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It’s time to forget the corporate bigwigs smoking cigars, swimming in gold bars, and driving fast cars for just a second. Suddenly you and the cashier are on the same team. AWESOME! Even more awesome: …

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To survive, we are asked to forget that our lands and bodies are being violated, policed, ripped up, silenced, sacrificed - by Kelsey Day Read at Aeon

Kaufelt was the proprietor of Murray's Cheese in New York City, named the world's best cheese store by Forbes magazine. That may or may not be the case but in any event, he is a …

These are a couple clips of the latest iteration of the Jetson One personal electric VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) vehicle. Apparently they’re happy enough with its current state that the company will begin delivering …

Emma Willard was a pioneer in Women’s education, opening the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York in 1821—the first institution of higher education for women in the United States. The school was later renamed …

From The Guardian Among many other challenges in dealing with the failure of urban policy in Australia, the Minns (NSW state) government is faced with the task of renegotiating, or repudiating, the disastrous set of …

I got this reggae compilation when it was released in 1979. It was then, and remains, the best double album compilation introduction to the richness, and sweetness, of Jamaician reggae. It was compiled by David …

A sad reality for the book industry… via No one buys books - by Elle Griffin: in 2020, only 268 titles sold more than 100,000 copies, and 96 percent of books sold less than 1,000 …

‘He will try.Many of you wouldn’t deny this, and even take it for granted. I am asking you not to take it for granted, to take seriously what it means to say that one party’s …

https://pudding.cool/2023/06/groove/This interactive website exploring the way legendary hip hop producer J Dilla creates his wonky grooves is fun to play around with.

In 2015, composer and media artist Kristina Dutton’s journey into the world of butterfly wings and microscopy began with a scientific research trip to the Amazonas region of Northern Peru. As an assistant to biologist …

Futura, the typeface favored by the likes of filmmakers Stanley Kubrick and Wes Anderson was also used extensively for NASA’s Apollo 11 mission (along with an American knock-off of Futura called Spartan). Tags: Apollo · …

A 1964 advertisement for Florida State University featured a 20 year old Jim Morrison playing the part of a student who was not accepted into the prestigious school. Just a year later in 1965, this …

[life] The surprising data behind supercentenarians … Tim Harford sugggests a surprising reason why some people live so long. ‘In the US, Newman finds that the outstanding predictor of longevity is patchy birth records. Introducing …

Trying to avoid the whole thing where the posting here on the pier withers away around April or earlier, only to return in fits and starts as the year once more draws close, but I’m …

Image: Book cover. Buy the print edition. Buy the epub edition. The circular economy – the newest magical word in the sustainable development vocabulary – promises economic growth without environmental destruction or waste. However, growth …

The original Olympic games got cancelled for 1500 years because … well … everyone was naked. The Ancient Greek Olympic Games, held from 776 BC to 393 AD, so that’s nearly 10 times longer than …

Barack Obama, Our Endorsement: But Kamala has more than a resume. She has the vision, the character, and the strength that this critical moment demands. There is no doubt in our mind that Kamala Harris …

With today's all-volunteer armed forces, we might forget how common military service once was. Throughout most of the 20th century, young men could expect to be called up for World War I, World War II, …