Senator Mazie Hirono uses this word in an interview with Steve Inskeep [https://goo.gl/9kHpxD] and says it's a Japanese word used in Hawaii to mean BS. Wikipedia [https://goo.gl/GydGgY] defines it more widely as "a popular term commonly used in the state of…
I definitely don't want to lose track of this. For years I've been telling anyone who cared to listen (or was forced to) that Middlemarch is the greatest novel of all time. Now, Open Culture [https://goo.gl/NFdTMs] lets me know that it's…
An incredible and a touching story of friends who began reading to each other 35 years ago and have kept it up. I wish I had thought or been invited to do the same, especially for poetry. This story has it all—thoughts on friendship, listening (and being listened to)…
Baseball continues to tinker with its rules in a quest to shorten games and capture eyeballs. (The conversation at CBC Sunday also mentions that many parks continue to install attractions and conveniences that themselves distract from the game people have come to see.) I come from another time—bring a…
Well, you don't expect me to just leave a comment on an earlier post [https://mikeschultz.ghost.io/thought-isolater/]. > This Isolation Helmet Is Meant To Help Office Workers Be More Productive https://t.co/xXk6kakPok pic.twitter.com/GbyEQRT6Jk [https://t.co/GbyEQRT6Jk] — PSFK (@PSFK) July 13,…
> Bread would be placed on the corpse and eaten by the local "sin eater" to absorb the sins of the departed’s soul https://t.co/Wvju3WAgiJ — Atlas Obscura (@atlasobscura) July 14, 2017 [https://twitter.com/atlasobscura/status/885905225810366464]…
http://bookmania.me/post/162948292138/the-rights-of-the-reader…
> Motorized bread for the masses--and walkers. Prepping to set out again on the @outofedenwalk [https://twitter.com/outofedenwalk]. #Kyrgyzstan [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kyrgyzstan?src=hash] #edenwalk [https://twitter.com/hashtag/edenwalk?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/rgsVz2v7eP [https://t.co/rgsVz2v7eP] — Paul Salopek (@PaulSalopek) July 10, 2017 [https:…