http://uniqueensongenre.eklablog.fr/vecus-et-vocabulaire-en-lien-avec-l-identite-agenre-2017-resultats-son-a131180846

http://uniqueensongenre.eklablog.fr/le-langage-dans-la-communaute-non-binaire-2016-resultats-sondage-a128075316

https://www.wired.com/story/in-the-russian-investigation-clues-were-lost-in-translation/

Idiomatic errors in english by russians, and why they aren’t as obvious on the internet.

https://religiousstudies.yale.edu/news/hidden-histories-islamic-magic

http://cpa.hypotheses.org/6523

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180208-an-effortless-way-to-strengthen-your-memory

https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21736561-one-study-suggests-insiders-profited-even-global-financial-crisis-another

Common to all the papers is the recognition that the public markets are, as conspiracy theorists have long argued, not truly public at all. Changing the law to fix that may not even be feasible.

Pre-heat the oven to 400°F and line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners.

• 3/4 cup milk (dairy or unflavoured nut milk of your choice)
• 1/4 cup canola oil
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1/3 cup granulated golden cane sugar
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup wheat bran
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• two large peaches, peeled, pitted and roughly chopped (about 1-1/3–1-1/2 cups)

Source: Peach Bran Muffins ❊ Wholesome Peachy Goodness | Urban Cottage Life

https://www.jumpmath.org/jump/en

http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/quincy-jones-in-conversation.html

http://lithub.com/the-literature-of-ezili-vodou-spirit-force-of-queer-black-womanhood/

https://thewalrus.ca/why-bruce-mcarthurs-murder-trial-could-stigmatize-gay-men/

https://aeon.co/essays/yacob-and-amo-africas-precursors-to-locke-hume-and-kant

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/why-paper-jams-persist/amp

Like unbreachable blister packs or awkward sticky tape, paper jams suggest that imperfection will persist, despite our best efforts. They’re also a quintessential modern problem—a trivial consequence of an otherwise efficient technology that’s been made monumentally annoying by the scale on which that technology has been adopted.

https://www.curbed.com/2017/11/16/16635672/affordable-furniture-ikea-ashley-west-elm

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/libraries-local-news/551594/

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http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/indigenous-languages-touted-as-subject-for-public-schools-1.23163685

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/551570/

Douglas Hofstadter!

https://www.wired.com/story/sex-robot-ethics/amp

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/science/plants-consciousness-anesthesia.html?referer=

This change, occurring between roughly 2000 BCE and 700 CE, has long been celebrated as a huge step forward for humankind—the “axial transformation”—propelling us from the unseemly worship of savage beasts to the refined and dignified adoration of a god who is both perfect and perfectly good.

But it was a tragic demotion for animals. The axial religions determined that some of them were ritually “unclean” and reclassified all of them as the inferiors of humans.

Source: The Animal Cure

The unforgiveable crime of the post-axial religions is to encourage the conflation of authority and benevolence, of hierarchy and justice. When the pious bow down before the powerful or, in our own time, the megachurches celebrate wealth and its owners, the “good” God is just doing his job of what Habermas called “legitimation.”

Source: The Missionary Position

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/31/581932286/how-to-drive-down-smoking-in-groups-that-still-light-up

The data also show that adults with lifelong mental illness smoke far more commonly than the general population.”Remarkably, this is what people who have severe mental illness are most likely to die from: smoking-related illness,” Drope says.

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-muzak-pelly

Spotify and its label-killing schemes