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Friday, 26 April 2024

Most people are disgusted by these animals. These New Yorkers are filling their homes with them.

quote [ In NYC, many wildlife rehabbers see pests as part of a thriving urban ecosystem. ]

If I mend your broken wing
will you look back as you fly away?
[SFW] [environment & nature]
[by ScoobySnacks@9:36amGMT] [2 comments]

Thursday, 25 April 2024

Inside the Kenyan cult that starved itself to death

quote [ During covid-19 a preacher lured thousands of people into a remote forest. Then he told them to stop eating ]

Guidance guidance through a cult

[SFW] [people] [+2 WTF]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:04amGMT] [1 comment]

Wednesday, 24 April 2024

The Waning Reign of the Wetland Architect We Barely Know (Hint: Not a Beaver)

quote [ Little-appreciated, semiaquatic, and cute-as-hell, muskrats can survive almost anywhere. So where are they? ]

And they whirl and they twirled and they tango
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+1 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:03amGMT] [0 comments]

Tuesday, 23 April 2024

The Swinging Cabin of SS Bessemer

quote [ English inventor Sir Henry Bessemer, renowned for his groundbreaking steel manufacturing process that still bears his name, once lamented, “Few persons have suffered more severely than I have from sea sickness.” ]

Stormin' makin waves till I'm gettin' motion sickness
[SFW] [history] [+3 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:03amGMT] [1 comment]

Monday, 22 April 2024

Can Volunteering With WWOOF Change Organic Farming?

quote [ The nonprofit turns organic farms into vacation spots with the goal of teaching people about sustainability ]

Things ain't working out down at the farm
[SFW] [people] [+2]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT] [0 comments]



Sunday, 21 April 2024

Trip’s Big Interactive Reset

quote [ Why 3DO’s true innovation wasn’t its early 3D hardware, but its business model—a model that perfectly matches its founder’s philosophy. ]

They get left in the dust like Panasonic 3DO
[SFW] [history] [+2 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:01amGMT] [0 comments]

Saturday, 20 April 2024

The Snowdrop: Lost In the Arctic

quote [ In 1908, a small Scottish whaling ship was wrecked in the Arctic waters between Greenland and Canada. The crew became trapped with a community of Inuit on a frozen archipelago. They had little food or shelter, and winter was approaching. Facing frostbite and starvation, a young seaman set off with his Inuit friends on a hundreds-of-miles journey across broken ice floes, vast glaciers, and berg-filled seas on an epic quest to find help. ]

Snowdrop (take a, take a breath)
[SFW] [history] [+1 Original]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:01amGMT] [0 comments]

Friday, 19 April 2024

Trembling Earth

quote [ What can 24 nights solo in our endangered Okefenokee Swamp reveal? Photographer David Walter Banks found something wild and haunting and alive. This is his tale - in words and art. ]

Through the Okefenokee I waded pass the gators
[SFW] [environment & nature] [+1 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:00amGMT] [0 comments]

Thursday, 18 April 2024

Pseudo-Boccaccio, Yiddish Pulp Fiction, and the Man Who Ripped Off Joyce

quote [ In 1927, a pair of lurid “translations” appeared in English, marketed as authentic tales by Giovanni Boccaccio and illustrated with supposedly new works by Aubrey Beardsley. Jonah Lubin and Maria Laurids Lazzarotti search for the origin of these fakes, in which illicit sex begets terrible violence, and uncover a story involving pseudotranslation, Yiddish shund literature, and the piracy king of literary modernism, Samuel Roth. ]

In una cornice di Giovanni Boccaccio
[NSFW] [history] [+1 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:01amGMT] [0 comments]

Wednesday, 17 April 2024

The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat

quote [ How one crew risked radiation, storms, and currents to save Japan from digital isolation. ]

This internet thang
[SFW] [science & technology] [+2 Underrated]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:05amGMT] [0 comments]



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