Monday, November 04, 2019

Magic Mushrooms: A woman of a Certain Age

Stephanie Edwards of Roseville likes to needle authority: “I belong to a group of ‘women of a certain age’ who recycle fabric into ‘Boomerang bags’ to leave outside supermarkets. If Scott Morrison outlaws our boycott of the plastic bag industry, civil disobedience will be the order of the day - we will just keep sewing

In this video, dialect coach Erik Singer explains how to tell similar accents apart, like Australia & New Zealand, Philly & NYC, and North England & South England.

Washington Post – “Just when you thought we had hit rock bottom on all the ways the Internet could snoop on us — no. We’ve sunk even lower. There’s a tactic spreading across the Web named after treatment usually reserved for criminals: fingerprinting. At least a third of the 500 sites Americans visit most often use hidden code to run an identity check on your computer or phone.

Four ways that falling back from Daylight Saving Time can kill you TreeHugger
From Metrobits, a fantastic resource for all things to do with metros and subways around the world, comes this collection of metro logos (older page w/ larger logos here).


At any given moment more than a dozen interstellar visitors at least as large as ‘Oumuamua are passing through the Solar System


Some absolutely gorgeous mushroom and myxomycetes pictures by Photographer Alison Pollack who gets close to the ground with a magnifying glass to find her subjects.
Fairbanks Hysarum FS15


The smaller they are, the more challenging they are to photograph, but I absolutely love the challenge, [m]y goal is to show people the beauty of these tiny treasures that are all around the forest but barely visible unless you look very very closely.


 How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. "What would it be like to live in a city administered using the business model of Amazon (or Apple, IKEA, Spotify, Tinder, Uber, etc.)?"