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Friday, January 03, 2025
Haalarit
In Finland, college students often wear haalarit, or overalls (what we would call coveralls) to university events, parties, and ceremonies. The appearance of the haalarit will tell you a lot. The color indicates what discipline they are studying, which varies by school. The patches worn are from experiences and accomplishments. And sometimes you can tell if a student is "taken" if they have a mismatched part, as they sometimes swap with their significant other. The haalarit are a source of pride for students, and a way to boost school spirit. It also makes it easier to see who has the same interests as you do.
The custom of the haalarit began in the 1950s or '60s when other students began copying the painting overalls worn by Civil Engineering students in Sweden. Further digging reveals that these overalls should never be washed. Well, college doesn't last forever. (via kottke)
Love Me
Love Me has an intriguing concept. In the world after human extinction, a buoy falls in love with a satellite. To be together, they review historical accounts of humanity and create avatars of themselves, played by Steven Yeun and Kristen Stewart.
The idea may remind you somewhat of the plot of Wall-E, where we are compelled to root for the success of robot romance. Love Me was screened at Sundance a year ago and has middling reviews, so the execution may not quite live up to the idea. Releasing a movie in January doesn't inspire that much confidence, but I certainly enjoyed the trailer. Love Me opens in theaters on January 31. (via Gizmodo)
Miss Cellania's Links
10 Horror Movies That Prove January Is a Box Office Dumping Ground. That doesn't bode well for Wolf Man, opening January 17. (via Metafilter)
You can make snow globe cupcakes that are completely edible. Well, maybe not you, but it can be done.
Grandpa's first pedicure. Sound on! (Thanks, Stephanie!)
A devastating nerve disease stalks a mountain village. Neurologists have grappled with a cluster of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cases in France, where a fondness for a toxic wild mushroom may hold the answer.
2025 - Truly a mathematical wonder.
Have scientists cracked the best way to drink champagne? (via Damn Interesting)
5 Doomed Quests to Control the Earth. Humans make plans, and the Mother Nature just laughs.
Trench Crusade Isn’t Woke, It’s A Grimdark World War 1 Warhammer Alternative. More links at Metafilter.
Introducing the Internet
The kids' guide to the internet, circa 1997Check out those pixelated websites! (via Everlasting Blort)
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Thursday, January 02, 2025
The Little Albert Experiment
The trope of the evil scientist is useful for fiction, but it is grounded in real history. Scientists as a whole are just as ethical as the population of people they came from, and that means that some were fine with doing horrible things to experimental subjects. A psychological experiment conducted by John B. Watson in 1920 involved an innocent baby, which shocked the scientific world. It was one of the experiments that led to stricter ethical standards in human experiments, and drove home the importance of scientific rigor in claiming results that may or may not stand up over time. There is little evidence left of the Little Albert experiment, but Weird History uses what little photographic evidence is left plus plenty of stock footage to tell the tale.
The Dogs of 2024
We Rate Dogs gave us the top ten dogs of 2024, which I posted in my miscellaneous year-end list. But now we have THE video you've been waiting for, a compilation of clips featuring the goodest boys and girls of the year. You will laugh at some, tear up at others, but you'll smile the whole time.
Scent of a Robot
The 2004 song "Scent of a Robot" by Pete Miser is about a robot who discovers he's a robot, triggering an existential crisis. Or is it about a real man who discovers he may as well be a robot, the way he's programmed to labor for his taskmaster? Either way, it's a thought-provoking song with a cool video. (via Everlasting Blort)
"America the Beautiful" in Every National Park
Conor Knighton is a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning. During the course of 2016, he visited all 59 U.S. national parks in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. At every park, he stopped and recorded himself singing “America The Beautiful,” and made this compilation video in which you can get a glimpse of them. In this segment from the show, he tells us about his tour. You might want to enlarge this one, because the scenery is lovely.
See beautiful pictures of Knighton's national park visits at Instagram. (via Boing Boing)
An Omen?
The only person killed in this incident was the driver of the Cybertruck.A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) January 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Wednesday, January 01, 2025
How Can Stores Sell Rotisserie Chickens So Cheap?
A whole chicken roasted on a rotating spit is a glorious thing. The cooking method has been around for thousands of years, but these days most people don't have a rotating spit, nor do we have a place to build a fire. You can get a rotisserie oven, but that takes up a lot of kitchen space. Lucky for us, a lot of grocery stores have very large kitchens, and make rotisserie chickens every day, often offered for a lower price than a whole raw chicken. When I worked at a grocery, I had to smell those things as they cooked, and it was heavenly. I often took a $5 rotisserie chicken home, cooked and still hot. For a single person, that's four or five meals. They aren't $5 anymore, but they still sell for less than raw chicken. How do they do that? Weird History Food tells us everything we need to know about rotisserie chicken.
The Ancestor Paradox
If you had really good genealogy records, your family tree could be huge, with infinite fractal branches. That doesn't really happen because the population of the world doesn't get bigger in the past. But even if it were true, you don't carry genetic information from all your distant ancestors. You always inherit 50% from each parent, but you could carry as little as 0% from one grandparent and as much as 50% from another. Those are extremes, and there's an exception for a genetic male, who always gets the Y chromosome from his father's father. But whatever percentage you get from each grandparent, that slice gets smaller with each subsequent generation. The upshot is that after a few generations, you will have no genetic link at all to some of your acestors. Which is good, because they may have been more closely related to their spouse than is comfortable to think about. This video from MinuteEarth is barely over three minutes; the rest is an ad.
Sgt. Pepper 2024
Every year, British artist Chris Barker makes a poster in the style of the Beatles album cover for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band featuring images of notable people who died in the previous calendar year. It's a big crowd. Note Kobosu, the dog we know from the doge memes, in front. Also Burt the crocodile who starred in the movie Crocodile Dundee. The objects in front are representative of people who aren't recognizable by their pictures.
Barker has worked around the clock in the past few days trying to include every celebrity. The image above is version five for 2024, as he updated the collage to include former president Jimmy Carter and a couple of other people who passed on in the last week. By now it should be definitive. The latest key we have is for version four, enlargeable here, and if he gives us an updated key I will edit this post.
Year-end Lists 2024: Looking Ahead to 2025
NASA 2025
A slate of exciting space missions in 2025.
11 Dazzling Celestial Events to See in 2025, From a Total Lunar Eclipse to Rare Planetary Alignments.
12 Predictions for Life in 2025. What will we wear, eat, buy, believe, desire?
New 2025 laws hit hot topics from AI in movies to rapid-fire guns.
New criminal justice laws in effect Jan. 1, 2025 in states like California, Illinois: What to know.
Happy Public Domain Day! Check out what copyrights are expiring.
From climate denial to gothic movies to ‘treat culture’ … what to expect in 2025.
Outrageous Predictions 2025. "not exactly news and not exactly real – at least not yet."
Censorship Trends For 2025, Part I. And part two.
Social Security: What To Expect in 2025.
Economic Forecast For 2025 And Beyond: Growth With Continued Inflation.
'Generation Beta' Begins in 2025, Expert Says: Here's What to Expect from the Kids That Will Live Until 22nd Century.
Asparamancer New Year predictions 2025 include Trump scare. She's read the asparagus.
The Most-Anticipated Movies of 2025.
Top 10 Anticipated TV Shows of 2025
Atlas Obscura's Best Places to Travel in 2025.
The Biggest Games Coming in 2025.
Don't Expect Used Car Prices To Drop In 2025.
Six Kitchen Trends Definitely on Their Way Out in 2025, According to Designers. And three that are on the rise.
The 11 Hair Color Trends That Will Dominate 2025.
End Times: Legendary oracle Baba Vanga's scary predictions for 2025.
See all the year-end lists here.
2025
Auld Lang Syne, a traditional tune to bid fairwell to the old year. Happy New Year from the West of Ireland! pic.twitter.com/lms0BF9Lgx
— Patrick Dexter (@patrickdextervc) December 31, 2024
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