The Confusing Truth About Arrowroot. It's name given to many different plants.
How the Unicorn Became an Enduring Symbol—and Scotland’s National Animal.
Pair of Small 17th-Century Portrait Paintings by Rembrandt Are Rediscovered After 200 Years.
Worldwide, young women are becoming more liberal while young men are becoming more conservative. I am shocked, shocked that men and women tend to go with the ideology that most benefits them. (via Metafilter)
New Zealand has a long list of banned baby names. Americans would laugh. (via Fark)
The colonoscopies were free but the 'surgical trays' came with $600 price tags. (via a comment at TYWKIWDBI)
Around the World in Eighty Lies. How a writer fabricated a series of stories for Atlas Obscura
Mad Max Muppets: Furry Road. (via Geeks Are Sexy)
So Atlas Obscura cannot be trusted. If they discover a story is fabricated they do not take it down. I will keep that in mind, and will not treat them as a reliable source. Oh, and the article mentions that the NY Times does the same thing, but I already distrust the Corporate Media.
ReplyDeleteAs a man, I don't see how the MAGA agenda helps me at all.
ReplyDeleteSlightly off-topic, but your Donovan
ReplyDeletepost below reminded me that Melanie
Safka has died. Most just knew her as
Melanie
And I always liked Candles in the Rain
much more than that earworm Brand New Key.
>> Brand New Key
ReplyDelete~Gouges ears out with own keys~
As a man, I would puke being call ed a conservative MAGA. I have been voting since the 70"s. Never once voted for a conservative who thinks things were better in the past.
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ReplyDeleteDWVR, that's a sticky conundrum in publishing. If a website just pulls the articles, it's like they never existed at all and nothing happened. Some would call that a cop-out. Atlas Obscura left them, but added a retraction and explanation at the beginning, admitting what happened.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dark-sky-moffat-scotland
Bruce, that article is about trends among Gen Z, ages 13-27 or so. If you look back in time in those graphs to when you were that age, you'll find you are far from alone.
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