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"SomaFM is an independent Internet-only streaming multi-channel radio station, supported entirely with donations from listeners. SomaFM originally started broadcasting out of founder Rusty Hodge's basement garage in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, as a micropower radio station broadcast at the Burning Man festival in 1999. The response to the project was sufficiently positive that Rusty Hodge launched it as a full-time internet...

Via Americans of Conscience Checklist: Rural organizers and grassroots leaders in the U.S. form the Rural Defenders Union to support under-resourced anti-authoritarian actions."In most rural places, we are facing a generational crisis. Compared to our parents' generation, jobs are harder to get, they pay less, and they are harder to keep. Suicide, mental illness, incarceration, divorce, liver disease, family separation, and overdose deaths are...

What Happened in Alabama? "is a [podcast] series born out of personal experiences of intergenerational trauma, and the impacts of [American] Jim Crow [laws] that exist beyond what we understand about segregation. "But while my dad was happy at church, nightmares interrupted his sleep sometimes. He'd wake up screaming, startling the whole house. It scared me so much as a kid. "One morning, I...

My Dinners With Harold: How a shy Ph.D. in English literature revolutionized the science of cooking and became revered in the most famous kitchens in the worldA Dinner Encounter with Author Harold McGee: Science, Surprises, and Culinary Tales (previously) What the fuss is about.

How Bryan Johnson, Who Wants to Live Forever, Sought Control via Confidentiality Agreements Another day, another skeevy CEO. This one combines sexual creepiness, drugs, wishing he had Elon's popularity, and oh yeah, he started his own religion. And he's not going to die!This guy cracks me up in the bad way: * ex-Mormon, divorced his wife to bang around and drug up * thinks...

The inspiration behind the scheme was a charming-sounding CIA boss called George Minden, who believed, quite rightly, that the freedom to read good literature was as important to the imprisoned minds of the Soviet empire as any other form of freedom. During most of the 1980s the CIA was run by a rather tiresome, boisterous adventurer called Bill Casey, who was appointed by Ronald...

I like this advice to architects e.g. 23. How to turn a corner. 24. How to design a corner. 25. How to sit in a corner.

These 7 Liqueurs Are Distinctly Canadian and Just a Little Strange Liqueurs are as distinctive as the places they come from and Canadian liqueurs are just as unusual.Or perhaps you would like to make your own? I have a black walnut tree in my backyard so nocino is something I might want to give a go. That recipe takes 6 months and possibly some...

"It was a matter of some consternation to Danny's friends and family that he seemed to be enjoying life so much at the end," says a friend. "'Why stop now?' we begged him. And though I still wish he had given us more time, it is the case that in following this carefully thought-out plan, Danny was able to create a happy ending to...

Ethiopian wolves may be pollinating Ethiopian red hot poker plants. The wolves have been observed moving[YT] from plant to plant licking nectar and coincidentally getting a muzzle full of pollen. If the wolves are confirmed to be pollinating these flowers they'd be the largest carnivorous mammals to act as pollinators by far.Ethiopian wolves previously.

Crabs could be key to tackling secret army of starfish destroying the Great Barrier Reef (Australia). Researchers have found crabs are key predators of juvenile crown-of-thorns starfish and could be a hidden link to what controls their destructive spread.

Nick Soulsby: The soundtrack to Blade Runner remains a singular achievement; a soundtrack that invoked the past and the future, that remained suspended like Schrödinger's cat in a state of unresolved being, that plays ancestor to an impressive clutch of modern musical forms while simultaneously sounding like a product of the modern age, or the first fruit of music yet to come.Mike Vale: Fans...

The Norwegian Red Cross had a genius ad campaign. They leveraged team loyalty with a series of locally-customized ads to drive recruitment of blood donors -- and it worked really well, with an estimated 16,000 lives saved as a result!In the U.S., 3% of the population donates whole blood -- and a smaller fraction of that give platelets or double-reds. This matches the WHO's...

Over the years of designing and printing business cards and calling cards, there is one famous card that is referenced time and time again. This card's celebrity status comes from a three-minute movie scene and is visible for about four seconds, yet it has become one of our most requested cards. The card we're referencing is, of course, Paul Allen's Pierce & Pierce business...

In an unusual event, a Thoroughbred mare gave birth to healthy twin foals. I saw this and just wanted to share it for the cute picture. And for the fact that it, temporarily, sent me down a rabbit hole I haven't revisited for a while: horse colour genetics, since (I'll admit), I was a bit surprised that one foal was chestnut and one was...

How Bad Is Your Streaming Music? Our sophisticated A.I. judges your awful taste in music, brought to you by the good people at The PuddingThis is a satirical project and does not use real artificial intelligence, but a faux pretentious music-loving AI. The code creates a custom blend of jokes from our database paired with the insights found in the artist, album, genre, and...

Trump Admin Unveils New Legal Standard: 'We Have No Proof, Which Actually Proves Our Case'Many deportees lacked any evidence of criminality, but the government argues that really makes them MORE criminals.Joe Patrice: While it is true that many of the TdA members removed under the AEA do not have criminal records in the United States, that is because they have only been in the...

Thousands of breeding flying foxes stopping planes from landing. Next to Rockhampton Airport is a large botanical garden filled with thousands of flying foxes, and when the sun sets these creatures come alive and cause headaches for incoming flights.

What do Kathy Bates, Chris Cooper, Leonardo DiCaprio, Morgan Freeman, Allison Janney, Julianne Moore, Brad Pitt, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, J.K. Simmons, Mira Sorvino, Elizabeth Taylor, Billy Bob Thornton, and Marisa Tomei have in common? (Besides being Academy Award winners.)These used to be their stories. Dann Florek Stephen Hill Jesse L. Martin S. Epatha Merkerson Chris Noth Jerry Orbach Elisabeth Rohm

Meta [the other one] is trying to censor Sarah Wynn-Williams' new book Careless People, a "tell-all" about her time as a senior exec at the company. Her publisher stands behind her and the book is now a best-seller.The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury [Engadget] We Read the Book That Mark Zuckerberg Doesn't Want You to Read. We Can...

Shannon Appelcline (Designers & Dragons, 3/10/2025), "Is the OGL Era Over?": "what are the continuing effects of the attack on the OGL, both on Wizards itself and on the rest of the industry?" "Dreams for Sale" has alternatives. More RPG news in review: Appelcline's "2024: The Year in Roleplaying"; Bloggies 2024 winners; Origins Award nominees; and today, nominees for the 2024 Indie Groundbreaker Awards....

On a sunny July day in 2005, a frog jumped out of a rain gutter to see an unexpected sight: an avalanche of thousands of colorful bouncy balls careening down a San Francisco street. Although San Francisco has been the setting for plenty of cinematic chase scenes, there had never been any quite like this. Filmed as a British commercial for Sony Bravia TV...