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London, like New York, is often too busy, and too much in flux, to play itself on film. So, time after time, filmmakers rebuild it on backlots...

Today at 5 p.m. EST on February 4th, 2025, a rally began at the Treasury to protest Elon Musk's billionaire takeover. Livestream here. SLYT

If you know Space:1999, you know that Victor Bergman (Barry Morse) and Maya (Catherine Schell) never met on the series because Victor died between Seasons 1 and 2. But they did work together in another series - The Adventurer, starring Gene Barry as a government agent who poses as a movie star. Several episodes are available on YouTube.Start with Miss Me Once, Miss Me...

Which Country has 18 out of 25 of the world's top landowners? When so much land and resources is owned by so few, what are the ramifications?

Scientists and Aboriginal rangers make exciting discovery of new lizard species in remote Australia. Scientists have worked alongside Aboriginal traditional owners to discover a new skink, Liopholis aputja, in the Central Australian desert.

Morreu a escritora Maria Teresa Horta, a última das "Três Marias" [sapo; google translation]Maria Teresa Horta: The Third Maria [Guernica] The women who challenged Portugal's dictatorship [The Economist] The Portuguese Revolution and Women's Liberation [Jacobin] Women against dictatorship [European University Institute] Maria Teresa Horta named one of the 100 most influential women in the world [Portuguese American Journal]

I picture my twenty-three-year-old self, back in 2010. What would I say to her? Things aren't going to get better — they're going to get worse? Award-winning author Casey Plett for The Toronto Star: Think this is a rollback of trans rights? No, this is something entirely new, and much more regressive (archive)

No. 13 Finale is a performance artwork by fashion designer Alexander McQueen... It consists of model Shalom Harlow wearing a white dress, standing on a rotating platform on the show's catwalk and being spray-painted by robots. The piece is regarded as a highlight of McQueen's career and one of the most iconic moments in fashion history.* (h/t to velebita for this inspiring comment)

How much oil remains for the world to produce? Comparing assessment methods, and separating fact from fiction, by Jean Laherrère, Charles A.S. Hall, Roger Bentley"We show that official estimates of the remaining reserves of oil as used by many analysts are very misleading, in part due to poor reporting and methodology, and that these reserves data should not be used. We also show that...

The parts of the world that register the most patents are also, coincidentally, the parts of the world that have benefitted the most from patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism. In contrast, the places whose lands and peoples have historically been exploited by the metropolis are accused, today, of lagging behind in technological progress and not producing enough patents. Those who benefitted from slavery, from exploiting...

Lace monitor an inspiring symbol of recovery five years after Black Summer bushfires. A 1.8-metre-long (5.9 feet long) lace monitor that walks around Robert Miller's dairy farm like it owns the place is the sign of rejuvenation he needed to see after years of healing from the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires. (Australia.)Before 70 per cent of his New South Wales dairy farm burnt in...

CDC researchers were instructed to remove references to or mentions of a list of forbidden terms: "Gender, transgender, pregnant person, pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at birth, assigned female at birth, biologically male, biologically female," according to an email sent to CDC employees

"...a deliriously scattered mess of joy and pain, intermingled and bound up within Coltrane's unbridled and luminescent energy. And now it stands as his parting gesture: one last moment bursting out at the seams with elation and ferocity, an awe-inspiring testament to life." — PitchforkColin Fleming: Composed almost entirely of violently shifting textures and a commitment to dissonance that all but blasphemes melody and...

The Video Game History Foundation have recently opened their online library. A long-running project to preserve the history of video games (something that's run into a wide range of difficulties), the Foundation have just opened their digital library to the public. Browse through a wide range of games publications, along with years worth of archival materials from a variety of games. Here's a short...

Many Democrats agree that the first two weeks of Trump's second term have been rough, even if they don't agree on a message (NYTimes). NPR did its best to recap yesterday. Ezra Klein makes the case, perhaps hopefully, that "Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president." (Gift NYTimes link)He has always wanted to be king....

The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) is widely considered to be a dry and unemotional document. Published by the Department of Transportation, it outlines the basic specifications of all the street signs you could expect to see out on roads and highways across the United States. Most are familiar, but if you dive deeper into its pages, you can find some unsettling...

How Weight-Loss Drugs Can Upend a Marriage. (SLNYT) "At the table, in front of the fire, the tension between them rose, as if recalling the fight reignited it. Javier prickled that Jeanne took offense. "I'm her husband," Javier said, looking at me. "I'm her partner." He looked at Jeanne. "I've supported you in this path." Why, he asked her, would he say anything to...

Winter Soldier is a 1972 American documentary film, chronicling the Winter Soldier Investigation, which took place in Detroit, Michigan, from January 31 to February 2, 1971. The film documents the accounts of American soldiers who returned from the War in Vietnam and participated in this war crimes hearing.*Closing Statement Whatever it was that was in these men, that allowed them to do the things...

Canada hits back with comparable tariffs to the US after Trump cocks up a longstanding alliance. (slCBC)But wait! There's more! Ontario Premier Doug Ford has ordered the LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) to remove ALL US products from their shelves. British Columbia Premier David Eby is also banning US alcohol, but only brands made in "red states." It's easy to rally and cry,...

The organic veggie garden that sprang to life on an arid salt pan. A community-supported agriculture enterprise is supplying organic produce grown on Whyalla's arid salt pans and offering alternatives to the big supermarkets.

In honor of Groundhog Day and in the spirit of fun, we pitted groundhogs from all over the United States against each other — and data from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information — to see who's the most accurate. From Grading the groundhogs