Links of Interest and other things...

1. I need to stop talking to my mother about the impeachment hearings. (They watch CNN, CNN is sort of the liberal version of FoxNews, in that it excels in hyperbole. This is the problem with a station that is all news, all the time, after a while you have to make up stuff or just editorialize the hell out of it to keep people's interest. They also watch PBS news, which analyzes everything to death.) At any rate, she finds new and creative ways to send my blood pressure through the roof.
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I know, I know, I should look away...but I can't. It's like a horror film -- you know it will give you nightmares, but you watch it anyway...because you have to see what happens next and if the heroes prevail.

Anyhow, because of this -- I really can't watch anti-hero series featuring white men or angry white men. Particularly old angry white men. Succession, Billions, Better Call Saul, El Camino, Deadwood, etc -- are out for the time being. I just can't watch them without wanting to throw things at the television set.

Now, maybe after 2028, or the Doofus is dead -- preferably of a painful disease. (In a sci-fi book I was writing, I had him mutated into a monster by an alleged miracle drug given to him by aliens. The Aliens kill him. I thought it was clever.)

Right now? I watch relationship dramas (with nice people), soap operas, superhero shows, fantasy/science fiction, sitcoms, historicals, and read comic books and romance novels.

2. How Can A Star Be Older Than the Universe

This article broke my brain or is skim proof. So good luck. (I couldn't access the videos, but maybe you can?)

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3. How to Catch a Bomb Maker

This is a story of a little known FBI forensics lab and how it changed the war on terror.

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4. 100 Greatest Singers of All Time According To Rolling Stone Magazine [Note this is a 2008 list, so doesn't include anyone after 2008]

Hmmm. So far I kind of agree? But I only looked through half of them...also, I'd have put Tina Turner before Bob Dylan.
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You can check out the rest for yourselves. This is a highly subjective list.

Been listening to a lot of country and Americana music lately. Today got bored and hit Country Wide -- which is country music globally. Apparently it is not just regulated to the Americas. Good to know.

5. How to get a world class education for Free on the Internet (I would however be careful to check sources.)

6. How Scientists Are Bringing People to a Near State of Death to Heal Them

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7. Online - No One Knows You are Poor

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8. Made in America --
How four dishes with roots in other lands tell a story of immigration and transformation

Impossible to put an excerpt. Combination of video and text.

So an abstract instead:

Gumbo. Chile con queso. California roll. Spaghetti and meatballs.

The names are as familiar as household brands. Yet how much do you know about these dishes? Based on the names alone, with their roots in other languages and other cultures, each dish sounds like an import. In some ways, they are. But each dish also morphed and adapted to its new environment, transforming into something uniquely American.

Some transformed through industrialization. Another required the ingenuity of chefs willing to break from tradition. One adapted, and continues to adapt, to the dizzying constellation of cultures that is New Orleans. Allow us to explain – and to show you.

9. Cold Hard Truths About the Workplace That I Learned the Hard Way

Yep. People are difficult to work with. And unfortunately, never quite make it past a high school mentality.

10. The Outrageous Deeply Sexist History of the Pantsuit

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