There are “dream kitchens,” and then there’s the Frankfurt Kitchen, designed by architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky in 1926. https://www.citylab.com/design/2019/05/modern-kitchen-history-design-ideas-domestic-architecture/586345/

Maine’s lobster fishery is one of the country’s most valuable sources of seafood, but lobster bait fish numbers have crashed. Could oft-scorned salmon farms fill the gap? https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/04/salmon-farms-source-bait-maine-lobsters

#Baltimore #cososec

https://twitter.com/thepacketrat/status/1127183784842022918

Truman Capote, The Art of Fiction No. 17 (1957)
"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them."
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4867/truman-capote-the-art-of-fiction-no-17-truman-capote

Why Stalin Loved Tarzan and Wanted John Wayne Shot (2004) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3618310/Why-Stalin-loved-Tarzan-and-wanted-John-Wayne-shot.html

A naked Vermeer Cupid will soon be restored. Lab tests on Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window revealed the figure had been painted over decades after the artist’s death. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/hidden-cupid-resurfaces-in-one-of-vermeer-s-best-known-works

"New speakers might not know what to expect, not so much about amounts but about how this works, how payments happen, what outlays you might have to make, what questions are reasonable to ask." https://medium.com/@cydharrell/getting-paid-to-speak-the-gory-details-7d8eb5325d55

Waymo’s self-driving cars are now available on Lyft’s app in Phoenix https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/7/18536003/waymo-lyft-self-driving-ride-hail-app-phoenix

Natural Scale Caterpillar Soft Robot Is Powered And Controlled With Light #cososcience https://bioengineer.org/natural-scale-caterpillar-soft-robot-is-powered-and-controlled-with-light/

An incredible 8-image composite shot by Jason Weingart of a tornado in Kansas https://twistedsifter.com/2019/05/the-evolution-of-a-tornado/

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

Australia’s new $50 banknotes have a typo. The yellow note, which has been printed 46 million times, misspells “responsibility.” https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/09/australian-50-note-typo-spelling-mistake-printed-46-million-times

...So I'm shopping for a new set of wireless headphones, and considering what I'd get for the money, how much I need, etc.

Whereupon I find this Amazon Q&A:

Question: How well do these block out my girlfriend talking?

Answer: Her voice is already inside your head. Even if you break up with her, she will slowly seize every neuron, thought, memory, and a pair of headphones will not stop the complete take over of your soul. Say goodbye to your sense of self.

https://amzn.to/2E08a6x

A 1984 interview with James Baldwin in The Village Voice mostly about being gay in America. https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/06/22/james-baldwin-on-being-gay-in-america/

One out of every 11,600 people in San Francisco is a billionaire https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/9/18537122/billionaire-study-wealthx-san-francisco

Keep taking the (wax) tablets https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2019/05/keep-taking-the-wax-tablets.html

People who played Pokemon as kids have an area of their brain that is more responsive to cartoon characters than other pictures. https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18531287/pokemon-neuroscience-visual-cortex-brain-information

What book did you read as a child, and then as an adult... and perceive it entirely differently the second time?
#cosobookclub

The Weird Machine That Measured Radio Audiences in the '30s and '40s https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-weird-machine-that-measured-radio-audiences-in-the-1633851253