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The 1991 Gulf War did not inspire a lot of protest music. Some of the higher-profile entries include 'Give Peace a Chance' (Yoko Ono, Lenny Kravitz, Sean Lennon, and others), performed on The Arsenio Hall Show on January 21, 1991; Tony Orlando & Dawn's 'With Every Yellow Ribbon (That's Why We Tie 'Em)'; and 'Voices that Care' (co-written by David Foster, who also wrote...

Joel Plaskett has been a touring and working musician since he was 19 years old, starting with his band Thrush Hermit. From solo work to his more rock inflected project, Joel Plaskett Emergency, this Dartmouth, NS native has been steadily putting out material. I love Joel and I wanted to share his stuff with you. (Also, I am seeing him again tonight as an...

So last week I posted a Novelists song, but this week Imma start with a whole live show of theirs: Novelists - Live in Lyon , and it starts with the same song as last week, Turn It Up. The whole set is a great mix of strong melodic + growling vocals and contemporary prog rock—it even has guitar solos!Next, I recently discovered the...

Australia's timber detectives use tree DNA to catch misleading imports. A timber industry leader says she is surprised by results of testing that showed about 25 per cent of products being imported had inaccurate species and origin claims.

From 2019: "The news cycle is driving us to the edge of madness, so why not switch off, unplug and pick up a book? We know you could use a laugh right now — and luckily, several thousand of you told us all about the books, stories and poems that make you laugh.""As with all our reader polls, this is a curated list and...

Dan, you know coin-ops. Fediverse user "Dan Fixes Coin-Ops" explains about different kinds of coin-ops you might like installed in your small business. (single link Mastodon post). Dan, you know coin-ops, I run a small business and would like some coin-ops in there, how does that happen? That depends on the sort of coin-op. PINBALL The whitest man you've ever seen hands you a...

These advertisements—or subway cards as they're better known—are what I term subway reading, as they offer us a uniquely democratic example of what passengers were actually reading rather than what they read voluntarily. It is in this unprecedented breadth of viewership that we can dig deeper into how these subway cards shaped social reproduction in the form of "good behavior" on the subway. Specifically,...

The Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp has put a collection of 14,000 woodblock prints online as Public Domain / CC 0 high resolution TIFF images with tags and search capabilities. Faves: a lumpy fish, a happy fetus, the earth is spherical, a view of the sky, a priestly (?Vulcan) blessing. Aside from woodblocks, there is a large collection of other images and objects from their...

The day a sheep farmer found WWII German seamen on a remote West Australian beach. From the moment Keith Baston picked up the phone on November 25, 1941, the story of HMAS Sydney's last battle would be intertwined with his family for generations.

"The liberal democratic nation-state is on the decline in the West as a result of globalisation, regionalisation, universalisation of minority rights, multi-culturalism and the rise of ethno-nationalism. While Western countries are decoupling the nation-state and shifting toward multicultural civic democracy, other countries are consolidating an alternative non-civic form of a democratic state that is identified with and subservient to a single ethnic nation."Sammy Smoocha,...

Inside this site you'll find lots and lots of information, photos, videos and diagrams from NASA's moon landing programme, Project Apollo. There's also lots of material from the Mercury, Gemini, Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz projects. All of the material on this site is from NASA sources. Although most of it is available from various NASA sites, the pages on this site have all been reformatted...

A music video for Sade's 'Young Lion,' dedicated to her trans son Izaak. From the TRAИ​ƧA compilation (previously), it's her first new song in six years.

The Magnetic Fields: NPR Tiny Desk Concert "The band, featuring the complete original lineup, performed without drums and an almost entirely acoustic set, with the exception of Sam Davol's electric cello."

Who was Alice Brock you might ask? None other than Alice of Alice's Restaurant fame. Arlo Guthrie announced that Alice Brock, his dear friend and inspiration for his song Alice's Restaurant died a week before Thanksgiving. Born Alice May Pelkey in New York City, Brock was a lifelong rebel who was a member of Students for a Democratic Society among other organizations."On Thanksgiving Day,...

"When the icebreaker breaks the ice and it flips upside down, it's covered with beautiful golden algae, and krill feeding on the algae. It's colourful and full of life, like a coral reef." [bbc]

After spending years probing authors' lives for clues to their work—and, far more often, fielding requests from writers who would kill for an ounce of media attention—I find myself most in awe of those who insist on never explaining themselves. from What the Internet Age Is Taking Away From Writers [The Atlantic; ungated]

A Radical Approach to Flooding in England: Give Land Back to the Sea. The idea was to turn what had been farmland into salt marsh, an ancient ecosystem that soaks up water as the tide comes in and releases it as the sea retreats. The marsh acts as a natural and hugely effective bulwark against flooding, absorbing and slowing tides before they can encroach...

Giant Pacific Octopus is captured on video battling currents created by BC's recent bomb cyclone. Longer video from CBC and an excerpted video from Global cut with an interview with a representative from Ocean Networks Canada which captured the footage.Ocean Networks Canada has a YouTube channel with 300+ videos including another view of a Giant Pacific Octopus interacting with a 10cm mesh cage that...

What this thing is, is an artifact of the sharpening that these apply to the video, where there can become sort of ripples in high-contrast areas. And when you point a camcorder at a TV, there is a lot of high contrast going on. It creates almost terrain-like structures, and if you hold the camera at the right angle, it sort of looks like...

Jeremy Allen White lookalike contest in Chicago draws more than 50 participants, won by Glenview therapistSee also: Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, and Timothy Chalamet, plus an obligatory chin-scratching trend piece or two

Baby Evacuation Aprons. You need to "grab your vest and just stuff as many babies as humanly possible in its giant kangaroo pockets before running out the door." (Hat tip: Scopeofwork.net)