An Australian brewery wants to buy customers’ solar energy. Asahi Group’s Carlton and United Breweries will happily compensate them for the power—but they can only pay in beer. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-asahi-group-australia-solar/power-drinkers-aussie-brewer-offers-beer-for-excess-solar-energy-idUSKBN2BN16N

The Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction is a resource decades in the making that is now available to the public in an accessible form. Lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower started the project years ago, when he was an editor at the Oxford English Dictionary. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/dictionary-science-fiction-runs-afrofuturism-zero-g-180977224/

Now this is my kind of woodworking porn: a chair made for needy pets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYqz1F6eAVU

Olivia Rutigliano ranks the 100 best, worst, and strangest Sherlock Holmes portrayals of all time.
This listicle is FAR more entertaining than you are expecting.
https://crimereads.com/100-sherlock-holmes-ranked/

Beat author Jack Kerouac didn't just enjoy fantasy baseball; he arguably invented it. https://www.openculture.com/2015/04/jack-kerouacs-secret-obsessive-fantasy-baseball-hobby-before-fantasy-sports-became-a-phenomenon.html

John Wyndham's novels were never cosy. At best, they were dark tales of speculative fiction examining how life continues to exist - in all its mundane desperate ways - against monstrous forces attempting to destroy it. https://flashbak.com/sex-and-death-from-outer-space-the-village-of-the-damned-1960-440240/

Don't Call It Wallpaper| Hand-Painted "Vertical Haute Couture" by de Gournay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3zaLbhen6g

A librarian with a love for eBay built this trove of culinary history. Over the years, Roberta Saltzman accumulated 700 Jewish cookbooks, with a particular focus on community cookbooks from small-town America.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/jewish-cookbook-collection

"Apples in particular have an incredibly complex genetic code, with approximately 57,000 genes—far more genes than the human genome’s estimated 30,000 genes." https://modernfarmer.com/2021/04/why-citizen-scientists-are-working-to-cultivate-new-apple-varieties/

“Time perception matters because it is the experience of time that roots us in our mental reality.” https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/07/15/time-warped-claudia-hammond/

According to a recently formed group of songwriters and producers calling themselves the Pact, the practice, long an open secret in the industry, is as bad if not worse than ever today — and unlike Elvis, the artists are going after credit as well.
https://variety.com/2021/music/news/dirty-business-hit-songwriting-1234946090/

Where Netflix's ‘Bridgerton’ Was Filmed https://www.cntraveler.com/story/bridgerton-netflix-filming-locations

We'll have different faces and different names
Long live many different kinds of races
It's difference of opinion that makes horse races
Just remember the rule about rules, brother
What could be right for one could be wrong for the other
And take a tip from La Belle France: "Viva la difference!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF2LPNiqFWA

From what was once Singapore’s largest prison complex — the Queenstown Remand Prison, housing about 1,000 inmates at its peak — an 8,000 square meter urban farm, Edible Garden City (EGC), now bursts with colorful vegetables and fragrant herbs. https://reasonstobecheerful.world/singapore-urban-farms-food-security/

"I'm just trying to make people smile" – Shaquille O'Neal, after paying off someone's engagement ring. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2021/04/07/shaquille-oneal-pays-off-random-mans-engagement-ring/7122329002/

Clarifying the motivations and benefits of play could tell us much about behavior and cognitive development in people and other animals. Answering this question, however, has proved surprisingly difficult. https://knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2021/why-animals-play

Spanish stylist Alexis Ferrer invented a way to print designs on hair using “photographic inks” and a modified digital printer. https://www.infringe.com/alexis-ferrer/

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have developed a novel type of implantable sensor which can be operated in the body for several months. The sensor is based on color-stable gold nanoparticles that are modified with receptors for specific molecules. Embedded into an artificial polymeric tissue, the nanogold is implanted under the skin where it reports changes in drug concentrations by changing its color.

https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/206524

Even if you can’t get away for National Parks Week, you can still taste the flavors of these natural wonders. From popovers to campfire beans, here are six recipes for the culinary delights within national parks. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/american-national-parks-recipes

See a Satellite Tonight https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/