You should read this for 4/8/2018:
Art and Film
Introduce Your Kid to This Database of Paper Airplanes
Apple’s one-of-a-kind invitation art The art for the 350 invitation sent to journalists regarding the October 30th Apple event in Brooklyn, N.Y was different for each invitation. They’re all shown here.
Books, Writing, and Language
Browsing the Stacks: A Photo Appreciation of Libraries Some stunning and amazing libraries photographed, from all over the world. Much as I love my local public library in Seattle, there are many wonderful and beautiful libraries elsewhere.
Education and Academe
Via The Chronicle: What the ‘Grievance Studies’ Hoax Means
Does the hoax identify something uniquely rotten in gender and sexuality studies, or could it just as easily have targeted other fields? Is it a salutary correction or a reactionary hit job? And what does it portend for already imperiled fields? The Chronicle Review asked scholars from a variety of disciplines.
Via TLS: Tim Crane The peer review industry: implausible and outrageous
Browsing the Stacks: A Photo Appreciation of Libraries Some stunning and amazing libraries photographed, from all over the world.
Food and Drink
Grand Street Hot Toddy Cocktail “This low-alcohol drink mixes chamomile tea, amaro and sweet vermouth into a warm easy-sipping cocktail.”
History and Archaeology
The Hobby Lobby-funded Bible Museum says five of its Dead Sea Scrolls are fakes
Archaeologists discover a 2,400-year-old shipwreck, perfectly preserved
Ancient Stories Could Be More Fact Than Fiction
The Tjapwurung, an Aboriginal people in what is now southern Australia, shared the story of this bird hunt from generation to generation across an unbelievably large slice of time—many more millennia than one might think possible. The birds (most likely the species with the scientific name Genyornis newtoni) memorialized in this tale are now long extinct.
Archaeologists have discovered two previously unknown forms of spearpoint technology at a site in Texas. The triangular blades appear to be older than the projectile points produced by the Paleoamerican Clovis culture, an observation that’s complicating our understanding of how the Americas were colonized—and by whom.
Science and Nature
Magnificent “Voyager of the Moons” GIF from Cassini’s images from Jupiter and Saturn
Kevin M. Gill, a software engineer and data wrangler at NASA-JPL, created the fantastic video below “using still images taken by the Cassini spacecraft during its flyby of Jupiter and while at Saturn.”
The New Science of Sex and Gender
Society
‘It’s OK to be ourselves’: Atlanta’s black LGBT community in their own words
Technology
NASA brings a Hubble gyro back to life after a seven-year hibernation
💩🔥💰Trumpery
Groping suspect says 💩🔥💰 said it was OK to grab women
Why the Trump Administration’s New Gender Definition Worries Doctors “Discrimination against trans people is rife in the medical field, and it could get even worse if sex is defined as unchangeable.” Trump’s gender policy is both cruel and scientifically bankrupt
The administration’s definition of sex isn’t grounded in science. Even outside of transgender people, medical notions of gender rarely fit into two absolute, immutable, and mutually exclusive categories. There are lots of well-documented conditions where a person’s gender diverges from what their genes or genitals would indicate.
Trump’s midterms strategy: Lying his ass off to scare white people into voting Republican
Women’s Work
New Online: Diarist Documents Eventful Times on the Confederate Home Front
Women and girls are harassed ‘relentlessly’ from a young age, government report says
Women and girls are enduring street harassment “so frequently” that it is normalised to become “a routine part of everyday life,” a new government report has found.
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The Trump administration says there are two sexes. The science says they’re wrong.
For example, babies with male chromosomes (XY) can can be born with testes but ambiguous genitalia, which can raise questions of gender assignment. Some women naturally produce lots of testosterone. People born with two XX chromosomes — who are typically female — may have a specific gene for male genitalia. And some people live for decades unaware that they share attributes of both sexes.
Pay It Forward and Make It Better
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How to be an ally who stands with transgender people
Stephen King sells film rights for story to Welsh teenagers for $1
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