Let's begin with this knowledge - should you find yourself having to pass someone else's judgment for the afterlife, Big Bird is a valuable ally and advocate.
The family tree of the gods of Egypt.
Many of the personal magical artifacts of Doreen Valiente will be displayed according to the work of her foundation.
The concept and practice of positional yoga is a recent development, as is most conceptions of yoga. Yoga is a changing thing, even as some practitioners want it very much to be older than it is. It appeals to those who would like to achieve a more practical, rather than ascetic, mysticism.
Various reasons why someone may choose not to respond to an argument you are making - most of the time, it has something to do with you tipping your hand that the argument will be more trouble than value.
If you are playing the loneliness game or are feeling down about the general state of the world, relief may be hiding in the pages of a spice catalog.
Bioluminescent spheres that glow brightly in the night. Which is neat. Many very cool women scientists working today is even better. As are women whose illustrations paved the way for entomology.
A debate on the validity and use of trigger warnings sparked by Stephen Fry saying that child abuse victims need to grow up (a statement for be had since apologized for) has more than a few sides coming out to play. For some, the use of warnings is being co-opted by those who want to bully using the rhetoric of a safe space. For others focusing on the warnings themselves obscures the point that trauma needs to be thought of and accommodated. Some rather disingenuously suggest that warnings are just ways for people to stifle ideas they don't want to hear. (That argument is ships passing in the night, and the corollary that says exposure is best for healing from trauma elides that most therapy should be done by therapists.)
The reality is likely in the middle - an idea that allows people to approach material with a thought in mind about what is contained within. There's an excellent set of things at![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
liv's, from where much of the links came. The discussion traverses much of the useful space regarding warnings and notes. One thing that might be with adding is the difference between causing offense and causing harm, in that warnings can avoid harm even if they cause offense.
Protests erupted after the delivery of a not guilty verdict to Jian Ghomeshi on charges of sexual assault and choking women. Mostly because the judge rendered the verdict based on his suspicion that the victims were not telling the truth due to discrepancies in their stories. In essence, the judge did not believe the victims, and one can guess the sound of the facepalm involved. Then multiply it by the pervasive culture and incidents of harassment and assault in the United States Forest Service details in the Grand Canyon area. Essentially, to believe survivors and women means believing everything that happens to them, and not just one aspect of it. It gets difficult when two people in an argument are at non-parallel purposes.
The market for art pieces often involves shell companies, guaranteed minimums, and a lot of what looks like collusion long before something comes to market.
Arts education is suffering from an impression of not being essential. But it creates things like electrical distribution towers that look like stained glass structures.
The Simple Dollar has a simple idea - always delay your gratification until later and your bank account will enjoy it. This is a very simple rule. Also, entirely wrong in helping someone have enough pleasure in the short term to be able to tap that later pleasure. In much the same vein, habits that may help with success in life, although many of them are things that seem basic, like finding time to read and do creative expressions.
75 years of Make Way for Ducklings. That's a lot of copies, although I think Seuss might outlast even that. Related to that, the downside of being a phenomenon is when charity shops use copies of your book to build fortresses. For those that like papercraft, a Transformers pop-up book where the robots do the transformation.
Single panels of comics, that are hilarious outside of their context. Jokes that require understanding of more than one language to understand fully.
Cats protect paper from those that would feast on it, so they make natural companions to libraries and bookstores. And people are reading plenty, in formats that make sense to them.
Exporting Shelfari data and importing to LibraryThing will meet you a lifetime account with LT.
A thief nicked £600 from a small bookstore, and social media turned around and donated four times that within 24 hours of hearing about it, plus lots more books and some cookies. Because local bookstores and libraries are there for more than just books.
Young children get their first taste of journalism, which we put next to the nine year-old proprietor of the Orange Street News defending her decision to report hard news instead of fluff pieces.
Translating a work that has a major pedigree in its native language is a scary task - and sometimes produces multiple translations.
A state dinner speech from President Obama gave a joke to Cape Breton, which had been angling as a place for liberal Americans to go should Donald Trump be elected President. Then again, when you have a country where a couple can have boiling water poured on them, and then be pushed out of their house by a guest of the house, it doesn't seem like much of a joke anymore. And then there are people throwing pythons at others.
On, and did we mention North Carolina's government called an emergency session to override city nondiscrimination orders with a statewide ban on them. Which is going to die in a fire on the court challenge, but is still evidence of the animosity present toward minorities.
Politicians that attempt to cut disability benefits and don't apologize for it shouldn't be surprised when they have trouble doing anything else.
At least Scotland is officially recognizing a third gender.
Interesting places to put interesting bookstores. The best stationery stores in and around Tokyo. Photography that makes ordinary objects seem giant, as if one were seeing it from the perspective of The Borrowers. The library / museum of pigments, exceptionally useful for authenticating and dating paintings. Tiny scenes built into tiny boxes.
The gymnasts of the United States Olympic team demonstrate the power and flexibility that the sport demands.
Ernie Hudson in the Ghostbusters he signed on for, as opposed to what he actually got. Which appears to have an eerie mirror in the revival Ghostbusters' treatment of its black character. And also the way that John Cho has been treated as a sidekick and supporter even though he has the ability to be a lead.
Big Hero 6 is getting a television series.
The television show Elementary involves many sharply dressed men and women, with Lucy Liu as the beneficiary more often than not.
The hospital plot of Downton Abbey's sixth season may be the most relevant thing to today's society.
The person that you're silently judging in public spaces probably has already done enough judging of themselves beforehand. If, however, your like to contribute to making better portrayals of them in literature, writing them as characters who are, instead of making the stories about their thing, is a good idea. There is something to say about the society that surrounds them, a thing that is sufficiently vicious that they feel the need to talk and disclose their issues and problems before someone else can use them against them to get and silence them. Idris Elba spoke to Parliament about the need for greater diversity in television and movies. Beyond that, architecture also needs more women and classical musicians should have been keeping more of their women.
Often, the best way to shed anger is to reframe the narrative you are telling yourself. This may include having to forgive and set down the burdens of the past.
Sometimes, though, self-care means medicine and professionals, rather than things like wine and baths. Sometimes it means having to stabilize your own space before being able to help others on their journey. Self-care, however, also means avoiding the trap that you can and should only rely on you to get through everything. Which can be really tough, when you understand that almost everyone else has it worse. It can make you not want to use your social circle for fear of burdening them with something more that they shouldn't have to deal with.
Shifting the mental model from anxious to excited takes less cognitive load than shifting from anxious to calm.
Neurological damage can cause a shift in a person's sense of humor.
Travel advisories about visiting the United States highlight cultural differences.
Doing things by yourself is not a failure of having friends, but instead allows you to experience things at your own pace. Sometimes that means a better experience. High IQ people seem to have a better life experience with less socialization time, but I look a bit suspiciously about that, because some friends are people you enjoy hanging out with, and some people you hang out with are a serious drain. They are not often separated easily, so sometimes it means you have a small group you want to hang out with, rather than a large group where half of them you can't stand.
A sweater full of Neko Atsume characters, the wire sculpture work of Alexander Calder, drone photographs warping architecture, surpassed by pictures from space, and what happens when your opera is invaded by rock and roll.
Tea used to be condemned as an addictive substance, which is why so many science fiction novels have machines that make tea. Also, an infographic on method, placement, and time that food can be safely kept in storage.
Complaining about the youth of your time is at least as old as written language.
It's very easy for bad practices to become institutional and emphasis put in forcing people to adapt to bad things. That includes things like building architecture - designing space that the Deaf will be comfortable in requires a completely different set of norms than designing just for the hearing.
One hundred years of hairstyles for black men. And the degrees of kink and 'fro in black women.
Also important, the essentials of black science fiction.
Believable Chaos is a goal of worldbuilding in fiction. Also, options on what you can do when asked for revisions.
If you work with energy or creativity, enjoy the process of building the spell or the dream, instead of rushing to looking for the result. Pay attention to your energy and body, too, or else you may end up both miserable and exhausted.
We must keep the horrors of war fresh in our memory, lest we decide that we want to do it again. Artifacts help us with this - observe these musical instruments damaged by war.
Even as we work to eradicate epidemics that have killed millions, we must remember to care for those that have survived it at its worst. Which means realizing railing against pornography as a problem when the article itself points out that a lack of comprehensive sex education and consent training is the actual issue is unproductive. It shouldn't take public awareness guides, copious amounts of fanfic reading and writing, and experimentation to produce an informed population.
Calculating the cost of not being a straight man.
Yet another reason not to overgeneralize - the are still plenty of people who haven't had any sort of intimate relationship well past the point when someone assumes everyone has. And yes, single women are powerful, and at least some suggest that low expectations are the way to go in having a happy relationship and complain that older single people are looking for unicorns, but there are a lot more factors at work with regard to relationship status than someone's opinion of expectations. Having been in the smaller towns of the United States, anyone whose tastes doesn't match that of the majority may find themselves not very able to find suitable partners. For some, maintaining friendship and social engagement is tough enough. If you think that speed dating and dating apps are good ways of meeting people, open postures generate more interest, apparently.
A gallery of work inspired by Hayao Miyazaki with several very beautiful pieces.
Superhero stories that go for the grimdark are working against what superhero stories are generally designed for. This doesn't make them bad on face, but it does mean that simply going for violence and the like is likely to backfire.
A discovery of preserved bones in Ireland suggests that the was a native population on the island before the Celts arrived.
Backstage with Leslie Odom, Jr. in the last few minutes before a performance of Hamilton begins. Daveed Diggs on how a guy who wanted to do real ends up doing Broadway. Leslie Odom Jr, along for the ride. Along with Hamilton as a musical that's not about romanticizing its characters, the ways in which Hamilton fails at its mission, the frames that Hamilton chooses not to engage with, how just reading the words does not give you the full character, and the way that Burr is marked as something integral to the narrative right from the beginning.
A primer for rap and hip-hop based on what you like from Hamilton. And the charges of discrimination leveled against the way Hamilton advertised for cast - because a musical that asked for a nonwhite cast is remarkable and deserved scrutiny, while other casts that remain mostly white are just the default.
A documentary on the song We Shall Overcome has filed suit claiming the find itself is in the public domain and does not need licensing.
Given that we are entities that cannot yet defeat entropy, fertility problems from men as they age should probably not come as a surprise. Along with this, the logistics of oral sex and fairy contracts.
The are no roles in a fantastic or science fiction novel that cannot be filled by women, even if you intend your fantasy world to be a pastiche of a historical society. Because actual historical women did basically everything you can think of.
Shonda Rhimes on how taking more time away from work has allowed her to keep working at a higher level.
Tips for new writers - Wheaton's Law plus a few more. Then, beating writer blockages by engaging in creative exercises with private results. Suggestions on success using notebooks for your writing. A game that provides writing prompts based on the environment around the player. Advice on writing that suggests treating writing like work is not necessarily helpful. Technology that might help with thesis and other long form writing. A suggestion on writing a work with multiple points of view - choose the character that is receiving the key information - usually. And a short piece on how a book that didn't look like its peers helped someone choose writing.
Writing outside your experience is possible, but take care with doing so, considering how easy it is to screw something up - really screw it up. For example, autism doesn't always get a great representation in children's media. Writing queer characters needs to make them actually queer - and not give them a tragic ending. There are places where you can find disability-focused arts and other spaces, but it would be nice for the mainstream to adopt better things.
The discovery and pursuance of someone who is plagiarizing an author's work.
The good and not so good LBTQ movies on streaming services. And an analysis of just how much of film dialogue is dominated by men. Plus, a video on how much the Academy excludes movies from consideration for the Oscars.
An appreciation of a language often comes from having discomfort with it - and that includes languages like sign that use three-dimensional space to communicate.
Windows 10 may not be for everyone, including those on older machines.
New ways of looking and designing current-era technology and devices, including a nice toothpaste carton design.
A consequence of an insightful algorithm - Twitter taught a chatbot to be racist, transphobic, and anti-feminist.
The animation software that produced Futurama and several Ghibli films has a free and open source version, now so that those who want to use a professional program to animate their own work will have another option. In non-animated things, realistic Disney paintings, just because.
A lovely picture of the skies above. The benefits of having a 4K camera to shoot with, which mostly comes down to having a higher resolution to shoot with.
The increase of attacks that hold data for ransom is a bad thing - because the risk is low and the potential payoff is high, and the possibility of critical infrastructure and companies getting hit is also really bad.
A tour of the Kitsune Mura village for foxes, the acrobatics of the lion dance (and a glimpse at what training for that entails), a groomer that gives shelter dogs haircuts so that they can be at their prettiest, birdsong, at least in some species, has a syntax, watching a dog grow up a daysecond at a time, a seal lounging on the Charles River (that may have figured out how to get through the locks), wild tiger numbers have gone up for the first time in one hundred years, the newest cat from the Foreign Office, an octopus nopes out of the aquarium, pictures of the cherry blossoms in Japan, pictures taken of old trees, small dogs of large breeds, a kitsune in fox form at work, a penguin reuniting with the person that saved them, the cats that come to the table, communication with cats, animals getting proper pronouns rather than inanimate ones, the diversity of life in a small amount of seawater, a film festival of viral cat videos, the colors of peacock feathers, seen up close, using cats in urban areas to control the rat population, the evolution of incredibly powerful venom, a cat that believes the fish in the table is for him, a slow-motion capture of the body twisting cats go through to land themselves on their feet, and a museum cat that is the official greeter, much like the stationmaster cat, Tama II, in Japan.
Last for tonight, the many flavors of potato chip in Canada, next to an embroidery-icing technique to make cookies that are too visually good to eat and the explosion of Peeps that threatens what were quaint candies.
A Make guide to choosing the right adhesive for your materials.
The Setup Wizard, an ongoing story in Tumblr posts about Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry's first Internet Technology department, from the perspective of those that work there.
An intricately detailed construction of the Batcave and Bat-vehicles out of Lego bricks.
And An attempt to create a secret society that fell victim to the same problems that plague social media.
The family tree of the gods of Egypt.
Many of the personal magical artifacts of Doreen Valiente will be displayed according to the work of her foundation.
The concept and practice of positional yoga is a recent development, as is most conceptions of yoga. Yoga is a changing thing, even as some practitioners want it very much to be older than it is. It appeals to those who would like to achieve a more practical, rather than ascetic, mysticism.
Various reasons why someone may choose not to respond to an argument you are making - most of the time, it has something to do with you tipping your hand that the argument will be more trouble than value.
If you are playing the loneliness game or are feeling down about the general state of the world, relief may be hiding in the pages of a spice catalog.
Bioluminescent spheres that glow brightly in the night. Which is neat. Many very cool women scientists working today is even better. As are women whose illustrations paved the way for entomology.
A debate on the validity and use of trigger warnings sparked by Stephen Fry saying that child abuse victims need to grow up (a statement for be had since apologized for) has more than a few sides coming out to play. For some, the use of warnings is being co-opted by those who want to bully using the rhetoric of a safe space. For others focusing on the warnings themselves obscures the point that trauma needs to be thought of and accommodated. Some rather disingenuously suggest that warnings are just ways for people to stifle ideas they don't want to hear. (That argument is ships passing in the night, and the corollary that says exposure is best for healing from trauma elides that most therapy should be done by therapists.)
The reality is likely in the middle - an idea that allows people to approach material with a thought in mind about what is contained within. There's an excellent set of things at
liv's, from where much of the links came. The discussion traverses much of the useful space regarding warnings and notes. One thing that might be with adding is the difference between causing offense and causing harm, in that warnings can avoid harm even if they cause offense.Protests erupted after the delivery of a not guilty verdict to Jian Ghomeshi on charges of sexual assault and choking women. Mostly because the judge rendered the verdict based on his suspicion that the victims were not telling the truth due to discrepancies in their stories. In essence, the judge did not believe the victims, and one can guess the sound of the facepalm involved. Then multiply it by the pervasive culture and incidents of harassment and assault in the United States Forest Service details in the Grand Canyon area. Essentially, to believe survivors and women means believing everything that happens to them, and not just one aspect of it. It gets difficult when two people in an argument are at non-parallel purposes.
The market for art pieces often involves shell companies, guaranteed minimums, and a lot of what looks like collusion long before something comes to market.
Arts education is suffering from an impression of not being essential. But it creates things like electrical distribution towers that look like stained glass structures.
The Simple Dollar has a simple idea - always delay your gratification until later and your bank account will enjoy it. This is a very simple rule. Also, entirely wrong in helping someone have enough pleasure in the short term to be able to tap that later pleasure. In much the same vein, habits that may help with success in life, although many of them are things that seem basic, like finding time to read and do creative expressions.
75 years of Make Way for Ducklings. That's a lot of copies, although I think Seuss might outlast even that. Related to that, the downside of being a phenomenon is when charity shops use copies of your book to build fortresses. For those that like papercraft, a Transformers pop-up book where the robots do the transformation.
Single panels of comics, that are hilarious outside of their context. Jokes that require understanding of more than one language to understand fully.
Cats protect paper from those that would feast on it, so they make natural companions to libraries and bookstores. And people are reading plenty, in formats that make sense to them.
Exporting Shelfari data and importing to LibraryThing will meet you a lifetime account with LT.
A thief nicked £600 from a small bookstore, and social media turned around and donated four times that within 24 hours of hearing about it, plus lots more books and some cookies. Because local bookstores and libraries are there for more than just books.
Young children get their first taste of journalism, which we put next to the nine year-old proprietor of the Orange Street News defending her decision to report hard news instead of fluff pieces.
Translating a work that has a major pedigree in its native language is a scary task - and sometimes produces multiple translations.
A state dinner speech from President Obama gave a joke to Cape Breton, which had been angling as a place for liberal Americans to go should Donald Trump be elected President. Then again, when you have a country where a couple can have boiling water poured on them, and then be pushed out of their house by a guest of the house, it doesn't seem like much of a joke anymore. And then there are people throwing pythons at others.
On, and did we mention North Carolina's government called an emergency session to override city nondiscrimination orders with a statewide ban on them. Which is going to die in a fire on the court challenge, but is still evidence of the animosity present toward minorities.
Politicians that attempt to cut disability benefits and don't apologize for it shouldn't be surprised when they have trouble doing anything else.
At least Scotland is officially recognizing a third gender.
Interesting places to put interesting bookstores. The best stationery stores in and around Tokyo. Photography that makes ordinary objects seem giant, as if one were seeing it from the perspective of The Borrowers. The library / museum of pigments, exceptionally useful for authenticating and dating paintings. Tiny scenes built into tiny boxes.
The gymnasts of the United States Olympic team demonstrate the power and flexibility that the sport demands.
Ernie Hudson in the Ghostbusters he signed on for, as opposed to what he actually got. Which appears to have an eerie mirror in the revival Ghostbusters' treatment of its black character. And also the way that John Cho has been treated as a sidekick and supporter even though he has the ability to be a lead.
Big Hero 6 is getting a television series.
The television show Elementary involves many sharply dressed men and women, with Lucy Liu as the beneficiary more often than not.
The hospital plot of Downton Abbey's sixth season may be the most relevant thing to today's society.
The person that you're silently judging in public spaces probably has already done enough judging of themselves beforehand. If, however, your like to contribute to making better portrayals of them in literature, writing them as characters who are, instead of making the stories about their thing, is a good idea. There is something to say about the society that surrounds them, a thing that is sufficiently vicious that they feel the need to talk and disclose their issues and problems before someone else can use them against them to get and silence them. Idris Elba spoke to Parliament about the need for greater diversity in television and movies. Beyond that, architecture also needs more women and classical musicians should have been keeping more of their women.
Often, the best way to shed anger is to reframe the narrative you are telling yourself. This may include having to forgive and set down the burdens of the past.
Sometimes, though, self-care means medicine and professionals, rather than things like wine and baths. Sometimes it means having to stabilize your own space before being able to help others on their journey. Self-care, however, also means avoiding the trap that you can and should only rely on you to get through everything. Which can be really tough, when you understand that almost everyone else has it worse. It can make you not want to use your social circle for fear of burdening them with something more that they shouldn't have to deal with.
Shifting the mental model from anxious to excited takes less cognitive load than shifting from anxious to calm.
Neurological damage can cause a shift in a person's sense of humor.
Travel advisories about visiting the United States highlight cultural differences.
Doing things by yourself is not a failure of having friends, but instead allows you to experience things at your own pace. Sometimes that means a better experience. High IQ people seem to have a better life experience with less socialization time, but I look a bit suspiciously about that, because some friends are people you enjoy hanging out with, and some people you hang out with are a serious drain. They are not often separated easily, so sometimes it means you have a small group you want to hang out with, rather than a large group where half of them you can't stand.
A sweater full of Neko Atsume characters, the wire sculpture work of Alexander Calder, drone photographs warping architecture, surpassed by pictures from space, and what happens when your opera is invaded by rock and roll.
Tea used to be condemned as an addictive substance, which is why so many science fiction novels have machines that make tea. Also, an infographic on method, placement, and time that food can be safely kept in storage.
Complaining about the youth of your time is at least as old as written language.
It's very easy for bad practices to become institutional and emphasis put in forcing people to adapt to bad things. That includes things like building architecture - designing space that the Deaf will be comfortable in requires a completely different set of norms than designing just for the hearing.
One hundred years of hairstyles for black men. And the degrees of kink and 'fro in black women.
Also important, the essentials of black science fiction.
Believable Chaos is a goal of worldbuilding in fiction. Also, options on what you can do when asked for revisions.
If you work with energy or creativity, enjoy the process of building the spell or the dream, instead of rushing to looking for the result. Pay attention to your energy and body, too, or else you may end up both miserable and exhausted.
We must keep the horrors of war fresh in our memory, lest we decide that we want to do it again. Artifacts help us with this - observe these musical instruments damaged by war.
Even as we work to eradicate epidemics that have killed millions, we must remember to care for those that have survived it at its worst. Which means realizing railing against pornography as a problem when the article itself points out that a lack of comprehensive sex education and consent training is the actual issue is unproductive. It shouldn't take public awareness guides, copious amounts of fanfic reading and writing, and experimentation to produce an informed population.
Calculating the cost of not being a straight man.
Yet another reason not to overgeneralize - the are still plenty of people who haven't had any sort of intimate relationship well past the point when someone assumes everyone has. And yes, single women are powerful, and at least some suggest that low expectations are the way to go in having a happy relationship and complain that older single people are looking for unicorns, but there are a lot more factors at work with regard to relationship status than someone's opinion of expectations. Having been in the smaller towns of the United States, anyone whose tastes doesn't match that of the majority may find themselves not very able to find suitable partners. For some, maintaining friendship and social engagement is tough enough. If you think that speed dating and dating apps are good ways of meeting people, open postures generate more interest, apparently.
A gallery of work inspired by Hayao Miyazaki with several very beautiful pieces.
Superhero stories that go for the grimdark are working against what superhero stories are generally designed for. This doesn't make them bad on face, but it does mean that simply going for violence and the like is likely to backfire.
A discovery of preserved bones in Ireland suggests that the was a native population on the island before the Celts arrived.
Backstage with Leslie Odom, Jr. in the last few minutes before a performance of Hamilton begins. Daveed Diggs on how a guy who wanted to do real ends up doing Broadway. Leslie Odom Jr, along for the ride. Along with Hamilton as a musical that's not about romanticizing its characters, the ways in which Hamilton fails at its mission, the frames that Hamilton chooses not to engage with, how just reading the words does not give you the full character, and the way that Burr is marked as something integral to the narrative right from the beginning.
A primer for rap and hip-hop based on what you like from Hamilton. And the charges of discrimination leveled against the way Hamilton advertised for cast - because a musical that asked for a nonwhite cast is remarkable and deserved scrutiny, while other casts that remain mostly white are just the default.
A documentary on the song We Shall Overcome has filed suit claiming the find itself is in the public domain and does not need licensing.
Given that we are entities that cannot yet defeat entropy, fertility problems from men as they age should probably not come as a surprise. Along with this, the logistics of oral sex and fairy contracts.
The are no roles in a fantastic or science fiction novel that cannot be filled by women, even if you intend your fantasy world to be a pastiche of a historical society. Because actual historical women did basically everything you can think of.
Shonda Rhimes on how taking more time away from work has allowed her to keep working at a higher level.
Tips for new writers - Wheaton's Law plus a few more. Then, beating writer blockages by engaging in creative exercises with private results. Suggestions on success using notebooks for your writing. A game that provides writing prompts based on the environment around the player. Advice on writing that suggests treating writing like work is not necessarily helpful. Technology that might help with thesis and other long form writing. A suggestion on writing a work with multiple points of view - choose the character that is receiving the key information - usually. And a short piece on how a book that didn't look like its peers helped someone choose writing.
Writing outside your experience is possible, but take care with doing so, considering how easy it is to screw something up - really screw it up. For example, autism doesn't always get a great representation in children's media. Writing queer characters needs to make them actually queer - and not give them a tragic ending. There are places where you can find disability-focused arts and other spaces, but it would be nice for the mainstream to adopt better things.
The discovery and pursuance of someone who is plagiarizing an author's work.
The good and not so good LBTQ movies on streaming services. And an analysis of just how much of film dialogue is dominated by men. Plus, a video on how much the Academy excludes movies from consideration for the Oscars.
An appreciation of a language often comes from having discomfort with it - and that includes languages like sign that use three-dimensional space to communicate.
Windows 10 may not be for everyone, including those on older machines.
New ways of looking and designing current-era technology and devices, including a nice toothpaste carton design.
A consequence of an insightful algorithm - Twitter taught a chatbot to be racist, transphobic, and anti-feminist.
The animation software that produced Futurama and several Ghibli films has a free and open source version, now so that those who want to use a professional program to animate their own work will have another option. In non-animated things, realistic Disney paintings, just because.
A lovely picture of the skies above. The benefits of having a 4K camera to shoot with, which mostly comes down to having a higher resolution to shoot with.
The increase of attacks that hold data for ransom is a bad thing - because the risk is low and the potential payoff is high, and the possibility of critical infrastructure and companies getting hit is also really bad.
A tour of the Kitsune Mura village for foxes, the acrobatics of the lion dance (and a glimpse at what training for that entails), a groomer that gives shelter dogs haircuts so that they can be at their prettiest, birdsong, at least in some species, has a syntax, watching a dog grow up a daysecond at a time, a seal lounging on the Charles River (that may have figured out how to get through the locks), wild tiger numbers have gone up for the first time in one hundred years, the newest cat from the Foreign Office, an octopus nopes out of the aquarium, pictures of the cherry blossoms in Japan, pictures taken of old trees, small dogs of large breeds, a kitsune in fox form at work, a penguin reuniting with the person that saved them, the cats that come to the table, communication with cats, animals getting proper pronouns rather than inanimate ones, the diversity of life in a small amount of seawater, a film festival of viral cat videos, the colors of peacock feathers, seen up close, using cats in urban areas to control the rat population, the evolution of incredibly powerful venom, a cat that believes the fish in the table is for him, a slow-motion capture of the body twisting cats go through to land themselves on their feet, and a museum cat that is the official greeter, much like the stationmaster cat, Tama II, in Japan.
Last for tonight, the many flavors of potato chip in Canada, next to an embroidery-icing technique to make cookies that are too visually good to eat and the explosion of Peeps that threatens what were quaint candies.
A Make guide to choosing the right adhesive for your materials.
The Setup Wizard, an ongoing story in Tumblr posts about Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry's first Internet Technology department, from the perspective of those that work there.
An intricately detailed construction of the Batcave and Bat-vehicles out of Lego bricks.
And An attempt to create a secret society that fell victim to the same problems that plague social media.
