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The three members of Team Kwe, the United States's only all-Indigenous, all-women snow sculpting team, measure where to make their first cuts for the 2024 Minnesota State Snow Sculpting Competition.
Taylor Swift wakes up, stretches, and thinks, “How can I destroy America today?” It’s so important to set intentions. A Day in the Life of Taylor Swift as Imagined by Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorists
Around the World in Eighty Lies “This article has been retracted as it does not meet Atlas Obscura’s editorial standards.” via Miss Cellania
A petition to “save the sink” received 197 signatures in a month. Einstein's Sink
“Remember, the word privilege can be used randomly. People who are breathing are unfairly privileged over people who died in the year 1816, who you also speak for. How dare they love geese, who are privileged above poor wingless platypuses!” Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media
The fashion creations of designer Rick Owens look like AI weirdness.
“We had some paths throughout the house, these curved walkways around items piled high. The entryway to the home was kept clear so anyone looking in wouldn’t know our secret.” A story about book hoarding, an affliction with which I am more than casually acquainted .
This is where I do my blogging.
The Fox Foundation has bankrolled more research than the US government. Michael J Fox on pity, Parkinson’s - and a potential cure. This man is a true hero.
In 1984, two young wrestlers were killed when the bus carrying the team plunged over a 300-foot cliff. One of them was twenty-year-old Jed Kesey. Shortly after Jed’s funeral at his family’s farm, his father, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest author Ken Kesey, wrote to five of his closest friends. Read the heartbreaking letter at Letters of Note
The forgotten medieval habit of 'two sleeps' For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning.
All hash browns are not created equal. Mistakes everyone makes when cooking hash browns.
An experimental philosopher at the University of Arizona has set up a camera to capture a single image of a desert landscape in Tucson over the span of 1,000 years. The image will be ready in 3023. More: Smithsonian Magazine
A petition to “save the sink” received 197 signatures in a month. Einstein's Sink
This tofu looks beautiful but it probably tastes like a wet sponge.
What a time we live in! Empty Nest Coaching: When their children leave home parents are hiring coaches—for $250/hour—to help them adjust.
This recipe from smitten kitchen is the halfway point between a spaghetti frittata and a spaghetti quiche. Pasta and so much cheese. Of course I want to make it.
From famed Greek Islands to an ancient Armenian fort: European Historical Sites Most at Risk
I'd like to think I do my blogging there as well, but alas my hovel is even more cramped. (Kevin)
ReplyDeleteI had to drop half my body weight to get through that tiny door.
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