Saturday, 14 December 2024
quote [ Based on the sharp decline of the G rating, apparently not. Learn why Hollywood seems to have left the general rating designation behind. ]
You got a new reality, and it's all rated G
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Friday, 13 December 2024
quote [ If any of you get selected for Jury Duty, do not mention or even hint at knowing about Jury Nullification during screening. ]
Sometimes you just gotta dance like there's an ass in your pants.
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quote [ By the time of Albert Kahn’s death in 1940, the French banker and philanthropist had amassed a collection of more than 72,000 autochrome photographs. Grace Linden explores the Archives de la Planète — his sprawling, global project to document and preserve the fast-changing world — and uncovers a latent nostalgia in the hyperreal hues of early color photography. ]
I'm searching for a colour.
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Thursday, 12 December 2024
quote [ improvisational science ]
This is from a podcast series by two bioinformatics people on the creative "night science" aspects of research work. The podcast is a little chatty, but the actual paper is subcscriber-only.
Gist: groups from 3 people might be less creative than just 2 people conversing.
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quote [ From stinky tofu to Oreo-calamari, there's a method to their specialty-pie madness. ]
This was a Pizza Hut
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Wednesday, 11 December 2024
quote [ A ceramicist retraces his Maya roots to recreate a long-lost pre-Hispanic pigment that survived for over a millennium. ]
Maya blue, he paints the sky
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Tuesday, 10 December 2024
quote [ A unique fjord in Chilean Patagonia gives scientists a chance to unlock the reproductive secrets of cold-water corals that typically live thousands of meters below the ocean’s surface. ]
Coral reefs, a colorful display
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Monday, 9 December 2024
quote [ Spotify also stopped paying for songs that do not reach 1,000 streams within 12 months earlier this year. The company has positioned this as a measure to streamline royalty distribution, but this policy impacts approximately over 150 million songs on the platform. ]
Aah, those thugs and muggers.
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quote [ Listen to the Show on all Podcast Apps "Really? no, Really?" https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-really-no-really-107027693/Today’s episode could be titled, ... ]
NEWMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Check extended for link?
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quote [ In North Carolina, a Black farmer purchased the plantation where his ancestors were enslaved— and is reclaiming his family’s story, his community’s health, and the soil beneath his feet. ]
On this cold black earth, baby
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