A brief profile of Maine potter Ayumi Horie, who co-runs The Democratic Cup, turning pottery into a political act. / VICE A Hawaii federal judge places a stronger hold on Trump’s travel ban—all but ensuring it’ll go to the Supreme Court. / USA Today “Chris Sgro, executive director
Finally, our minds can rest: Why knights fight snails in the marginalia of medieval manuscripts. See original research paper here.
#ThanksForTyping hashtag finds the many times that wives did all the work for their author husbands. / Buzzfeed The Zombie round opens with Buzzfeed’s Isaac Fitzgerald reading The Nix and The Underground Railroad. / The Tournament of Books Hyperrealistic drawings by Nigerian artist Arinze Stanley, painstakingly rendered in charcoal and graphite.
Because sometimes you just want to watch an armadillo dig a hole for four minutes. H/t The Kid Should See This
“In an interview, Gyasi said she made sure to keep each chapter around 25 or 30 pages—and that she was never really tempted to break this rule—but there’s no such economy in The Nix’s logorrheic prose, which coils and spins at least three or four distinct
A short, wordless documentary on how to make a dugout canoe using traditional hand tools and techniques. The master woodworker in this movie is Richard (Rihards Vidzickis) - an experienced green wood worker, wood sculptor and dugout canoe maker. Richard’s passion to green wood and solid wood creations has grown
“Air-Ink” is made from soot captured from car exhausts and chimneys, with a “really deep black tone.” / It’s Nice That An average of 3,600 fewer people would die per year if hospitals always acted like inspectors were overseeing them. / STAT Scientists use spinach leaves to build working
Scientists use spinach leaves to build working human heart muscle—a whole new way to "grow" a vascular system.
Documenting 18 straight hours of Fox News apologia and rhetorical gymnastics in support of the Trump Administration. / The New York Times
The hardest cases for an insect detective involve “delusional parasitosis,” or bugs that aren’t really there. / STAT What is populism? A type of politics that promises to protect and empower “the people” against “corrupt elites.” / Government and Opposition Ltd. A mathematician explains why, if you use bricks as dominoes,
