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March of the Juggalos

really good nature documentary, narrated by Morgan Freeman.

‘Craft’ Whiskey Is From a Factory Distillery

The artisan whiskey industry has a big secret—many of the ‘small-batch’ distillers are actually buying their product from a large factory in Indiana.

reminds me of “artisanal” domino’s pizza.

The Gerontovetocracy

Germany’s graying society, it seems, is so cozy and settled that it resists anything threatening to upset the status quo. In the process, it has lost sight of the bigger picture.

increasingly, protest movements are formed by people on death’s door, who have nothing to lose and want to avoid change at any cost.

Procedural Universes

the state of procedural universes:

You’re building a blueprint. So say one of our artists will build something and that will take say a week. But what they get from that is every possible variant of that. So if you build a cat, you also get a lion and a tiger and a panther and things that you’ve never seen—kind of mutations beyond that

Food Bazaar

from mountains of koolaid, to separate sections for cold and warm beer, to vintage products from around the world.

Education takes too long

The person on the left decided against fast track. Is that what tenure looks like? The sparkle is a nice touch too.

Rolling Coal

the rural barefoot have a new hobby.

Growing carbon fiber

it seems indeed silly to create carbon fiber from petroleum if you can do it directly from trees.

we might be growing many strains of poplars. we might modify the molecular weight of the lignin. polymer scientists would work with geneticists and plant breeders to target the right combination of genes.