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To me, blondeness has always felt like both a special power and a strange curse, a fountain of youth and beauty from which I once happily drank in greedy gulps, but which now runs drier each year. In pictures from my early childhood, I sit shrouded by a mess of golden threads wrangled into a butterfly clip or a hair elastic, beaming with my...

3Blue1Brown (previously) has released a new video: "This open problem taught me what topology is".This is an updated "2nd edition" for the 2016 video "Who cares about topology?"

Our right to change the built environment begins in part with the right to change the building code, to understand it not as something written in stone and handed down from above but instead as a living document worthy of debate, antagonism, and revision. It is only a tiny cog in the complex machines that govern how we live together, but it is also...

Rupert Goold's 2010 film adaptation of his acclaimed theater production of Macbeth starring Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood is the best version of the Scottish play of the many I've seen."Is this a dagger which I see before me?" "Come, you spirits..." Best of all, you can watch in its entirety here.

During the holiday season, Israel burned northern Gaza's last functioning hospital; staff and patients removed. Israel detained the hospital's director Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and other medical staff. This is the last known picture of the director surrendering himself to the IDF. We are up to 4 babies freezing to death in Gaza. Meanwhile, the US pushed for retraction of a famine warning for...

Methane is the main component of natural gas, so producers also have an incentive to capture the fossil fuel to sell into the US market or to exporters. When burnt, methane turns into CO₂, which also warms the atmosphere, but less quickly than methane. Biden has said that cutting emissions of is "one of the most important things we can do in this decisive...

We are at a moment in the history of the web in which the link itself – the countless connections made by website creators, the endless tapestry of ideas woven together throughout the web – is in danger of going extinct. So it's pertinent to ask: how did links come to represent information in the first place? And what's at stake in the movement...

20 people in a two-bedroom apartment: the growing health and safety risks of hot bedding. Sydney's housing crisis is evolving into a hidden health crisis and as rents soar, some residents face an impossible choice: unaffordable housing or unsafe living conditions.

The eerie quiet period between Christmas and New Years can make for a slow day in local newsrooms struggling for material. In Aotearoa New Zealand, the public broadcaster RadioNZ, chose to run a remarkable triple header - useful road-safety information for holiday travelers, an amusing headline containing a rhyme and a tiny hint of terror about a potential avian uprising - "Geese v police,...

"You're On Your Own." Andy and Tarik, of the All Lawyers Are Bastards podcast, have a new podcast.Maybe think of it as a pointed antidote to the Rogan/Peterson model of men discussing their feelings. A better summation comes via this recommendation from Marx Buehrle: The premise of the show is basically that two smart, funny and compassionate men articulate things you already know but...

DreiBlade! Play in browser or download (with local multiplayer). Bet chocolate coins, defeat colorful low-poly characters, collide spinning dreidels to save the moon!

A risky bet is any manuscript that does not look like what sold best yesterday. This is why agents tell aspiring authors to compare their manuscripts to big-hit successes from the last three years. Authors, especially debut authors, must prove that their novel has an "automated" quality and will slide, as easily as possible, from the conveyor belt into a shopping cart. Though it...

Happy 3rd night of Hanukkah. Put on your aprons. After the early night gifts (sock and underwear, perhaps?) behold I will be bringing my child a gift from the interwebs: schnitzel latkes.

Tone Find A fun game where you have to identify a target note. I've become a little bit addicted to this game and I've definitely found my ability to identify notes has improved the more I've played it. I've managed to get quite a high score but I'm far too modest to post it here.

"Your drive to write books is delusional. Embrace that, for fuck's sake! It's compulsive. It's a form of self-soothing and also a form of self-punishment. It's an escape and also an attempt to reckon with the truth. It's a way of broadcasting "I'm still here!" and also a way of hiding from everyone. In a writer's world, in an artist's universe, I LOVE EVERYBODY...

Court upholds Northern Territory remote tenants' right to clean drinking water. The NT Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that the territory government is legally responsible for providing safe drinking water in remote communities. Lawyers say the decision could have implications for a wider class action on remote housing.The Northern Territory Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that the NT government is...

There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is His Prophet. Bilal ibn Rabah, a Black citizen of Mecca, was a slave who was tortured by his polytheist owner for professing Islam and sticking to it. His steadfastness in his faith along with his unmistakable, unshakable voice led the Prophet Muhammad SAWS to ask him to be the very first muezzin, the man who...

Druids are best known as iron age ritual workers, practitioners of an earth-based spirituality found throughout what is now England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The movement in the region still has many adherents who trace their inspiration back to these ancient forebears. In North America, however, things are different. Modern druids on the continent can trace their origin back to what was, essentially, a...

Youtuber investigation uncovers that those expensive glasses that treat colorblindness don't work at all. This was previously covered with some comments saying the glasses didn't work for them. Part 2 explains why they can't work, despite all those videos that even include one Logan Paul. In part 3, the CEO of Enchroma responds.

Wool, silk, plastic, and a few other clothes fibers, ranked. By hobbitron-3000. A short Tumblr post that amused me.

In a great restaurant of Europe, the team in the kitchen will be led by the gros bonnet, and under him a saucier, an entremettier, a potagiste, a rôtisseur, a grillardin, a friturier, a garde-manger, and any number of commis running around with important missions, urgent things to do. Here - with Anne excepted, as la pátissière-en-chef - this one man is in himself...

"we're not just talking about the successful re-releases of Interstellar and Coraline. As some theater chains in North America contemplated evolving... rep theaters saw a surge in popularity. Meanwhile, as everyone waxes nostalgic about going to Blockbuster, indie video stores are giving cinephiles the real deal" [av club]title [wiki] on dvd, previously

Fuller wanted to be a genius and she wanted to be loved. She wanted to write, to cultivate her intellect, to feel passion, to be a mother. "I love the stern Titanic parts, I love the crag, even the Drachenfels of life", she wrote (she was referring to the steep mountain on which Goethe's Faust is set), "I love the roaring sea that crashes...

Internet use for people aged 50 or above linked to improved mental health. The study published in the Nature Human Behaviour Journal has found people using the internet who are 50 or older had fewer mental health symptoms.