy theories that AREN'T TRUE including False 'Simpsons' prediction resurfaces after Trump shooting

This Is Why You Can't Get ADHD Treatment Musician / Investigative Documentarian Benn Jordan breaks down the core reasons for the USA's ADHD medication shortage, the hassle of trying to solve it yourself, why it's so profitable for so many drug companies, the scams that have popped up in response, and the dangers of seeking treatment via the dark web.

a Rotterdam Apartment That's Only 74 Square Feet. Two architects in the Netherlands made the most of the tiniest of spaces, "maximizing absolutely everything." Julie Lasky for the NYT

We live in a time when intensity serves as a stand-in for virtue and the hardness of conviction is valued over the fuzziness of nuance. (slTOLife)If you are a MeFite in a major city, I am sure you are aware of these wellness places! These just happen to be in Toronto...and NYC.

Lewis Mallard is an "interdimensional psychedelic folk artist" who appears in public only in a mallard costume. He is behind public art installations in Hamilton (CBC), Victoria (Instagram), and most recently Toronto (CityNews).Lewis recently sat down for an interview with the host of the 3 Books podcast. The artist's official site and Instagram.

Danny Jansen will be the first baseball player to play for both teams in the same game. Eric Money is the only NBA player to have scored for two teams in one game, although there were others that played for both sides. I can't find any evidence that this has happened in the NFL or NHL, but would love to know if it has.

One reporter wipes away the mystery to reveal the truth, rolled up in a very thorough article that seeks to answer: Why toilet paper keeps getting smaller and smaller

Conventional wisdom about heat islands — urban areas that are hotter than nearby rural areas because of the way the built environment absorbs and reemits heat from the sun — suggests that cities work to restore parks, trees and vegetation to keep things cool. But scientists and urban planners have found that another approach is even more beneficial to Dhaka's predicament: conserving wetlands [mongabay]urban...

"A burglar who broke into an apartment in Rome on Tuesday night was arrested after stopping in the middle of the robbery to read a book about Greek mythology."

Pessimists Archive is a project to jog our collective memories about the hysteria, technophobia and moral panic that often greets new technologies, ideas and trends.A few examples: When the Surgeon General Warned About Pac-Man The New York Times Banned Word Games Before Embracing Them The Forgotten War on Beepers When the Mac 'Ruined' Writing Remember Typewriter Licenses? A Warning About AI from 1863 (!)...

Werribee Zoo welcomes birth of male rhino calf, who already has the zoomies. Victoria's Werribee Open Range Zoo has welcomed the birth of a male southern white rhino, more than a year after the passing of a female calf.