(via Dave Barry)
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Welcome to the Fourth Grade
Imagine you are nine years old and you don’t feel at all confident about moving up to the fourth grade. You don’t know who your teacher is going to be, or what you’ll be doing this year. And then your parents get an email from your new teacher, and it’s a music video! New teacher Dwayne Reed sent a video to his incoming students to show them what the next year will be like for them. I can imagine that other Chicago fourth-graders are already envious. (via Tastefully Offensive)
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The Women in My Family Had to Be Good With Money. Not because they didn’t have enough, but because their husbands would take it from them. (via Metafilter)
The Misadventures of the Other Grand Duchess Anastasia, the Last "Real Romanov.” The last Tsar’s cousin was a true character as well as royalty.
In the 1430s, King Sejong came up with an idea to develop a Korean alphabet based on the sounds of the spoken language. That scared the wits out of the ruling elite class, who objected for centuries.
JFK's Goat-Out-the-Vote Campaign. It took a goat to get Massachusetts voters to give the young politician a good look in 1946.
What Is the Earliest Evidence for Life on Earth? It may be chemical smears inside gemstones.
8 hilariously outdated sex ed films you can watch online. No sex, though; they’re all about puberty in girls.
Ramen Is Now More Popular Than Cigarettes in U.S. Prisons. Food overall is becoming more scarce behind bars.
Damon McMillan and friends spent three years designing, building, and perfecting a solar-powered boat called the SeaCharger. How far can a boat like this travel by itself? You can keep track of the SeaCharger as it makes its way to New Zealand at the project’s website. (via Metafilter)
Monday, August 22, 2016
Gotta Love Millennials
Micah Tyler tells it like it is. I do love Millennials- after all, I have several of them! (Thanks, Bonnie!)
10 Delicious Food Mashups You Have to Try
What’s better than your favorite foods? Combining your favorite foods to make new foods! Combination dishes, or mashups, are another extension of how American cuisine developed in the first place, by using what ingredients are available and modifying recipes from elsewhere to adapt them to local tastes. Here are some mashups you might want to try, in a list I constructed for mental_floss.
Charter Schools
John Oliver explains what charter schools are, why politicians love them, and we the American public should beware of them.
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An anonymous guy asked Sara Benincasa why she is so fat. She gave him an answer.
There’s More To Measuring An Olympic Course Than Just Measuring It. (via Metafilter)
Manicures and Permanents: Inside a Senior Living Facility Beauty Shop.
How Natural Are Nature Documentaries?
These Are The Best Photos Of The 2016 Olympics Closing Ceremony. All of the color in a fraction of the time.
15 Things You Didn’t Know About Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls. The 1966 novel about drug abuse was based on real-life experiences.
When a Paris Newspaper Pushed a Housewife to Murder. Freedom of the press comes with real-life consequences.
What I'll miss about Gawker. Saying goodbye to the blog everyone loved to hate.
Body Anomaly Tattoos. Tats go a long way toward celebrating one’s difference.
Sunday, August 21, 2016
Simon’s Cat Logic: Feeding a Cat
Simon Tofield and Nicky Trevorrow explain how cats go nuts when it’s feeding time. My cats can tell time better than I can, because if I’m the least bit late with the nightly Fancy Feast, they gang up on me. My oldest cat Gogo has nothing better to do than to guard the kibble bowl and let me know when it’s not quite full. The best part of this video is that it ends with a new Simon’s Cat cartoon entitled Feed Me.
Saturday, August 20, 2016
We Don't Win Anymore
"We don't win anymore." pic.twitter.com/opLEssKAxA— Deadspin (@Deadspin) August 20, 2016
(via Uproxx)
Friday, August 19, 2016
Meeting a Family of Skunks
Don’t. Move. An. Inch. You don’t want to startle this family! Francois Arsenault was out on his bike in Pointe-Taillon National Park in Quebec when he was approached by a fairly tame mother skunk and her litter. Luckily, he satisfied their curiosity without triggering their defense mechanisms. (via Tastefully Offensive)
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7 Insane Things TV Shows Did When They Ran Out Of Money.
Donald Trump and the long history of white men claiming fraud.
The Olympic tennis courts in Rio are surrounded by a bright green floor and walls, reminiscent of a TV studio weather center. The temptation was too great. (via Boing Boing)
The sorority house door stack is a strange and alien ritual.
Here’s How Ryan Lochte’s Robbery Story Turned Into An International Incident. Oh, what a tangled web we weave.
Hawaii Might Just Have The Best Rainbows On The Planet. Cameron Brooks records them from a helicopter.
Inside the World's Only Surviving Tattoo Shop For Medieval Pilgrims. You can still get a tat to commemorate your trip to the Holy Land, just like the Crusaders.
What's the deal with the modern pentathlon? The event combines running, swimming, shooting, fencing, and horseback riding, but why?
He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died. The photos Jamie Livingston took tell his story better than any book could have.
Thug Notes Review: A Wrinkle in Time
This was my favorite book when I was about ten years old or so. The illustrations here don’t quite match my imagination from that time, but the commentary is incisive and entertaining.
Thursday, August 18, 2016
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