Cut, paste and remix your way through this century-spanning history of collage https://aeon.co/videos/cut-paste-and-remix-your-way-through-this-century-spanning-history-of-collage

An interview with evangelical historian Thomas S. Kidd about the surprising diversity of the born-again Christian movement and its precarious ties to the Republican Party.

>> Probably something like 45 percent of self-identified evangelicals didn’t vote in 2016. That’s why I want to pump the brakes on that number, especially when it gets reported as “81 percent of evangelicals voted for Trump,” which is simply not true. It’s way off from being true.

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2020/01/are-evangelicals-actually-all-in-for-trump/

"We drained and rinsed our way through 12 brands of chickpeas to find the best one for weeknight dinners. Did your favorite garbanzo make us go gonzo?"

https://www.epicurious.com/ingredients/the-best-canned-chickpeas-you-can-buy-at-the-store-article

The researchers discovered when stress triggers the "fight or flight" response, it depletes pigment-producing stem cells in hair follicles. https://newatlas.com/medical/harvard-how-stress-turns-hair-gray-stem-cells/

Yup.

In 1930s New York, the mayor took on the mafia by banning artichokes. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strange-mafia-histories

When movie accents go very, very wrong
Rather more serious (and interesting) than you're expecting
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20200116-are-authentic-accents-important-in-film-and-tv

"They dotted their hairdos with flickering fireflies or let live beetles, leashed to pins, roam over their bodices." https://daily.jstor.org/insect-jewelry-of-the-victorian-era/

A new study offers insight into the lives lost when Italy’s Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79. https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/herculaneum-vesuvius

People go to the library twice as often as they go to the movies.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/284009/library-visits-outpaced-trips-movies-2019.aspx

Space Invaders
http://www.computerarcheology.com/Arcade/SpaceInvaders/

What does it cost to open a fast-food franchise? A bunch of interesting numbers in this.
https://thehustle.co/why-it-only-costs-10k-to-own-a-chick-fil-a-franchise/

The virus that made America talk about abortion.
...I had no idea.
https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/podcast/roe-v-wade-v-rubella

"Perhaps no part of life in the United States is more unambiguously exceptional than this: We have so many damn bathrooms." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/why-do-american-houses-have-so-many-bathrooms/605338/

You can track your assets, including everything from ROVs to containers anywhere in the world with Iridium’s new IoT tracking capability.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynerash/2020/01/23/iridium-offers-a-global-answer-to-the-question-wheres-my-stuff/#528038213ffe

More than 700 author interviews, which were broadcast between 1982 and 1993 on the CBS Radio News program Book Beat, are now digitally available online.
https://www.ohio.edu/library/about/news-events/all-news/book-beat-airs-again-don-swaim-digital-collection

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."--Abraham Lincoln

Brewing a better espresso, with a shot of math
https://bioengineer.org/brewing-a-better-espresso-with-a-shot-of-math/