Snapzu Life & Personal Interests: April 2017

Sunday, 30 April 2017

Why Former Suffragettes Flocked to British Fascism

The women did make tea for the men, but they also received training in jiujitsu so that they could throw people out of meetings. By Martin Pugh.
Read more: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fascism/2017/04/why_the_british_union_fascist_movement_appealed_to_so_many_women.html?source=Snapzu

Ellen celebrates 20th anniversary of her 'coming out' episode with Oprah

It's a big day for Ellen DeGeneres. Back in the '90s, the comedian and talk show host starred in the sitcom Ellen. Twenty years ago today, 42 million people tuned into the "The Puppy Episode," which showed her character (and herself) coming to terms with her sexuality and, eventually, coming out on air. To celebrate the historic moment, DeGeneres brought a host of familiar faces to The Ellen DeGeneres Show, including Oprah Winfrey.
Read more: http://mashable.com/2017/04/30/ellen-degeneres-coming-out-episode/#lBvlyHIfbaqU?source=Snapzu

Why Do Intelligent, Well-Educated People Still Believe Nonsense?

Last night for the third time in as many months I found myself explaining to someone raised outside of a devoutly religious environment that religious people are not stupid simply because they believe nonsensical things. Each of the three times I’ve had this conversation it’s been with a different person whose professional life has increasingly come to focus on critiquing religion. Each time I’ve encountered the same bewilderment, and each time I’ve covered the same ground in an attempt to explain how and why some people who are very intelligent can...
Read more: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/godlessindixie/2015/10/09/why-do-intelligent-well-educated-people-still-believe-nonsense/?source=Snapzu

Google CEO Sundar Pichai doubled his pay last year to $200 million

Google CEO Sundar Pichai cashed in big during his first full calendar year at the helm of the Internet giant, nearly doubling his total compensation to $200 million in 2016. Pichai received a salary of $650,000 last year, slightly less than the $652,500 he earned in 2015. But the long-time Google employee, who was named CEO during the company's re-organization in August 2015, received a stock award of $198.7 million in 2016, roughly double his 2015 stock award of $99.8 million.
Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/28/google-ceo-sundar-pichais-compensation-doubled-in-2016-to-200-million.html?source=Snapzu

People think juice is good for them. They’re wrong.

Step away from the juice bar.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/04/26/people-think-juice-is-good-for-them-theyre-wrong/?source=Snapzu

Beloved Curve — Using Double Exposures, Sarah Amy Fishlock Reflects on the Cycle of Life

Too often the humankind puts itself at the center of any reflection on the meaning of life, but the truth is our planet—not to speak about the entire universe—has existed since long before we came on to the scene, and will probably outlive us. The beauty of Beloved Curve, a recent conceptual photography series by 31 year-old Scottish photographer Sarah Amy Fishlock, is the simplicity with which it connects the existential theme of the incessant cycle of life to her grieving process for her father's death through the intelligent use of double exposures.
Read more: http://fotoroom.co/beloved-curve-sarah-amy-fishlock/?source=Snapzu

Japan Cherry Blossoms - Drone Lapse Times

A few months ago Jack Johnston was asked to film a series of lapse time shots of the Cherry Blossom trees in Japan for a BBC Springwatch Special. After months of testing and working out the kinks in the process, this is a selection of shots that featured in the final show.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/gladsdotter/japan-cherry-blossoms-drone-lapse-times?source=Snapzu

Israeli teen behind 591 bomb threats to Australian schools: police

An Israeli teenager charged this week with making more than 2,000 hoax bomb threats to schools, Jewish centres, hospitals and airlines in five countries is alleged to have been behind 591 bomb threats against schools in Australia, Victoria police have confirmed. The 18-year-old is alleged to have robo-called schools in Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory in January 2016.
Read more: http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/2091464/israeli-teen-behind-591-bomb-threats-australian-schools-police?source=Snapzu

Kent man with cerebral palsy finishes marathon

Patrick Barden has been walking the route with the help of a frame.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-39753139/man-with-cerebral-palsy-finishes-marathon?source=Snapzu

Beer a better pain relief than paracetamol, study says

Your head is pounding, the room’s spinning and your stomach is lurching – when you’re hungover, reaching for painkillers can often seem like a good idea. But according to a new study, hair of the dog really could do the trick. And not just for dealing with a hangover – according to new research, drinking two beers is more effective at relieving pain than taking painkillers.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/two-pints-beer-paracetamol-painkillers-pain-relief-study-university-greenwich-a7708991.html?source=Snapzu

Scientists Should Just Be Political

Only politicizing halfway doesn’t help anyone. By Robinson Meyer.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/scientists-should-just-be-political/524682/?source=Snapzu

Saturday, 29 April 2017

Victorian Marine Biologist Margaret Gatty’s Stunning Drawings of Seaweed

The tenderness of feathers meets the grandeur of trees in the otherworldly life-forms of the seas, which offered an unexpected entry point for women in science.
Read more: https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/04/27/margaret-gatty-seaweed/?source=Snapzu

Disunion: When the Soldiers Went Home

At the age of 42, Taylor Peirce was ancient by Army standards. Nearly three years of campaigning and picket duty, from the rifle pits of Mississippi to Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, had exacted great physical costs.
Read more: https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/when-the-soldiers-went-home/?source=Snapzu

Eleanore Roosevelt: “Can a Woman Ever Be President of the United States?”

In the fall of 1932, when Eleanor Roosevelt was teaching American history at a high school for girls, editing a magazine called "Babies—Just Babies," and helping her husband in the last weeks of his run for president of the United States by making a gazillion campaign stops—a speech here, a photograph there—the Associated Press assigned a political reporter named Lorena Hickok to follow her around. Jill Lepore on one of the greatest first ladies of all time.
Read more: http://lithub.com/eleanore-roosevelt-can-a-woman-ever-be-president-of-the-united-states/?source=Snapzu

Disunion: Humanity and Hope in a Southern Prison

For more than the obvious reasons, Civil War soldiers in both armies despised military prisons....Andersonville, the infamous Georgia prison, was the ultimate abattoir; during the summer of 1864 nearly one in three Union inmates died.
Read more: https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/humanity-and-hope-in-a-southern-prison/?source=Snapzu

Inside the Insane Feud Between a Vegan Strip Club and the Steak House Next Door

In Portland, Oregon, a vegan strip club [Casa Diablo] and the steak house-slash-strip club next door [The Acropolis] are locked in an intense rivalry. By Natalie O’Neill.
Read more: https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/inside-the-insane-feud-between-a-vegan-strip-club-and-the-steak-house-next-door?source=Snapzu

‘The Planes Have Destroyed Us’

America says its airstrikes are helping liberate Iraqis from the Islamic State. Residents of Mosul give a very different account. By Sam Kimball.
Read more: http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/04/27/the-planes-have-destroyed-us/?source=Snapzu

Sheryl Sandberg's Advice for Grieving

The Facebook COO opens up about what she’s learned since the sudden death of her husband in 2015.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/sandberg-optionb/524640/?source=Snapzu

Disunion: The Sinking of the Sultana

As John Wilkes Booth stepped into President Lincoln’s booth at Ford’s Theater...Union prisoners of war were heading home.... 2,100 of those soldiers, many sick, many barefoot, boarded the wooden side-wheeler steamboat Sultana....
Read more: https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/the-sinking-of-the-sultana/?source=Snapzu

Disunion: The Man Who Carried Lincoln’s Torch

It seemed all of Washington had gone to the theater on April 14, 1865 – Good Friday – to hail the imminent end of the war.
Read more: https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/the-man-who-carried-lincolns-torch/?source=Snapzu

Disunion: How Lincoln Became Our Favorite President

Today Americans almost universally regard Abraham Lincoln as our greatest president. And yet he was not always the revered figure that he has become.
Read more: https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/how-lincoln-became-our-favorite-president/?source=Snapzu

‘Assassins!’: A Confederate spy was accused of helping kill Abraham Lincoln. Then he vanished.

On Feb. 19, 1867, the American gunboat Swatara returned to the Washington Navy Yard after a months-long trip to the Middle East. Out stepped a young man in a bizarre, filthy uniform and shackles. His name was John Harrison Surratt, and he was the most wanted man in the entire world.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/04/13/assassins-a-confederate-spy-was-accused-of-helping-kill-abraham-lincoln-then-he-vanished/?source=Snapzu

In the age of Trump, can Mr. Rogers help us manage our anger?

The PBS host once asked, “What do you do with the mad that you feel?” The question is as relevant as ever. By David Dark.
Read more: http://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/04/19/age-trump-can-mr-rogers-help-us-manage-our-anger?source=Snapzu

‘Mad Anne’ Bailey was a frontier warrior and Revolutionary War hero who got wilder with age

This was one settler who wouldn’t settle down
Read more: https://timeline.com/mad-anne-bailey-a9b119223790?source=Snapzu

As colleges ditch books, the future of the campus library is changing

As major universities like UC Berkeley abandon traditional book collections, the role of campus libraries is starting to look a little different from the good old days of an offline era.
Read more: http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2017/0425/As-colleges-ditch-books-the-future-of-the-campus-library-is-changing?source=Snapzu

A reflective palace of rainbows by Kimsooja

Created in 2006 by multidisciplinary artist Kimsooja, he transformed the Palacio de Cristal into a multisensory sound and light experience. Outside light filters through the glass of the pavilion and reflects off the diffraction film. It diffuses into rainbow spectrums, transforming the external panorama seen from within the palace. The resulting effect is that the entire structure as well as the rays of colour reflecting off the mirrored floor.
Read more: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/01/a-reflective-palace-of-rainbows-by-kimsooja/?source=Snapzu

Dutch architects outfit a building in emoji.

The emotive faces from our keyboards are now literally plastered across a building in the city of Amersfoort in central Netherlands. The 22 circles relay 22 different expressions, from a smiling face to a grimacing face to a cool face with sunglasses.
Read more: https://hyperallergic.com/374798/stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye-dutch-architects-outfit-building-in-emoji-smile/?source=Snapzu

A short lesson on Asian green tea

When it comes to green teas, your choices are not limited to one - there's Japanese and there's Chinese. What’s the difference between Chinese and Japanese green tea? A brief look at the key distinguishing features of green tea from these two countries.
Read more: https://www.teabox.com/blog/short-lesson-asian-green-tea?source=Snapzu

10 Interesting Facts About Chocolate - MyHealthyDessert

Here are 10 interesting facts about chocolate and cocoa powder.
Read more: http://www.myhealthydessert.com/food-information/interesting-facts/10-interesting-facts-chocolate/?source=Snapzu

Friday, 28 April 2017

Apple fanboys cited as Merriam-Webster herds ‘sheeple’ into dictionary

“Wake up!” the good folks a Merriam-Webster just tweeted. “Sheeple is in the dictionary now.” And while the induction of such casual slang is sure to offend some, none will likely take great umbrage than Apple zealots, whose zealotry is cited by the dictionary as an example of the proper use of the word. First the definition from Merriam-Webster’s website: “people who are docile, compliant, or easily influenced: people likened to sheep.” And the second of two examples...
Read more: http://www.networkworld.com/article/3192857/mobile-wireless/apple-fanboys-cited-as-merriam-webster-herds-sheeple-into-dictionary.html?source=Snapzu

Sisters of the Valley

Photography by Shaughn & John
Read more: http://snapzu.com/Maternitus/sisters-of-the-valley?source=Snapzu

The Rise of the Global Novelist

How to read fiction from around the world in an age of xenophobic populism.
Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/141676/rise-global-novelist-adam-kirsch-review?source=Snapzu

The Scientists Fighting to Save Us From a World Without Coffee

Climate change is threatening your morning caffeine fix.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-28/the-scientists-fighting-to-save-us-from-a-world-without-coffee?source=Snapzu

How to Survive a Visit From Your Mother

Look at you being a thoughtful host and not a teenage girl who erupts at the first sign of criticism!
Read more: http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/05/how-to-survive-a-visit-from-your-mother.html?src=longreads?source=Snapzu

Why does sugar in cornbread divide races in the South?

So many Southern food traditions are shared by both races. Most Southerners, black and white, revere fried chicken, pursue pork barbecue and exult their grandmothers’ garden vegetables. Why is there such a fundamental difference in cornbread? By Kathleen Purvis. (Mar. 29, 2016)
Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/living/food-drink/article68774832.html?source=Snapzu

Why should you read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"?

"War and Peace." A tome. A slog. The sort of book you shouldn’t read in bed because if you fall asleep it could give you a concussion. Right? Only partly. "War and Peace" is a long book, sure, but it’s also a thrilling examination of history populated with some of the deepest, most realistic characters you’ll find anywhere. Brendan Pelsue shares everything you need to know to read this classic book.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/gladsdotter/why-should-you-read-tolstoys-war-and-peace?source=Snapzu

An extreme method for breaking your bad habits

What to do when incremental change just won’t cut it. By Mikael Cho.
Read more: https://medium.com/swlh/an-extreme-method-for-breaking-your-bad-habits-8d269b5302da#.s9y12s8ng?source=Snapzu

Rime without reason: Did Coleridge foretell his own future in a poem?

Glimpsed through the lens of Guite’s biography, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” constitutes the “involucrum” of Coleridge’s existential chrysalis. By Kelly Grovier.
Read more: http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/rime-without-reason-coleridge/?source=Snapzu

How eBooks lost their shine: 'Kindles now look clunky and unhip'

Just a few years ago, the Kindle was being blamed for the death of the traditional book. But the latest figures show a dramatic reversal of fortunes, with sales of ebooks plunging. So what’s behind this resurgence?
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/27/how-ebooks-lost-their-shine-kindles-look-clunky-unhip-?source=Snapzu

4 Ways IBM’s Chef Watson is Helping in the Kitchen

IBM's Watson computer wants to help create new recipes.
Read more: https://fityourself.club/4-ways-ibms-chef-watson-wants-to-help-you-find-the-perfect-recipe-3cac46df10c8?source=Snapzu

Hiker rescued after 47 days in Nepal survived on salt, water

After spending 47 days stranded on a mountain in Nepal, surviving on salt and water, a Taiwanese man was rescued Wednesday but his girlfriend had died three days earlier.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/hiker-rescued-47-days-stranded-nepal-survived-salt/story?id=47054982?source=Snapzu

Thursday, 27 April 2017

Fecal Transplants At Southeastern Guide Dogs In Palmetto

More black women are learning to use guns: 'this is a movement, and it starts now'

African American women organizing shooting classes are finding a surge of interest – and many say it comes down to feeling less safe in the era of Trump
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/27/black-women-guns-classes-racism-trump?source=Snapzu

3 New Bridges Rise in New York, With Looks That Could Stop Traffic

The home of past-century wonders like the Brooklyn Bridge returns to building cable-stayed bridges, which are designed to “stand the test of time.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/nyregion/3-new-bridges-rise-in-new-york-with-looks-that-could-stop-traffic.html?source=Snapzu

Starting school 15 minutes later offer significant benefits for kids, says study

It sounds like a child’s dream come true: starting school later may be more beneficial for kids than forcing them to embrace the early morning grind. According to a study published in the journal Sleep Medicine, delaying school start time by just 15 minutes could do wonders for adolescent mental health—and it all has to do with preventing sleep deprivation.
Read more: https://saludmovil.com/starting-school-later-15-minutes-health-benefits-teens-study/?source=Snapzu

Jonathan Demme, Oscar-Winning Director of ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ Dies At 73 — Exclusive

Jonathan Demme, the filmmaker whose career ranged from the David Byrne documentary “Stop Making Sense” to the Oscar-winning “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Philadelphia,” died this morning in New York. He was 73. The cause was esophageal cancer and complications from heart disease, according to a source close to the family. He was originally treated for the disease in 2010, but suffered from a recurrence in 2015, and his condition deteriorated in recent weeks.
Read more: http://www.indiewire.com/2017/04/jonathan-demme-dead-73-silence-of-the-lambs-1201809289/?source=Snapzu

The Books That Made Your Favorite Writers Want to Write

It’s a question that’s asked by interviewers all the time: how did you become a writer? It’s kind of a lob, and for many authors, the answer is obvious. Reading made them into writers. But while many authors cite a lifetime love of the written word, or a storytelling acumen developed in the womb, or a childhood spent loosed in libraries, some can point to a specific book and say: that one.
Read more: http://lithub.com/the-books-that-made-your-favorite-writers-want-to-write/?source=Snapzu