She was literally the biggest story on the planet in 1952. Her story knocked the story of testing nuclear weapons in the Pacific off the front page. It blew Queen Elizabeth's coronation off the front page. A former GI, who knew from childhood that she was in the wrong body, went to Copenhagen and became Christine, who she really was all along. [more inside] posted by dancestoblue at 10:05 PM PST - 14 comments
UN General Assembly overwhelmingly calls for end of Israeli occupation The UNGA demanded that ¡°Israel brings to an end without delay its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which constitutes a wrongful act of a continuing character entailing its international responsibility, and do so no later than 12 months¡±. || previously[more inside] posted by cendawanita at 7:31 PM PST - 21 comments
An esoteric branch of math called fraction theory may hold the answers to science¡¯s deepest mysteries. You may think you know what numbers are. Chances are, you learned to count before you entered kindergarten, and number-names like ¡°one¡±, ¡°two¡±, and ¡°three¡± were among the first words you learned... posted by Wolfdog at 5:23 PM PST - 23 comments
Schoolgirl's dinosaur footprint find on Vale of Glamorgan beach (on the south Wales coast.) Experts think 10-year-old Tegan uncovered prints of a huge herbivore from the late triassic period. posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries at 4:52 PM PST - 2 comments
Everyone who joins the US military, seeks a security clearance, or applies for some government jobs must, as part of the background check process, fill out Standard Form 86. Questions on this form require applicants to disclose if they're members of organizations that seek to overthrow the US government or deprive people of their civil rights. Lying on this form is a felony, a serious crime that can result in months in prison, but indictments involving lying on this form are quite rare. Molly Conger, host of the Cool Zone Media podcast Weird Little Guys, looks into why this is, and the history of its use, in the episode titled Liar, Liar (57 minutes). posted by JHarris at 3:58 PM PST - 32 comments
Combs (P Diddy) was denied bail and will remain in custody as he faces charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking, [more inside] posted by Sebmojo at 1:56 PM PST - 19 comments
The Office, fittingly, is never going to let us go. We¡¯re clearly always going to be tethered to a sitcom desk. And not just because we can¡¯t stop watching old reruns. The franchise that started in the UK before making waves across the Atlantic is still going strong. An upcoming spinoff will return the show to U.S. airwaves (likely) in 2025. But before it does, we¡¯ll have another way to get our fix of workplace comedy with a very different kind of boss. Well, not that different. Because while the new trailer from Prime Video¡¯s Australia remake of The Office features the franchise¡¯s first-ever woman boss, she reminds us a whole lot of David Brent and Michael Scott. from Australian Remake¡¯s Trailer Gets Back to Work with Franchise¡¯s First Female Boss [Nerdist] [more inside] posted by chavenet at 12:27 PM PST - 13 comments
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Tina Smith (D-MN): Our Solution to the Housing Crisis (NYT gift, archive.is) posted by box at 8:16 AM PST - 105 comments
Because people don't want to feel bad after watching a movie, here's some other alternate endings for you (slPolygon) [more inside] posted by Kitteh at 7:34 AM PST - 92 comments
A new Zelda game is reminding everyone to finish the last one [Polygon] There is so much any given player can do in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. You can become the architect of the world¡¯s largest bridge, engineer crimes against Koroks, or, if you want, you can just turn the sloping hills of Hyrule into Link¡¯s personal skate park. It¡¯s a giant game with plenty to do, so I¡¯d forgive any player who, I don¡¯t know, just so happened to not have completed the game yet. But now, with the impending release of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, anyone still playing Nintendo¡¯s last Zelda title might be rushing to beat the game before the next mainline Zelda game comes out. Bonus link: Zelda is going full horse girl in her next game. posted by Fizz at 6:19 AM PST - 50 comments
Moral outrage at the big lie, but also plenty about why many Haitians are there, the transition costs, and their good effects on Springfield. I thought there was a government program to move Haitians to Springfield. No. There was a government program to move businesses to Springfield, followed by figuring out that there was a shortage of people of working age, and Haitians moved into the vacuum to everyone's advantage. [more inside] posted by Nancy Lebovitz at 4:43 AM PST - 36 comments
Recognizing that "academic subjects are not eternal categories" and that words and concepts at once carry specialized meaning and more expansive valence, Williams explains that his Keywords is intended neither as dictionary nor glossary, but rather as "the record of an inquiry into a vocabulary: a shared body of words and meanings in our most general discussions, in English, of the practices and institutions which we group as culture and society." Reading such keywords not only helps us trace changing usages across time, it also challenges the very idea of a stable or "sacral" meaning, inviting improper, promiscuous, and audacious resonances and connections. from Keywords for Postcolonial Thought [P45] [more inside] posted by chavenet at 1:24 AM PST - 4 comments
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