"Listening habits from the dawn of Islam helped Auto-Tune mean so much here." Melisma—moving across several notes while singing one syllable—characterizes the best of African-American R&B, such as the heart-stopping introduction to Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love
“Nobody really wants to advertise that they filter their beer through dead fish.” Isinglass, a coloring agent made from fish swim bladders, renders many British ales unfriendly to vegetarians—not that many of them know about it. The additive is much less common in German, Belgian, and American varieties. / BBC
House Intelligence Committee Asks Obama to Just Say No House Intelligence Committee sends a bipartisan letter to President Obama urging him not to pardon Snowden, reminding him that he said in a news conference in 2013, “I don’t think Mr. Snowden was a patriot.” ↩︎ posted Sept. 16, 2016 The
Nuclear-armed militaries rely on getting every detail right; Command and Control is the story of a day when they didn't. "What followed this initial “human error” was a desperate attempt by Air Force personnel at all levels, weapons designers, and first-responders (most of them in
Is it just us, or does the new White Stripes video, directed by Michel Gondry, look a bit like someone filmed Christoph Niemann taking his morning shower?
Duterte has made waves for targeting drug users, but he also plans to go after Abu Sayyaf, a jihadist group that has pledged allegiance to ISIS. Recently they beheaded a teenage ransom, and affiliates claimed responsibility for a bombing in Duterte’s hometown that killed more than a dozen. / newsinfo.
Speed record for person on a skateboard reaches 89.41 mph—and our feet sweat just thinking about that fact, let alone watching it happen.
LA's famed Grand Central Market, as seen above in lovely archival footage from 1963, is today incredibly gentrified and incredibly in debt, writes Jesse Katz in Los Angeles magazine.
Many states with legal medical cannabis programs exempt wide swaths of useful information that would generally be available to the public under freedom of information laws from disclosure, a review by TMN’s Sam Stecklow found. / thekindland.com Related: Illinois, one of the states with the most restrictive measures in
Oh good, drone surfing is a thing (for $17,000). Perhaps to be enjoyed by those who can afford architectural porn on the hills of Jackson Hole. On a more serious note: "Can drones protect India's women from rapists?"
