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Hello Tae Bo Aficionados,
Got a slightly different format this week because I wanted to switch it up. Instead of three main articles we have three main sections all designed around a theme. Not as much in depth analysis on specific pieces, but more readings on curated topics that then have some widely applicable lessons. Probably won’t stick with this format, but had a bunch of articles that all fit together, so I’ll do it from time to time when the cards fall into place.
I’ve started stretching every day, so that is cool. Age what a beautiful, and horrifying, flower you are. Be still my aching back.
Ok time for the usual linkies. Enjoy.
Everyone Should Eat Food In Their Lives
Will We Ever Get A Clear Idea About What We Should Eat?
A scholarly look at how we are swayed by varying degrees of food data and research, from the times of finding out scurvy is cured by vitamin C to studies that (wrongly) showed women should eat ice cream to help them get pregnant.Food Brands Fight The Background Check
In the past, and currently still, many brands used super cheap prison labor but then won't hire those same people once they are out because they are "criminals". Now, many new brands are getting on board with open hiring and forgoing background checks. A step in the right direction of ending our current prison industrial complex.The Great Texas Corny Dog Feud
A family torn apart by something that can, frankly (heh), tear any family apart - corndogs. The classic feud of a business running well and then one family member getting greedy and mucking the whole thing up resulting in rival factions.
We Got An Ocean Section Today Baby!
Urchin Slayers Are Trying to Save The Underwater Rainforest
Red urchins are what is used for the delicacy known as uni. Purple urchins aren't used for shit and they are outcompeting red urchins along the California coast as well as eating up all the kelp, creating essentially an underwater desert: because without the kelp, the rest of ecosystem can't flourish. Now we got vigilante and large scale urchin killers on the loose trying to save the ocean ecosystem but they of course have to deal with all the bureaucracy that comes along with trying to do anything around here, so it may be too late since it has taken a few years to get the approval to go all dark knight upon the urchins. Think of the adorable otters! (Totally unrelated but freaky, as soon as I typed "otters" into my google sheet I went back to the article to finish reading it and had an ad for "otterbox" phone cases. Wtf.)The Secrets Of The World’s Greatest Freediver
Freediving is, basically, the art/sport/practice of taking one deep breath and trying to go as far down in the ocean as you can. It's that simple. The biggest catch is that you need to, preferably, not die while doing it, and that is where the challenge lies. This is a beautifully written and photographed profile on the top boy in the sport at the moment, Alexey Molchanov.Scientists Are Still Landing New Discoveries At Fish Markets
As it turns out, one of the primary methods of discovering new fish species is by shopping at local fish markets across the world. In many places they sell whatever is caught, so that weird new species of shark no one has ever seen before still goes on sale because people gotta eat and then scientists stroll on by and think “hmm ain’t seen that in my textbook” and boom you got a new species known to science (but not to locals).
Mass Extinctions Are All The Rage
Firm Raises $15m To Bring Back Woolly Mammoth From Extinction
We bout to get mammoths, y'all! Maybe. Who knows if this can actually happen. The reasons given by this firm for wanting to do this (make cold resistant elephants to combat the dwindling numbers and to help restore the Arctic grasslands to help with global warming) both sound kinda flimsy when it is clear the scientists behind this just want to do some cool shit. Which is totally ok!How Jurassic Park Led To (And Then Ruined) Spielberg's Chance To Have A Dinosaur Named After Him
Anyone watched Jurassic Park recently? It really holds up. Spielberg has actually done a lot of good for the paleontological community and gotten a lot of funding for it and almost had a newly discovered raptor named after him, but then didn't because of legal issues. Fun fact from this piece: velociraptors are actually way smaller than they are portrayed in the film (the article goes into the reasons they were called that in the film as well).How To End The American Obsession With Driving
I know this one is a bit of a stretch, but one can only find so many prehistoric-related articles without it getting weird. A laundry list of ideas to stave off one extinction (our own) with another one (our extreme reliance on the car). Walking is fun! Biking is fun! Taking the subway is fun! Usually, actually not ever, but sometimes it is not entirely terrible, you know, when the car doesn’t smell like poo and such.
Weird Internet Resource Of The Week
I’ve been telling people to use Seated forever now and no one listens. The elevator pitch is that it is Open Table but with rewards. You can make reservations (or walk in a lot of the time) at restaurants and you get back a percentage of your bill. Book restaurant. Eat at restaurant. Take photo of receipt. Get sent cash in the app that can be used to redeem gift cards at brands (Uber, Nike, Amazon, Starbucks, etc.) Don’t think it can be used to pay off medical debt quite yet though, unfortunately. And I’m not just talking about like 3% of your meal, sometimes that shit is like 30%. So if you go to a group meal you can end up with hundreds back sometimes. I also use it because if you need somewhere to go, but are terrible at picking places (like me), you can just look at what is near you on the map and make an assessment there. Genius hack if you take clients out to eat and can expense the meal. And they also have really good restaurants, not just lame places which I thought would initially be the case since the premise seemed to good to be true. It is criminally underutilized in my opinion. They also have a referral promo going on to all their users – not sponsored at all – and if y’all sign up I get $30 and you also get $30. Use eli9 when you download it.
Other Interesting Things You May Or May Not Care About
The Lyme Vaccine That Got Away
This is a podcast form The New Republic that they've also put in text form, so pick your poison, all about a Lyme Disease vax that was on the market twenty years ago and then voluntarily was pulled by the manufacturer. Fascinating read about the politics and protocols behind vaccine implementation and marketing. And actually enjoyable to read because it might be the first vaccine thing you've read in the past year and a half that isn't all about Covid!Swamp Thing Is Great Climate Fiction
I'm not into comics at all but I really enjoyed this piece in Gawker about how the swamp thing comic explains us as humans and our relation to the environment. Great writing.How To Say “No” After Saying “Yes”
I've done it. You've done it. We've all done it. Said yes and then thought "fuuuuuuuuck, why did I say yes?" But there is still hope my friend! There are ways to gracefully bow out. Just heed this expert advice.Does The Beauty Industry Need A Czar?
Another industry with huge waste, and with the US now having a “fashion czar” to curb textile waste, some industry insiders weigh in on what can be done in the industry designed to make us hotter (looks-wise) to ensure that we are not hotter (temperature-wise) far into the future.How Having Synesthesia Helps This Perfumer Create Unique Scents
My dude out here smelling things and seeing colors. And he’s not even on drugs!
Let’s Just Looks At Art Because Reading Sucks
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