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In 1881, when he was half through his adult life, quintessentially American painter Winslow Homer upstakes and went to England. For a year and a half he lived in a sea front hotel at Cullercoats, near the mouth of the River Tyne. He hung out with fisherfolk (men to the sea, women to the shore) and captured their lives and the weather on canvas....

In Sweden, eco-minded architects are have designed the "world's largest wooden city", an "urban environment infused with the serenity of a forest", with construction commencing this year. Naturally, interesting wooden architecture is not a new thing, even for large buildings...Russia, in particular, has a history of unusually creative wooden architecture. Colourful terems, or traditional wooden palaces, showed Byzantine and Asiatic influences and often featured...

Easy Rider (1969) trailer Easy Rider is a 1969 American road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by HopperGeorge: You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it. Billy: Huh. Man, everybody got chicken, that's what happened, man. Hey, we can't even get into like,...

"The first year that the Hudson Valley Seed Company tried growing yakteen at their farm in upstate New York, the heirloom variety of Palestinian gourd quickly spread until its vines were sending their tendrils across a full acre of land. Born of a partnership with the artist, researcher and conservationist Vivien Sansour, that pilot plot was just one of many pieces of evidence supporting...

Does RFK Even Lift, Bro? Come for the thoughtful dissection of the fitness of a strange old man. Stay for the delicate connection drawn from fitness and age related body dysphoria to gender dysphoria.Personal note: I try to be an ally but I'm not someone with deep thoughts about trans issues, so apologies if this article misses the mark. However, as someone who is...

The internet and its associated gadgets stir reactions remarkably like those once directed at the press. In some quarters, futurist technophilia; more commonly, alarm at the social, political and cultural impact of these innovations, combined with neurotic dependence upon them. If Flaubert were writing his Dictionary of Received Ideas today, 'Can't live without it, but thunder against' could very well be the entry for...

"One gets the sense that politics has gone off, like a cell phone, in the darkened theater of Pamela Paul's mind. It is worse than wrong: It is rude." She is departing the pages of the NYT.

'Walking with Weather' "McGuckian lives in the province of 'whatever you say, say nothing', a motto which has become the only sustainable way of engaging in a society so divided. To announce your political views in such a context can not only be awkward but actually dangerous. At the personal level, McGuckian is writing about the most personal traumas of gender and sexuality, parenthood,...

"Howard Johnson's had a powerful position, at its peak possibly a higher market share of the chain restaurant industry than McDonald's has today. Yet the company's glory days lasted less than thirty years."Paul Freedman, Ten Restaurants That Changed America: Howard Johnson's has an enduring reputation for wholesome but unimaginative food, but this is not a completely fair characterization. The fried clams, for example, were...

How to tell the difference between Australian crows and ravens. The mournful caw of a crow is part of Australia's bush soundtrack. But is it the sound of a crow or in fact a raven? It depends on where in Australia you are. Here are some tips on identifying these intelligent but often maligned creatures.

See the First-Ever Photographs of the Elusive Mount Lyell Shrew, Finally Caught on Camera in California. A group of young researchers captured and photographed the animal on a three-day expedition to the Eastern Sierra Nevada.

Baked Potatoes, simple and delicious, but what type of potato should you use?Here's another look at which potatoes make for good baked potatoes This post inspired by a recipe calling for Yukon Golds and I was curious why. Also if anyone has good recipes for making your own potato chips, please toss them my way.

The panels and pages within Tintin are filled with an ephemeral old world that doesn't really exist anymore (if it ever did). Hergé creates a sense of scaled urbanism as well as the naturalistic world in fantastical yet real places. ... Tintin's adventures span the globe. In a lot of ways, it might be the first depiction that some children see of these locales....

Art, colonialization, and the destruction of the Sami culture Chavenet's post title, It can be difficult to know exactly what time it really is ironically underscores Máret Ánne Sara's art and motivated this one. I wanted to see the art, Pile o'Sápmi, referenced in his article. Is this a time of change in the Sami culture or is it the final step in its...

The Real Winslow Boy. The real life story of George Archer-Shee may sound like a familiar underdog story. A boy accused of theft of a postal order and expelled, defended by his father with all his resources. It inspired Terence Rattigan to write a play, The Winslow Boy, which inspired two films of the same name (1948 - trailer, 1999 - trailer).George was a...

USAID[.gov] very visibly helped bring apartheid to an end around 1988, which just happens to be the year Elon Musk and his family abruptly fled South Africa – illegally immigrated to America to launder his family's apartheid fortunes through tech startups like PayPal and so... he says now he will kill USAID [flyingpenguin]

"Depending on your point of view, Ed Wood was either a famous, or infamous filmmaker. What the average Ed Wood fan doesn't know is that Wood wrote a heck of a lot of novels, short stories and news articles; 80 novels, several hundred short stories and a few hundred non-fiction articles. And Wood was a damn good writer. Imagine Elmore Leonard writing without an...

Rescue mission like no other: Tiger and boar pulled out of well in India. Officials say the unlikely pair fell into the water when the young tigress was chasing the boar. With expert coordination & care, both animals were pulled out unharmed and released back into the wild.

"Words can change the way a patient thinks, feels, and performs. Swearing, or uttering a word that is considered taboo, is an often-ignored part of our language, even though over 50% of the population swears "sometimes" or "often". If used correctly, within a biopsychosocial approach to care, swearing has the potential to significantly improve patient outcomes."So many pull quotes, but this resonates with my...

Time lives in the body, not as the tick of the clock, but as a pulse in the blood. It is a thought, buried deep in nerve, leaf, and gene. It is also a social contract, one we adjust according to different needs, whether for daylight saving or simply setting a watch five minutes fast to avoid being late. from Wild Clocks by David...

Does what it says on the tin. There was a list of his Instagram posts on Laughing Squid. He also has a YouTube channel with some of these as shorts.

Single Link Blog. It comes up often in AskMeFi what British mysteries are good to watch. Timothy Barron's website is very helpful in answering these questions, particularly when you're looking for something similar to what you've enjoyed in the past. Barron has kept up his site for decades now, updating it pretty much as new series of shows are introduced.Barron has divided his reviews...