Something to be happy about: A new report shows that LGBTQ+ diversity on TV is at an all-time high. https://apnews.com/8a28e78aa04a4180b2e29f39863cbc52

Maps are a staple of fantasy and adventure literature, and one artist has undertaken the task of assembling a beautiful map that seeks to put together thousands of years of literary history in one diagram, titled Map of the Literature II. https://www.tor.com/2019/10/23/this-wonderful-map-charts-out-the-wide-world-of-literature

This vodka might help to combat climate change 🍸
Well, even if it doesn’t, it could make you feel (temporarily) less worried about it. https://www.wired.com/story/this-martini-wants-to-kill-climate-change-one-sip-at-a-time/

TIL In 2011, Samsung tried to argue in court that Apple's patent for the iPad was invalid because they copied the devices from 2001: A Space Odyssey http://allthingsd.com/20110823/im-sorry-dave-im-afraid-ive-seen-that-design-before/

The Tiaras in the Downton Abbey Movie Are Based on Real Royal Tiaras https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a29007212/downton-abbey-movie-tiaras-royal-family/

A drum machine created with Microsoft Excel https://lifehacker.com/check-out-this-drum-machine-created-with-microsoft-exce-1839643114

In 1827, visitors to London could get a titan’s view of the city by visiting Regent’s Park. There surveyor Thomas Hornor had built a colosseum housing the largest painting in the world, a panorama seven stories tall and 130 feet in diameter. https://www.futilitycloset.com/2019/10/03/an-early-imax/

“Everyone sort of walked away with the impression that polling was broken — that was not accurate,” says Courtney Kennedy, director of survey research at the Pew Research Center. https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2019/election-polls-arent-broken-they-still-cant-predict-future

Stop Trying to Make Turkey Taste Good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rb2iQALiXU

"The Internet has done good things to the English language. That's the most important thing linguist Gretchen McCulloch has to say in her book, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language." https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/11/because-internet-makes-a-linguists-case-for-l33t-speak-other-online-text-fads/

It is still incredibly easy to share (and see) known fake news about politics on Facebook, writes @laurahazardowen https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/11/it-is-still-incredibly-easy-to-share-and-see-known-fake-news-about-politics-on-facebook

"The idea to create a communist champagne industry—a Herculean undertaking, given the context—came directly from Joseph Stalin, who hailed from the Republic of Georgia, home to the world’s oldest winemaking culture."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/champagne-in-soviet-union

"Around 9,000 catalogues from more than 390 auction houses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland dating from 1901 to 1945 are now available online, a new resource that art-market historians and provenance researchers seeking to trace and identify Nazi-looted art say is invaluable to their work."
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/german-pre-1945-auction-catalogues-are-published-online

Inspired by the Monday Night Football cat... Animals on the Playing Field.
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/11/photos-animals-playing-field/601528/

Here's an excerpt from 'Ending the War on Artisan Cheese,' a new book that exposes government actions that limit food choice under the guise of food safety: https://modernfarmer.com/2019/11/artisan-cheesemakers-unite/

We couldn’t find a public resource like this. So we created it.

Every subpoena
Every letter from White House to witness
Every witness’s testimony
The whistleblower’s 2-page memo before his complaint (miss that one?)
Every court filing (FOIA plus)
More
#cososec

https://www.justsecurity.org/67076/public-document-clearinghouse-ukraine-impeachment-inquiry/

The Typewriter (a concerto for orchestra and solo typewriter) https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=jinGW7ZDGPM

“This must be what Walt meant when he said that I couldn’t be too sensitive.” Inside the early struggles of the women who built Disney.
https://lithub.com/inside-the-early-struggles-of-the-women-who-built-disney/

My Amazon review of _The Autoimmune Protocol Comfort Food Cookbook: 100+ Nourishing Allergen-Free Recipes_ By Michelle Hoover

3 stars

Perfectly nice recipes, though I have some quibbles #cosobookclub #AIP #cooking https://amzn.to/36NN7Ay