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The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic National economies collapse; species go extinct; political movements rise and fizzle. But — somehow, for some reason — Weird Al keeps rocking. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/magazine/weird-al-yankovic.html
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Apr 10, 2020 10:40
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Apr 10, 2020 12:26
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Porfiriato posted:The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic That was a fantastic read.
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Apr 10, 2020 14:31
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0QbbnIYa0M
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Apr 10, 2020 16:00
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Apr 10, 2020 18:07
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I thought this was interesting. It's long for a comic, bit not actually super long form https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-comic-strip-tour-of-the-wild-world-of-pandemic-modeling/ 538 and SMBC cartoonist do an explanation of why the current virus models are kind of crap. Not in a nationalistic finger pointing way but more from a data science perspective.
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Apr 13, 2020 20:00
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Here's an interesting article - short on text but rich with photographs - about the final voyage of the ship Endurance, carrying Sir Ernest Shackleton on a doomed voyage to Antarctica. In a incredible triumph of survival, the entire crew made it through the ordeal https://mashable.com/2015/10/10/the-endurance/?utm https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/shackleton/
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Apr 15, 2020 23:23
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Polar exploration is an interest of mine, especially at the moment when I'll read almost anything that isn't COVID related. Definitely gonna read this when I'm on my laptop so the pictures will load better. Thanks! I had to unsubscribe from Long Reads emails because I have no time to read the articles, but as I go through my backlog I'll try to post the best here.
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Apr 16, 2020 04:06
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Here's an interesting article - short on text but rich with photographs - about the final voyage of the ship Endurance, carrying Sir Ernest Shackleton on a doomed voyage to Antarctica. In a incredible triumph of survival, the entire crew made it through the ordeal Those are really good. I learned about this when I went on a Patagonian cruise last year. It’s a story that I’m sure Hollywood could do justice, but I don’t trust them not to screw it up. Those photos make me think of the first season of The Terror, except for real and at the opposite end of the world.
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Apr 17, 2020 11:59
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Alfred Lansing's book, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, is the amazing story of the voyage if you're interested. From Wikipedia: "Virtually every diary kept during the expedition was made available to the author, and almost all the surviving members at the time of writing submitted to lengthy interviews. The most significant contribution came from Dr. Alexander Macklin, one of the ship's surgeons, who provided Lansing with many diaries, a detailed account of the perilous journey the crew made to Elephant Island, and months of advice". I read it quite a few years ago, loved it, and have never forgotten it.
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Apr 17, 2020 13:09
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Alfred Lansing's book, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, is the amazing story of the voyage if you're interested. From Wikipedia: "Virtually every diary kept during the expedition was made available to the author, and almost all the surviving members at the time of writing submitted to lengthy interviews. The most significant contribution came from Dr. Alexander Macklin, one of the ship's surgeons, who provided Lansing with many diaries, a detailed account of the perilous journey the crew made to Elephant Island, and months of advice". Agreed. The whole thing is quite astounding.
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Apr 17, 2020 15:27
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Cacafuego posted:Those are really good. I learned about this when I went on a Patagonian cruise last year. It’s a story that I’m sure Hollywood could do justice, but I don’t trust them not to screw it up. Those photos make me think of the first season of The Terror, except for real and at the opposite end of the world. The Terror is based on a real story, they just added a monster to make it less spooky.
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Apr 17, 2020 15:39
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There's a recreation documentary called "Chasing Shackleton" where these guys take a replica of the James Caird and follow Shackleton's journey, complete with period accurate clothing, supplies, and navigation. It looks absolutely miserable. I don't know where you can watch it now, though.
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Apr 18, 2020 01:01
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:There's a recreation documentary called "Chasing Shackleton" where these guys take a replica of the James Caird and follow Shackleton's journey, complete with period accurate clothing, supplies, and navigation. It looks absolutely miserable. Thanks for sharing this! Now I've got to find it and check it out.
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Apr 18, 2020 02:32
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Thanks for sharing this! Now I've got to find it and check it out. https://www.pbs.org/show/chasing-shackleton/
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Apr 18, 2020 03:50
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FrozenVent posted:The Terror is based on a real story, they just added a monster to make it less spooky. I've read two excellent books on the search for the Northwest Passage and both detailed the Franklin Expedition. Arctic Labyrinth: The Quest for the Northwest Passage (Glyn Williams) The Man Who Ate His Boots (Anthony Brandt) The latter has more Franklin Expedition history, while the former has better stories about other explorers. The Franklin Expedition does have updates since the publication of the two books. Both the Erebus and Terror have been found. Artifacts. At least some good came out of the Franklin disaster - everyone's attempts at finding the crew led to huge chunks of Canada being mapped for the first time.
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Apr 18, 2020 04:35
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Colleague sets a man up to appear as a terrorist because he's getting attention from a girl that he's crushing on. He's brown so of course this went way beyond where it should have.
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Apr 22, 2020 01:46
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What immunity to Covid-19 might actually mean A friend who has a PhD in immunology posted this on Facebook.
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Apr 24, 2020 18:44
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FILM FROM THE ASHES - A beautiful but deadly art is reborn at the Nitrate Picture Show
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Apr 25, 2020 16:08
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ultrafilter posted:What immunity to Covid-19 might actually mean Thanks this was really informative.
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Apr 25, 2020 16:49
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Lord Zedd-Repulsa posted:Polar exploration is an interest of mine, especially at the moment when I'll read almost anything that isn't COVID related. Definitely gonna read this when I'm on my laptop so the pictures will load better. Thanks! The Worst Journey in the World is a great read about Scott's 1910 Antarctic expedition, which ended poorly.
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Apr 25, 2020 19:25
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I have a whole collection of disastrous explorations on my Kindle. Here are the polar ones: --Island of the Lost by Joan Druett. Two different ships wreck on the same island 285 miles south of New Zealand at the same time in 1864. They face the same struggles, but one crew fares much better than the other. --Endurance by Alfred Lansing. Shackleton. Nothing more needs to be said. --Alone on the Ice by David Roberts. Douglas Mawson, exploring Antarctica in 1912, has some very bad luck. --Frozen in Time by Owen Beatty. The exhumation and study of the mummified bodies of the first three men to die on Franklin's Northwest Passage. This has color pictures and did not translate well to the Kindle. I believe there is a Polar Disaster Literature thread in the Book Barn as well. HelloIAmYourHeart has a new favorite as of 01:45 on May 10, 2020 |
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Apr 26, 2020 03:12
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Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing
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Apr 30, 2020 17:32
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Endurance is a fantastic book. I don't even know where I got it, it just showed up in my house one day and I read it in one sitting. I can't even imagine going through all of that.
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May 9, 2020 07:38
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The Real Lord of the Flies. This is uplifting as gently caress and nothing like the work of fiction.
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May 10, 2020 10:43
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https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-the-world-s-only-feudal-lord-outclassed-the-nazis-to-save-her-people?utm_source=pocket-newtab How the World’s Only Feudal Lord Outclassed the Nazis to Save Her People
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May 11, 2020 14:50
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Not so much a longform article but it's long. An oral history of Mad Max: Fury Road
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May 16, 2020 03:24
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Not the longest article but kinda mindblowing that there were Australian Aboriginals living traditionally right up until after I was born. The day the Pintupi Nine entered the modern world quote:In 1984 a group of Australian Aboriginal people living a traditional nomadic life were encountered in the heart of the Gibson desert in Western Australia. They had been unaware of the arrival of Europeans on the continent, let alone cars - or even clothes.
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May 16, 2020 18:19
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Inceltown posted:The Real Lord of the Flies. Ah heck I'm all tearful now.
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May 16, 2020 18:33
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A Biblical Mystery at Oxford ... and Washington and Waco and Syria. A tale about lost manuscripts and archaeology, where it's not so much a question of who's lying as how many different people are lying.
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May 17, 2020 06:19
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And a related one from a few years earlier: the unbelievable story of Jesus's wife
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May 17, 2020 16:31
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nonathlon posted:And a related one from a few years earlier: the unbelievable story of Jesus's wife What an amazing article; thank you!
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May 17, 2020 17:47
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The Doting Boyfriend Who Robbed Armored Cars A tip to the FBI meant their main suspect in a string of ultra-violent armored car robberies was someone nobody would have suspected.
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May 17, 2020 18:00
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America’s Patchwork Pandemic Is Fraying Even Further e: Also We Are All Professionals Now: Or, How Did Grocery Workers Become Essential “Heroes”? ultrafilter has a new favorite as of 18:11 on May 20, 2020 |
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May 20, 2020 17:53
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This has been a great page of content
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May 21, 2020 13:16
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Randaconda posted:https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-the-world-s-only-feudal-lord-outclassed-the-nazis-to-save-her-people?utm_source=pocket-newtab Yeah this is now one of my favorite articles
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May 21, 2020 17:06
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This article about diabetes and amputations in the Mississippi delta was posted in the covid-19 thread in cspam in response to a doctor sharing a story about a womans rotting foot from a 'spider bite' and her fear of being admitted to hospital due to the virus.FacebookEmpathyMom posted:Not exactly an identical situation but this is a harrowing read https://features.propublica.org/diabetes-amputations/black-american-amputation-epidemic/
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May 29, 2020 02:47
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ultrafilter posted:e: Also We Are All Professionals Now: Or, How Did Grocery Workers Become Essential “Heroes”? This links to a Twitter post about monkeys.
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It's a good post, but this is what I meant to put there.
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