pandiculation /pan-dik-yoo-LAY-shən/. noun. Stretching and yawning, as when first waking up. Rarely, just yawning. From Latin pandiculari, from pendere (to stretch).
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Links: July 9, 2017
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Privacy as we think of it is a new (and deeply endangered) thing. → The Birth And Death Of Privacy: 3,000 Years of History Told Through 46 Images.
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The Positive Lexicography Project is “an evolving index of ‘untranslatable’ words related to wellbeing from across the world’s languages” from Afrikaans to Zulu/Xhosa.
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The 174 videos in the Japanology series cover everything from mushrooms to swords to cram schools and Shinto shrines. Clamorites might enjoy starting with stationery. [Thanks, Reader B.]
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This poet is riding through Denver delivering dreams to doorsteps. Nightmares cost extra.
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Wikipedia: The Text Adventure turns Wikipedia into an interactive, text-based game. Zorks!
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Is the tilde the sarcasm punctuation mark we’ve been looking for? → The Internet Tilde Perfectly Conveys Something We Don’t Have the Words to Explain
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Fascinating to think that the first inventors to record sound never listened to it…they were only interested in the visual picture… → At The Dawn Of Recorded Sound, No One Cared
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On squicks and squees and re-imaging the (tagging) vocabulary of porn → Can These Pornographers End ‘MILFs,’ ‘Teens,’ and ‘Thugs’? :: Balances well with The More Things Change, which examines how, with sex and sexual practices, the more things change, the more things, well, change.
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A Piece of Work is everything you wanted to know about modern and contemporary art but were afraid to ask … In this 10-episode podcast series, [Broad City’s] Abbi [Jacobson] looks for some answers in lively conversations with curators, artists, and some friends, including Hannibal Buress, Tavi Gevinson, RuPaul, and Questlove.
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Today in 1850, a 30-year old Persian merchant known as the Báb (birth name: Sayyed ʿAli Muhammad Shirāzi) is executed for apostasy in Tabriz, Iran. Accounts differ in drama—members of the Baha’i Faith (of which his teachings were the forerunner) tell a story in which the firing squad’s bullets sever his ropes and the Báb disappears…finally being found in another part of the barracks calmly dictating to his secretary—but all agree that the first volley harmed neither the Báb nor Anís, a young follower, who had been suspended 10 feet above the ground for the execution, and they both had to be rounded up, re-bound, and finally killed by a second volley.
Beckett
Beckett is the trailer for “A short lived detective drama from 1972” starring Sam Beckett as Beckett the private eye, Andre the Giant as Little Bim (longtime Clamorites may remember some links to the story of Beckett and Andre’s unexpected real-life relationship), Jean Paul Sartre as Walleye Molloy and Jean Cocteau as Huggy Bear. I want to live in the alternate reality where this isn’t an alternate reality.
Drumming Palm Cockatoos
Other than humans, the palm cockatoo is the only other species who make, and make music with, a musical tool → Birds play sick jungle beat with drumsticks they make themselves. See also, the longer but interesting scientific abstract video that goes behind the scenes of the 6000+ hours effort to film more than 60 drumming events.
from Wise Blood (Flannery O’Connor)
“…Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.”
“Nothing outside you can give you any place,” he said. “You needn’t look to the sky because it’s not going to open up and show no place behind it. You needn’t to search for any hole in the ground to look through into somewhere else. You can’t go neither forwards nor backwards into your daddy’s time nor your children’s if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you’ve got.”
—Flannery O’Connor
—from Wise Blood
falcate
falcate /FOWL-kayt/. adjective. Sickle shaped. Hooked. Curved to a point. From Latin falcem (sickle) + -ate (resembling). Not to be confused with defalcate (to embezzle, sadly not pronounced to rhyme with defecate).
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Links: July 2, 2017
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The Boise Public Library has installed a vending machine for personal, handwritten letters. → The Letter Box Project
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Salvador Dali’s body to be exhumed to resolve paternity case
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Sometimes you just need a little good news (and if the comment(er)s are lousy, don’t tell me about it). → Strangers buy car for 20-year-old Texas man who walks 3 miles to work every day
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And the data are in…yay scIEnce. → The ‘i before e, except after c’ rule is a giant lie
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8 compelling cats that changed Russian culture. [Thanks, Reader A.!]
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Up a wombat’s freckle: Barry Humphries on the development of Australian slang [Thanks, Reader B.!]
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Baby steps… → How to capture videos of brains in real time: Watching mice think as they walk
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The Cognitive Bias Codex visually organizes more than 180 ways we “think in certain ways that can lead to systematic deviations from a standard of rationality or good judgment.”
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Highlights from the most recent additions to the Oxford English Dictionary, including “woke,” a new sense of “thing” (originating, in recorded form at least, on the television show The West Wing), the “particle zoo,” and “post-truth.”
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Today in 1990, 1,426 people are suffocated and trampled to death in a tunnel near Mecca during the Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to the city of Mecca. The stampede started when seven people fell from a pedestrian bridge onto pilgrims exiting the tunnel below, causing panic exacerbated by failed ventilation in the 110°F heat. Amazingly, this wasn’t the most deadly such incident: at least 2,236 pilgrims were killed in the 2015 “Mina Stampede.”
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