Simple Life

[nprmusic]

First Listen: Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, It’s A Holiday Soul Party

The soul singer’s new collection of holiday songs may be destined to become a revisited classic.

[birdandmoon]

This week’s Wild City comic is about city turkeys.

[nambroth]

Special shoutout to my neighbor, Mr. Fred Evans, who pioneered the efforts to restore wild turkey populations. Especially in the NorthEastern USA, though his methods and research were used all over North America. http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Fred-Evans/29404936

http://www.oleantimesherald.com/outdoors/article_aba1045a-ffc3-11e4-98a6-cf773cebfc4d.html

[sfmoma]

SubmissionFriday 

“Postage and Miss Handling” by Trevor Drummond

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[newshour]

A long run feels the worst until it feels the best. That’s primarily thanks to the runner’s high.

What’s going on in your brain during that euphoric moment? Scientists have found that it’s directly connected to a fat hormone. So, your hunger to run is tied to your literal hunger.

Learn more.

[emberkyrlee]

OMG there’s a follow-up story to THIS ONE

GLORIOUS

[strangebiology]

Oh my god, I WORK at Mount Diablo…

[texashipsterproblems]

For Jesse

[wired]

This photographer charges into California wildfires, taking stunning long-exposure shots of the blaze.

MORE: The Hellish Beauty of California’s Wildfires

[gettyimagesnews]

More images from drought-stricken California of Firefighters battling wildfires

Top: A firefighter shoots a flare into dry brush during a burn operation to head off the Rocky Fire on August 2, 2015 near Clearlake, California.

Bottom: Cal Fire firefighters watch a large plume of smoke as it rises from the Rocky Fire on August 1, 2015 near Clearlake, California.

Photos: Justin Sullivan

[biodiversityisus]

Take a look at this great TED talk that explains why biodiversity is so important.

[pbs-food]

Where did ice cream come from? Did you know it has biblical origins?

Learn more about the History of Ice Cream from PBS Food

[ryanlsumner]

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…never forget.

[nubbsgalore]

coloured scanning electron microscopy by steve gschmeissner (and sixth photo by nicole ottawa). an electron microscope uses a particle beam of electrons, which have much shorter wavelenghts than photons (visible light) and produce a greatly magnified image of the illuminated specimen (up to 10 million times).

dyk: the tardigrade, or water bear, seen in the last photo, can survive in temperatures of one degree kelvin and tolerate pressures six times that of the deepest oceans. despite preferring simple ground dirt, these creatures (which aren’t technically extremophiles) were shown in one experiment to have survived ten days in the vacuum of space. they can also endure heavy doses of radiation and hibernate for a decade. 

dy-also-k: the maggots of the bluebottle fly (the goofy looking dude in the first photo), are used medicinally to clean wounds. once sterilized, they are placed in a wound where they feed on dead tissue and leave healthy tissue untouched. their saliva contains anti bacterial chemicals which maintain sterility in the area.  

click pic for a description of other photos. see also: previous microscopy posts

[wnycradiolab]

OK, I’m just gonna say what I’m thinking here: TINY CONFUSED WALRUS.

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[atlasobscura]

Dublin Bottling Works - Dublin, Texas 

In operation since 1891, the Dublin Bottling Factory only recently took its name after refusing to bow to Dr. Pepper’s insistence on the use of high fructose corn syrup.

Formerly known as the Dublin Dr. Pepper Bottling Company, the factory was the first facility to bottle Dr. Pepper soda after its 1885 invention. For over one hundred years, the bottling plant produced relatively small batches using the drink’s original recipe involving real cane sugar. Even when the demand for the drink increased and mass-manufacturing became a necessity, the Dublin facility continued to create only small batches of glass-bottled, original recipe soda. When the use of cheaper corn syrup ingredients began being used to manufacture the drink, the operator of the historic plant, Bill “Mr. Dr. Pepper” Kloster refused to change their ways, citing the folksy philosophy that one ought to keep “dancin’ with who brung ya.”  The sugary throwback produced by the plant came to be known unofficially as, “Dublin Dr. Pepper.”      

This rogue sugaring continued until 2012, until a battle with the Dr. Pepper Snapple company which could no longer brook their unwillingness to toe the line, caused the plant to lose all rights to bottle Dr. Pepper products and use the Dr. Pepper name. Kloster had developed a museum of Dr. Pepper memorabilia and signage at the factory which was also tragically disbanded thanks to the lawsuit.   

Keep reading about the Dublin Bottling Works, on Atlas Obscura!

[anothercleverjedimindtrick]

For The Full List: The ‘If I Fought This Rapper, Would I Win?’ Chart

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Lmfaaaaaaaoooooo

[solarsquared]

I am hollering rn

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pitbull and busta

[rapindustryfanfiction]

Rap Industry Fan Fiction endorses this thinkpiece.

[jedavu]

Gorgeous Illustrations Of ‘Untranslatable’ Words From Different Languages by Based in New Zealand, media designer Anjana Iyer 

[theatlantic]

Our Moods, Our Foods

Eating a meal, any meal, reliably makes an animal, any animal, calmer and more lethargic. This means humans, too. Hunger makes animals alert and irritable, which explains why couples always fight about where to eat dinner. This emotional response encourages the animals to find food.

But all this is only in the broadest, most primal “eating = good, not eating = bad” way. The details of the relationship between foods and moods end up being a little contradictory and a lot complicated.

What we tend to think of as “emotional eating” is a specific kind of eating and a specific kind of emotion—eating sugary, fatty, carb-y, unhealthy foods as a coping mechanism for feeling upset.  In reality, “emotional eating” is a much broader term.

“We eat for a variety of different emotions and we eat in a variety of different circumstances which are in turn connected with emotions,” Meryl Gardner, a marketing professor at the University of Delaware, says.

Read more. [Image: stevendepolo/Martin Cathrae/seriousbri/flickr]

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[ilovecharts]

The Dinosaur Pet Guide 

by johnconway, via bradct

[texashipsterproblems]

I want it