Following up on Tuesday’s post, which included some tasty cicada recipes for the whole family, the U.S. Food & Drug + more
Following up on Tuesday’s post, which included some tasty cicada recipes for the whole family, the U.S. Food & Drug + more
An interactive timeline of the history of ice, courtesy of the International Packaged Ice Association? Don’t mind if I do. + more
Does an orchestra conductor matter? Consider the New York Philharmonic. After Bernstein left in 1973, writes Norman Lebrecht, “Pierre Boulez + more
From today’s edition of the Spokesman-Review: You’ll catch Drew Marquis on Saturday mornings at the Hood River farmers market patiently + more
I’m…I’m just gonna reproduce this paragraph in its entirety: When Einstein died, in 1955, his brain was removed during an + more
“I don’t think we can separate the art from the artist,” writes the inimitable Nick Cave, “nor should we need + more
“Something is terribly wrong with architecture,” writes Nathan J. Robinson in Current Affairs. “Nearly everything being built is boring, joyless, + more
If you would have told me that today I would sit, mesmerized, for more than six and a half minutes + more
“Reading a book requires, by today’s dismal standards, an enormous investment of time and attention,” writes Austin Kleon, “and the + more
Ben Dreyfuss just launched a newsletter called Good Faith, “where every Monday and Friday you can read new posts about + more
Remember Prince’s guitar solo during the performance of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” at the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall + more
Behold! The unlikely story of Taylor California Cellars, “Coca-Cola’s forgotten foray into the wine industry.” I was just a kid + more
This, from a Twitter user named Jared, apparently took the social media platform by storm a year ago—but because I’m + more
From the Royal Collection Trust: “From an early age, [Maria Sibylla Merian] was fascinated by insects and their life cycles, + more
Over at Wired, Andy Greenberg explains “how one couple built a device to fix McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how + more