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Barbican Estate located in London, constructed between the 1960s to the 70s by architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon.

i like your platonic friendship do you mind if i view it through a lens that might support a homosexual reading of your relationship? you don't need to change anything and this doesn't belittle or undermine or ignore your real feelings for each other. i just think it would be cool if you fucked

#this is kind of how i look at hololive these days #though they now lean into it pretty hard the last 2-3 years haha

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rederiswrites

There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.

alexseanchai

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?

rederiswrites

I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!

pandorasquillandquotes

Gonna throw Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert in the ring here! You'll never see the modern world the same way again.

vaspider

A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.

Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...

foxofninetales

I'll throw in a rec for Pickled, Potted, and Canned by Sue Shephard - a very interesting look at food preservation and how the availability of different types of food preservation shaped cultures and cuisines.

electronsprotonscroutons

Sweetness and Power is this but for the topic of sugar

magneticdeclination

The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past might also be up your alley. It's about "forgotten" foods and staples. They talk about different types of wheat, sauces, veggies, etc and a little about the cultures from whence they come

doctornerdington

Also: Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser. One of my favourite books.

bitchwhoyoukiddin

DO I HAVE A SERIES FOR YOU. University of California Press has a gift for you and it is a 80+ book series on food studies. There are even some that are open access (legally free), but the rest are in libraries.

I also highly recommend Frostbite by Nicola Twilley. It’s about the impact refrigeration has had/is having on food preservation and culture, globally. It was one of my favorite books of this last year.

calystarose

Also, The Rice Theory of Culture https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=orpc By Thomas Talhelm

ariaste

Can't believe no one's mentioned Consider the Fork yet, which is about how environment/resources shape our ways of eating, which shapes both our culture and our concepts of politeness. So interesting, really recommend!

great-art-and-a-purple-tongue

Seven Flowers and How They Shaped Our World by Jennifer Potter

It isn't so much about edible plants as it is about decorative ones, but I think it fits the theme of this growing list enough for me to add it.

cherryjams

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

bladespark

My mother used to make computer cores as a "work from home" side business. As a child I got spending money via un-winding the ones that failed testing so that the magnetic center could be re-used. I got between $0.05 and $0.25 per core depending. Mom got more for the finished ones, of course, though I don't know how much. Her sister was an expert, and did the more complicated kind, some of which ended up in satellites and/or were used by NASA!

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.

subspaceskater

day out

messygoku

for all of you:

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#cecilia immergreen #gigi murin #ccgg #the autofister network

slopforhogs

Collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu/Pecari tajacu) with leucism amongst a squadron of typical peccaries

Captured by Ramiro Gonzalez, CC BY-NC 4.0

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gallusrostromegalus

@elodieunderglass for the Leucism channel?

atomiccollectionanchorme

Macross

Art by Masami Watanabe, 1982

rederiswrites

I think that media literacy step one for any video is "why is a camera pointed at this?" If there's no obvious reason for a camera to be pointing that way all the time, someone filmed the video on purpose. We aren't a fly on the wall, we're a deliberate audience.