top of the heap to third world status in one generation

[Gry]

Inventing the Beach: The Unnatural History of a Natural Place


The seashore used to be a scary place, then it became a place of respite and vacation. What happened?
Inventing the Beach: The Unnatural History of a Natural Place

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...y-of-a-natural-place?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

Julian Assange: what to expect from the extradition appeal
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...-appeal-us-assurances-to-challenge-legal-team

 

[Gry]

Gave up watching TV long ago, but have recently been watching various people on youtube as entertainment.
Odd to see how people that grew up with TV act when generating content. The gentleman below just glistens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-La_UpViLSk

 

[Gry]

White Settlers Wiped Miles of Cherokee Trails Off the Map. This Man Is Reclaiming Them.


These routes once snaked through the towering woods of Appalachia, before they were lost to history. Lamar Marshall has spent a decade painstakingly mapping them, and their rich history.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...n-is-reclaiming-them?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[h.h.]

White Settlers Wiped Miles of Cherokee Trails Off the Map. This Man Is Reclaiming Them.


These routes once snaked through the towering woods of Appalachia, before they were lost to history. Lamar Marshall has spent a decade painstakingly mapping them, and their rich history.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...n-is-reclaiming-them?utm_source=pocket-newtab

3% wanna be Indian land surveyor with a hundred acres of “no trespassing “ signs talking about how the natives were unfairly pushed off of their land. We’re so wrapped up in society, we don’t smell our own shit.

 

[Gry]

How the West Was Lost


In America’s first climate war, John Wesley Powell tried to prevent the overdevelopment that led to environmental devastation.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-the-west-was-lost

 

[Gry]

The Answer to Lactose Intolerance Might Be in Mongolia


Mongolians’ DNA says they can’t digest milk, yet their diet relies on dairy. A researcher investigates why.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...might-be-in-mongolia?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Hammerhead]

Facebook changes its company name to Meta
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/28/tech/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-keynote-announcements/index.html

 

[Cannavore]

here's a documentary for some friday night viewing lol

gore vidal the american presidency

i remember reading this 100 page book 20yrs ago

 

[Gry]

We are so divided now’: how China controls thought and speech beyond its borders

The arrest of a Tibetan New York city cop on spying charges plays into the community’s long-held suspicions that the People’s Republic is watching them

https://www.theguardian.com/news/20...h-beyond-its-borders?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[h.h.]

Don’t believe corporate America’s “labor shortage” bullshit. This is an unofficial general strike.


https://robertreich.org/post/665759539648413696

 

[Gry]

Don’t believe corporate America’s “labor shortage” bullshit. This is an unofficial general strike.


https://robertreich.org/post/665759539648413696

Strong content

Corporate America is trying to frame this as a “labor shortage.”

But what’s really happening is more accurately described as a living-wage shortage, a hazard pay shortage, a childcare shortage, a paid sick leave shortage, and a health care shortage.

Unless these shortages are rectified, this unofficial general strike will continue.
Salute !

 

[Gry]

How Do Bad Cops Stay in Power? Just Look at Miami.


“This is my neighborhood and I run this shit the way I want to,” police Capt. Javier Ortiz allegedly told a man who wanted to file an Internal Affairs complaint against him.
https://www.politico.com/news/magaz...t-protections-516231?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

Why Bats Are One of Evolution’s Greatest Puzzles


Paleontologists seek the ancestors that could explain how bats became the only flying mammals.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...n-s-greatest-puzzles?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

Domestic horses' mysterious origins may finally be revealed

About 4,200 years ago, horseback riding allowed people to travel farther and faster than ever before, spurring migration throughout Europe and Asia.

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.u...-finally-be-revealed?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

Could Weirdly Straight Bolts of Lightning Be a Sign of Dark Matter?


A group of scientists say the phenomenon could indicate dark matter speeding through our world at more than 300 miles a second.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...-sign-of-dark-matter?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

Keep a bolt on string hanging near by as a quick earthquake detector.
Just had a small one, the bolt is not bouncing, but it is swaying real well as if
there were a strong breeze.

 

[buzzmobile]

Keep a bolt on string hanging near by as a quick earthquake detector.
Just had a small one, the bolt is not bouncing, but it is swaying real well as if
there were a strong breeze.

That's what I use for a hurricane detector, Gry. When the string is parallel to the ground there is a Cat 5 outside.

I have never experienced an earthquake. I have heard it can be a terrifying experience.

 

[h.h.]

That's what I use for a hurricane detector, Gry. When the string is parallel to the ground there is a Cat 5 outside.

I have never experienced an earthquake. I have heard it can be a terrifying experience.

Earthquakes are fun when you have good building codes.

 

[Gry]

That's what I use for a hurricane detector, Gry. When the string is parallel to the ground there is a Cat 5 outside.

I have never experienced an earthquake. I have heard it can be a terrifying experience.

Qualifies as one of those things best experienced vicariously.