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Soundgarden's Reunion Tour 2012
I don't know why YouTube is serving me all these concerts right now, but I'm not complaining. Here's Soundgarden - Hyde Park - Hard Rock Calling 7-13-2012 - Pro Shot (HQ) Full Show [1h54m], arguably the band at the height of their career after taking a break and reforming. This concert is shortly before the release of their final album King Animal.
Mirror Mirror On The Ball
The process of making a mirror ball. The last remaining mirror ball manufacturing factory in Japan. [14m30s] Depicts making a mirror ball. Actually pretty interesting.
Skeleton of famous whale-hunting Orca "Old Tom" reassembled
Skeleton of famous whale-hunting Orca "Old Tom" reassembled for new museum display. The orca known for working alongside human whalers has been given a new exhibit that museum curators hope pays better homage to its legacy.
‘read and censure ... but buy it first ... whatever you do, buy.’
A Series of Headaches
is a video from the London Review of Books following printer Nick Hand as he prints a page from the magazine using methods as close as he can get to those used to print the First Folio of Shakespeare plays. The page selected is an old LRB article about the First Folio by Michael Dobson [archive link]. The video is made in conjunction with Folio400, a website with lots of information about the First Folio, as well as a series of articles on it.
Ukraine war heading into third summer
As Congress has finally passed the Ukraine aid bill, hope is returning to the frontline, where Ukrainian troops are increasingly struggling to hold out against a numerically superior Russian force that also has a lot more ammunition to spend. This post has some status updates and commentary on the war at present.
Dependence is the ultimate freedom
"Davis doesn’t doubt that the housewife’s lifestyle is desirable; she merely regrets that it has been made inaccessible."
Moira Donegan reviews Housewife by Lisa Selin Davis in Bookforum
"I told them there was some sort of mistake."
When Azeez Sulaiman arrived in Qatar, he thought he was going to play football.
Instead, he ended up forced to work in construction, in dangerous conditions and for meager wages. But a new calling emerged from these trying circumstances: advocating for the rights and safety of his fellow workers. Writer Anthony del Col and graphic designer/graphic novelist Deena Mohamed help to tell Sulaiman's story.
"try to analogise these great matters of state to your daily life"
Daniel Davies is a finance expert, journalist, and former investment banker whose writing I've been reading for over 20 years on Crooked Timber and on his own blog as well as elsewhere. Sometimes he writes analogies, games, or flights of fancy to help readers think about complex issues more clearly.
Are there resources for running volunteer service organizations?
I would love to find the equivalents of the "ask a manager" column or videos or podcasts geared toward running all-volunteer community service and social organizations. I know that some of the management and organizing strategies from workplaces transfer, but in an all-volunteer space I also feel like different strategies may be useful. Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
The beauty of everyday things
For the past hundred years we’ve had people championing machine manufacture and value-adding design for objects that did perfectly well without it.
[Yanagi] had several criteria for these everyday miscellaneous things and all of them are worth revisiting because we now know that some things are best when precision machined and manufactured and other things benefit from showing signs of a human hand at work.
Women less likely to receive bystander defibrillation than men
Women less likely to receive bystander defibrillation than men during a heart attack, study finds. A study of tens of thousands of Victorian cases finds women in cardiac arrest are only half as likely as men to receive defibrillation from a bystander — some telling investigators they feared exposing the patient's chest. (Previously: women less likely to receive CPR from bystanders.)
Red pandas in Australia successfully give birth for the 1st time in 2yrs
There are about 50 red pandas in Australia, but none have successfully given birth in two years until now. The new cub at Altina Wildlife Park near Wagga Wagga is the first born in Australia for two years — and with only 10,000 red pandas left worldwide, breeding programs like it are key to survival of the species.
"8 km away from the villa where the Wannsee Conference took place"
Secret plan against Germany
is an investigative report by German magazine Correctiv about a meeting near Potsdam where Neo-Nazis and members of far-right political party Alternative für Deutschland met to talk about plans for mass deportations from Germany. These plans, and and other fascistic ideas discussed, have led to calls to ban the party altogether. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called these plans an attack on German democracy and this weekend around three hundred thousand people in Germany marched in protest.
Do Like This
Favorite Dance Moves.
Ed People gets people to show their favorite dance moves from all around the world.
armed with her questions
Community science helps us unlock some pretty quirky aspects of the natural world, and those discoveries often come from unlikely places. Take year 3 student Emma Glenfield, who started with a simple question about magpies and wound up conducting some cutting-edge research almost by accident. 8-year-old Emma wanted to know: is there anything about people's appearance that connects people most often swooped on by Australian magpies defending their nests? When 30,000 people answered her question online, she found that people with thinning hair or no hair at all are much more likely to have been swooped on. (She also found out that Australians in her survey really love magpies, despite the swooping.)
Weeping works
Crying on a regular basis can boost your mental well-being. So welcome to cry once a week, which offers a new short, sad video for that very purpose as often as you care to refresh the page.
Best FF Add Ons
So I've made the switch to FF and I'm looking for your must have add ons. I have the usual suspects like Ublock, Bypass Paywalls, I Still Don't Care About Cookies and Copy Me That.
Not your ordinary handiman
"I call myself a part-time autodidact handyman, a playful term to distract folks from the fact that, on paper at least, I have no business whatsoever working on their house. I have a decent education in theology and literature, but zero official qualifications for building a deck or plumbing a kitchen sink or adding lights to an entryway."
Cognitive Bias, Situations Matter, Pick a Noun, and other dead ends
Gino's work has been cited over 33,000 times, and Ariely's work has been cited over 66,000 times. They both got tenured professorships at elite universities. They wrote books, some of which became bestsellers. They gave big TED talks and lots of people watched them. By every conventional metric of success, these folks were killing it. Now let's imagine every allegation of fraud is true, and everything Ariely and Gino ever did gets removed from the scientific record, It's a Wonderful Life-style. What would change? Not much.I’m So Sorry for Psychology’s Loss, Whatever It Is: an essay by psychologist Adam Mastroianni on academic fraud, the replication crisis, and the questionable paradigms underlying a still-adolescent field
75 years on four wheels and an umbrella
7 October, 1948: French automaker Citroën unveils a strange little car intended for rural farmers. Built to be cheap to buy, reliable, rugged, and easily maintained, its design spec was that it could carry up to four people wearing clogs and hats and 50kg of farm goods at speeds of at least 50kph, and be able to carry a basket of eggs across a plowed field without breaking any. 75 years later, the Citroën 2CV remains an enduring emblem of French culture and engineering.
Genuine role players will not care whether others are watching
Although the history of LARP as a legal defense is narrow, the authors share the concern that it may soon become commonplace. Early attempts at such a strategy have been made by a defendant acting alone6 or in loose cooperation with members of a fantasy group who knew each other only in the virtual world,7 claiming “artistic expression” to excuse threatening language. from LARPing and Violent Extremism [FBI's Law Enforcement Bulletin]
More Than Meets The Eye
“The excitement I feel looking at the 1960s architecture of Kenzo Tange is rooted in the excitement I felt as a six-year-old boy looking at the animated Autobot City.” Owen Hatherley looks at the Transformers franchise through a New Socialist lens.
I would like to re-purpose a dSLR camera into a very basic “photo booth”
Here’s what I’m thinking: dSLR camera on a tripod, button on a cord;
when the button is pressed, the camera takes a number of photos (4 or 5) one after another,
with a delay (one to five seconds) between exposures.
Greater bilby numbers soar through Taronga Western Plains Zoo
Greater bilby numbers soar through Taronga Western Plains Zoo rehabilitation program. The quest to save Australia's threatened greater bilby has been an amazing success at Taronga Western Plains Zoo where the population has jumped from 18 to 136 since 2019.
"I just published a wildly over-researched article--
--about a question that has been plaguing me for months: Why is this bridge here?"
The deepest of deep dives into the history of a seemingly trivial phenomenon: a footbridge over a suburban freeway south of Minneapolis. At the same time, an amazing piece of citizen research and reporting on a bit of pre-internet local history. (via)
“They had no unique economic function: They were Europeans.”
The rumour about the Jews
is an essay by Prof. Francesca Trivellato about how Jews expelled from France in 1394 were falsely credited with inventing the bill of exchange. She was interviewed at length on this subject by Nachi Weinstein for the Seforim Chatter podcast. The historiography of Jews and finance was the subject of Prof. Julie Mell’s The Myth of the Medieval Jewish Moneylender, which she summarizes in a brief radio interview with the Carolina Journal. For a more in-depth interview, you can listen to Scott Ferguson interview her for the Money on the Left podcast (incl. transcript) or read the three critiques in a forum on the book hosted by the Marginalia Review, and Prof. Mell’s response.
Special Event: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup: Semi-finals
Four teams left. Heartbreak and glory await!
Tasmanian Quoll Joeys Engage in Really Cute Play-Fighting
Tasmanian Quoll Joeys Engage in Really Cute Play-Fighting (Youtube video). While mum’s away hunting, her six little joeys engage in endless play-fighting, wrestling matches and general mischief. It’s a valuable training ground for when they grow up and must deal with other quolls.
Special Event: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup: Round of 16
And we're down to 16, with glorious knockout glory awaiting.
Women's World Cup of Soccer 2023
Maybe it started with this viral French telecom ad (you don't need the subtitles), but we're halfway through the World Cup going on in Australia and New Zealand. The group stage is over, and the round of 16 begins this weekend...
Special Event: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup: Match Day 3
Find out who makes it to the Round of 16!
A dad & his family surviving, building, camping, repairing, bushcraft.
“Me and my boys, Tommy, Nate and Jacob are the Outdoor Boys. We love all things outdoors: family projects and adventures, travel, forging, camping, campfire cooking, fossil hunting, magnet fishing, metal detecting, goofing around, etc.” Selected videos: Survival Camping 9ft/3m Under Snow. Camping & Fishing on Floating Cabin Built From Scratch. Dugout Shelter Under 10ft (3m) of Snow. 1 Year in Log Cabin Survival Shelter. Can I Survive Alaskan Winter with No Sleeping Bag, No Tent & No Tarp? No Tent Winter Camping During Snow Storm. Lost in Alaska - How to NOT Freeze to Death! $25 Walmart Survival Challenge. 8 Days Winter Camping & Cooking in Basic Shelter. 13 Ways to Start a Fire (No Matches or Lighter). Winter Camping in Underground Bunker. Bulgarian Bearded Axe Restoration. Winter Camping in Alaska with a Sled Dog Team. How to build a fire in a RAIN STORM! And so much more.
Ukraine war, summer grinds on
In the war in Ukraine, the Ukrainian counteroffensive is still going on, but with slower progress than many in the West had come to expect. Professor Phillips O'Brien tries to put it into perspective, and War on the Rocks has some musings on the future of offensive warfare. Respected analysts Micheal Kofman and Rob Lee have visited with the Ukrainian military, and the preliminary conclusion is that they have a number of challenges, including scaling up offensive operations. Their report is not ready, but you can hear some initial thoughts. Russian fortifications including minefields are holding up well to direct attack, and the focus is on reducing Russian combat power with artillery, now using the somewhat controversial cluster munitions provided by the USA. There have been a couple of deep strikes into Crimea, and the hit on a fuel depot caused the full closure of the already-damaged Kerch bridge.
Special Event: Special Event: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup: Matchday 1
The Women's World Cup is here, hosted jointly by Australia and New Zealand! Let's set up like last time, with threads for each matchday, and threads for round of 16, quarters, semis, and finals.
Terry Gross is a national treasure
Oh hey, it's Monday morning, time for that most relaxing of musical treats, the NPR Tiny Desk Concert! Today's artist: GWAR.
New Woo Review
If the metatribe reflects anything about our wider cultural moment, it is our shared disillusionment with the broader liberal optimism the rationalists have come to embody. The promise proffered by so much of Silicon Valley — that we can hack our way to Enlightenment, transcending our humanity along the way — no longer seems plausible amid the broad ennui and general pessimism that has settled into our culture over the last decade. from Rational Magic by Tara Isabella Burton
"That is, at least, until last month."
The Last Recording Artist, by Jaime Brooks, is a fantastic essay about the birth of radio, Hatsune Miku, Drake, the relationship between artists and commercial product, and—as Brooks themself puts it—"ghostwriters, virtual pop stars, and the world to come."
After 50 years, platypuses return to Sydney's Royal National Park
Platypuses return to Sydney's Royal National Park after they disappeared from the park's waterways about 50 years ago. The iconic Australian animal is believed to have disappeared from the national park after a major chemical spill on the Princes Highway in the 1970s, but numbers may already have been in decline.
A joint project by the University of New South Wales, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and the World Wildlife Fund has reintroduced five females to the Hacking River, with a group of males to follow next week.
Palaeontologists uncover mystery of marsupial lion bones
Palaeontologists uncover mystery of marsupial lion bones in Wellington Caves excavation. Weighing up to 164 kilograms, the marsupial lion was the largest mammal predator ever found in Australia and preyed on other megafauna such as the diprotodons between 2 million and 46,000 years ago.
AI-hab: All My Means Are Sane, My Motive and My Object Mad
A boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly, enough to drive a nervous man distracted. Yet was there a sort of indefinite, half-attained, unimaginable sublimity about it that fairly froze you to it, till you involuntarily took an oath with yourself to find out what that marvellous painting meant. Ever and anon a bright, but, alas, deceptive idea would dart you through.—It’s the Black Sea in a midnight gale.—It’s the unnatural combat of the four primal elements.—It’s a blasted heath.—It’s a Hyperborean winter scene.—It’s the breaking-up of the icebound stream of Time. But at last all these fancies yielded to that one portentous something in the picture’s midst. That once found out, and all the rest were plain. But stop; does it not bear a faint resemblance to a gigantic fish? even the great leviathan himself? from Chaos Bewitched: Moby-Dick and AI by Eigil zu Tage-Ravn
The Original Grotesque
A cooperation (German language) amongst the German Museum of Technology, the Erik Spiekermann Foundation, the Art Library of the State Museums and the State Library of Berlin has created a digitization of "the mother of all grotesques", the 1898 Kreuzberger H. Berthold AG published Akzidenz-Grotesk, or AG. OTF and TTF downloads available at GitHub.
A Predisposed Disappointment
It may seem strange to apply a theory developed with respect to such significant world events to stickers, a medium primarily concerned with circulating images of lazy cartoon ducks and the like. But that is part of the point. Stickers reveal how the realities of public secrecy in China within the culture of the everyday have crystallized. With stickers, the tactics of visual ambiguity, remixing, humor, affective masking, irony, and ambivalence — once the preserve of artists dealing with significant political events — have become a primary part of mundane visual expression. from Speaking in Stickers by Krish Raghav
When a possum is NOT an Opossum
Meet the Common Brushtail Possum, an Australian tree-climbing marsupial that keeps its young in a pouch until they are too large, at which point they ride on their mother's back. It eats leaves; bark; flowers; fruits; fungi; insects; birds eggs; small to medium birds; and sometimes rats. It likes living in the hollows of old trees; with tree loss, it is now often found in people's roofs or garages or sheds. They sometimes come into people's houses through cat flaps. In urban areas, they will accept fruit from people's hands.
Demand to see a Soviet officer
West (through East) to West
If you were in the British Armed Forces in the 1980s it was possible to drive from Helmstedt in West Germany to West Berlin passing through East Germany on the way. You simply needed to carry the right paperwork and to follow the rules. A lot of rules. This Royal Military Police film from 1988 talks you through the dos and (multiple) don'ts of making such a trip. SLYT
Australian Prime Minister marches in the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras
Australia's current Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, just became the first Australian Prime Minister to march in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. He marched with Rainbow Labor NSW, which is an advocacy group within the Labor party for LGBT equality. Albanese has been marching [as an ally] at Mardi Gras since 1983 (yesterday was the 35th time that he's marched with Mardi Gras), but it is the first time that he has ever done so as Prime Minister.