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Three Seattle-area sailors were rocked by these losses, and the circumstances behind them: In both cases, it was not physically possible for the woman left aboard to lift her husband from the water. And, in fact, all overboard sailing rescues pose the herculean challenge of hoisting someone several feet onto a boat. As leaders in The Sailing Foundation, the three established its Safety at...

Covid: January 30, 2025 Welcome to Threat Model: an inclusive, curated selection of new information and fresh perspectives on Covid-19 published every Thursday By MeFi's own Violet Blue

On April 17, after five long years, one of the world's cultural treasures, The Frick Collection, finally returns home.I've been saving this one for a special occasion... PAINTINGS Bellini - St. Francis in Ecstasy Constable - The White Horse Holbein the Younger - Portrait of Thomas More Ingres - Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville Rembrandt - The Polish Rider Vermeer - Officer and Laughing...

Hi, are you a weird asocial dork who's been playing the same video game for 25 years? Then I have great news for you. The Sims is celebrating its 25th anniversary on Tuesday and EA is re-releasing the original game and Sims 2 this weekend as a nostalgia-activating cash grab to celebrate. Watch the official trailer here.You wanna buy it? Furtively looks around, opens...

Some more female-fronted metal, you know, for the kids. Novelists has a new song, All For Nothing. It's a banger like all their songs with their newish vocalist, Camille Contreras.Jinjer has a new album coming out February 7. They just released their homonymous fifth single from it, Duél. Trippy video, too. Hanabie keeps up the Harajuku-Core vibe with おいしいサバイバー. Not Enough Space with their...

Every Sunday morning you go for a walk in the city, heading nowhere in particular, with just one rule to your rambling: You never retrace your steps or cross your own path. If you have already walked along a certain block or passed through an intersection, you refuse to set foot there again. This recipe for tracing a loopless path through a grid of...

We Have Rights - "The agents lied to Esther, saying they were police officers investigating a crime, and her husband, Alexei, was a potential witness. 'Is Alexei home?' they asked innocently. Esther's gut told her she should cooperate, but she remembered something she'd heard on the radio. ICE had been making early morning sweeps using tricks like this to get people to open their...

In the space of only a few months, WEB Du Bois led a team of Black scholars to create an interactive presentation of data-filled charts, "The Exhibit of American Negroes", which was displayed at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Jason Forrest, a data visualization and design expert, gives a talk about how these charts came to be, and Anthony J Sparks explains how he recreated...

WHOs newsletters? YesUp to date information about world health from, you know, WHO Might be of interest to mefites living in nations that aren't World Health Organization members

Elite on the 6502 – A very comprehensive site exploring the source code of Elite, a highly influential space-trading game from 1984, explaining how it did all the things it did within very limited resources. You can play the game in-browser, in various forms. If you're not all that familiar with the game, you might like to read Elite (or, The Universe on 32...

The fifth and final episode of the season premieres today (assuming you read this on 31st January 2025). Each episode is 5-10 minutes. Link to the trailer, which is part of a playlist of the whole thing. This is a really charming, funny, well characterised little show. It's entirely scripted, directed and animated by DeepBlueInk, who has been mentioned on Mefi before as a...

This week, President Trump's sweeping freeze on U.S. foreign aid has deepened humanitarian crises and cast doubt on America's leadership on the world stage. Despite some confusion over the partial unfreezing of federal grants, the bulk of U.S. foreign aid remains frozen, upending the lives and work of federal agencies and contractors. In addition to his Executive order Reevaluating And Realigning United States Foreign...

Television series canceled after one episodeHeil, Honey! I'm Home! Comedy on British satellite channel Galaxy that spoofed American sitcoms of the 1950s and 1960s by featuring caricatures of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun who live in matrimonial bliss until they become neighbours to a Jewish couple (previously) Turn-On ABC variety comedy series; a racier derivative of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, the show alarmed broadcast...

Instead of having an All-Star Game this season, the NHL and NHLPA are staging the 4 Nations Face-Off, which will run from Feb. 12 through Feb. 20. This is a round-robin tournament that will feature four national teams -- Canada, Finland, Sweden and the United States -- with NHL players from those nations filling the rosters.Schedule + where to watch if you live in...

Endangered wallabies flown to safety to outsmart predators. A dozen endangered brush-tailed rock wallabies find a safe new home after an aerial rescue operation in the Warrumbungle National Park.

In this work with the land, Patrick is carrying out acts of reclamation, finding ways to push back against the systems designed to oppress people of color. In a county that was intentionally poisoned — and a world suffering from a changing climate — he is reviving the soil under his feet by transitioning away from pesticide-dependent row crops like tobacco to industrial hemp,...

"[Cecil] Taylor is his own entity: one of the most enriching and confusing boundary crossers between composition and improvisation. His art can be hard to reduce. He seems to think of his music as a kinetic act, a ritual of place and ancestry, something that lives in bodies but less so in notation and documents. And this is why his records go only so...

If you're a fan of True Detective, this will touch something within you. Written and directed by Nic Pizzolatto, with Matthew and Woody coming back, it certainly is Pepsi Blue. But so good. Enjoy.

Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal Recreate the Iconic Fake Orgasm Scene from When Harry Met Sally for Hellmann's 2025 Super Bowl Ad "Oh, this one's REAL!"

There is a vast and growing industry, what I call the opinion economy, that leverages our belief in the value of the (allegedly) authentic views of others and that increasingly shapes not only our purchasing behaviour but also our tastes and expressions of personal identity. The opinion economy is built on our desire for a beacon of clarity and certainty in our fantastically chaotic...

indieblog.page – This website lets you randomly explore the IndieWeb. Simply click the button below and you will be redirected to a random post from a personal blog. FAQ

African American writer, editor, and transgender rights activist Raquel Willis on resisting discriminatory times and on the strength and legacy of trans activists through history. Via Teen Vogue.

Stalwart punk zine Maximumrocknroll has released its annual top ten lists for 2024: part 1, part 2, and part 3.Unlike many other best-of lists, MRR just asks its various reviewers to name their top ten records of the year and presents them in full, although there is a bit of aggregation at the end of part 3 ("we can convey this information to you...