War and Prosthetics: How Veterans Fought for the Perfect Artificial Limb https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/war-and-prosthetics/

A map of every city in America that Willie Nelson ever sang about https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/here-is-a-map-of-every-city-in-america-that-willie-nelson-ever-sang-about/

Almost everything you think you know about Aladdin is wrong. https://longreads.com/2019/11/25/aladdin-disney-storytelling-history/

Genetic genealogists are working on some of America’s toughest cold cases. While law enforcement DNA databases traditionally look at just 13-20 markers in the genome, these amateurs use 23andMe and Ancestry, which DNA test for 600,000 to 700,000 markers. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/11/when-internet-sleuths-solved-murder-mystery/601636/

Soup Map: 277 European Soups https://www.tasteatlas.com/europe/soups

In which I give a rare 1-star review on Amazon... for a food vacuum sealer https://amzn.to/2DvfGp4

Thanksgiving note: We did not starve.

Olga Gonzalez-Angulo created an appliqué masterpiece based on one of Antoni Gaudi's amazing architectural designs #quilting
https://thequiltshow.com/daily-blog/142-newsletter/28689-applique-masterpiece-of-gaudi-design-gaudi-in-barcelona-by-olga-gonzalez-angulo/

Thanksgiving 2019
The menu

Appetizers
Smoked shrimp cocktail with chipotle orange sauce
Grilled mushrooms with roasted garlic dip

Salad plate
Pickled beets
Spiralized cucumbers
Stilton cheese bombs

Entrée
Sous vide duck breasts with fig and port sauce
Green bean casserole with crispy shallots and mushrooms
Candied Bacon sweet potatoes
Cranberry chutney
Carrots with hazelnuts and Marsala

Dessert
Pumpkin cheesecake

Called the turducken of desserts, this cake involves cooking a pumpkin pie inside of a chocolate cake, an apple pie inside of a vanilla cake, then stacking the two with a layer of buttercream frosting between.

nope nope nope

https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/pumpple-cake

ETH researchers used a 3D printing process to produce complex and highly porous glass objects. The basis for this is a special resin that can be cured with UV light. https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2019/11/glass-from-a-3d-printer.html

"A rocket startup called Launcher has made the largest liquid-fuel combustion chamber ever 3D printed in a single piece, requiring a custom-made 3D printing setup." https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a29833666/3d-print-rocket-engine-combustion-chamber/

"English has no standard second-person plural word, and it’s time for that to change." https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/03/the-case-for-yall/473277/

13 Literary Writers Who Adapted Other People’s Books for the Screen #cosobookclub #movies https://lithub.com/13-literary-writers-who-have-adapted-other-peoples-books-for-the-screen/

Restaurateurs wanted a special attraction, and theater organs had been gathering dust since the silent-movie era. "Pizza and pipes" was born. https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/01/pizza-and-pipes-organ-music-restaurant-near-me/580327/

Oh god I remember these being for sale. And I wanted them! https://www.vintag.es/2019/11/rocket-shoes.html

As you sit down to your Thanksgiving dinner this week, you might ask yourself whether you could raise a turkey in your own backyard. https://modernfarmer.com/2019/11/are-turkeys-the-new-backyard-chicken

The history of Thanksgiving hasn't changed, but how it's taught in schools will be. https://time.com/5725168/thanksgiving-history-lesson/

"Led by Lehigh University, a partnership of 15 Philadelphia-area libraries has scanned and digitized more than 160,000 pages from 475 original manuscripts, the earliest dating to the ninth century." https://www2.lehigh.edu/news/digitizing-medieval-manuscripts