1979 Making bagels by hand in Brooklyn, NY [7:22] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJEEhfNXgFc&feature=emb_logo

Cheese is here to save us.

Or: My Amazon review of _Di Bruno Bros. House of Cheese: A Guide to Wedges, Recipes, and Pairings_. A cheese guide for the perplexed #cooking #cosobookclub

https://www.amazon.com/review/R3T22YGR26UJIJ

An 8-year-old box of Twinkies has disproved the myth that the Hostess product never goes bad. Upon closer inspection, it also revealed that the snack may decompose differently than your average foodstuff. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/633759/8-year-old-twinkies-intrigue-fungus-experts

A pandemic palette has emerged. Paint sales are up and everyone is choosing the same colors. https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/wall-paint-color-quarantine-1234574643/

"A Madonna and Child painting with a history almost as enigmatic as the Mona Lisa's smile has been identified as an authentic Raphael canvas by Czech company InsightART, which used a robotic X-ray scanner to investigate the artwork." https://phys.org/news/2020-10-artistic-enigma-decoded-cosmic-czech.html

What the leader of the free world watches for fun, from “Birth of a Nation” to “Finding Dory.”

This is fun reading. https://www.economist.com/1843/2020/10/20/movie-night-at-the-white-house-a-century-of-screenings-decoded

The secret lives of giant-vegetable growers (the hyphen placement is important there) https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/oct/20/were-like-athletes-the-secret-lives-of-giant-vegetable-growers

A village in Oxfordshire, UK, has become a haven for hedgehogs. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/17/prickly-business-hedgehog-highway-knits-a-village-together-kirtlington-oxfordshire-aoe

A wife yells at her husband: "How could you do this to me?!"
Husband: "What did I do?"
Wife: "You slept with my sister, you bastard!"
Husband: "Well, when I went to work she was lying naked on my table and you know she's an attractive woman, what did you expect me to do?"
Wife: "The fucking autopsy."

Just what you need: the solo from Free Bird on the Harmonica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtXP2-5IC2E&feature=youtu.be&mc_cid=3f17afa48a&mc_eid=89b7e25825

A 1947 article in Life lamented the sweaters and was shocked that these women "sometimes even ventured out of dormitories in rolled-up blue jeans and large men's shirts with the tails out." https://theweek.com/articles/878112/feminist-history-cardigan

Trump's Twitter account hacked after Dutch researcher guessed password https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/22/trump-twitter-hacked-dutch-researcher-password

"This is no computer-generated ride. The images come from live cells using a super-resolution microscope. The software then converts the two-dimensional data from the microscope into a three-dimensional immersive visualization." https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/scientists-can-now-take-virtual-walks-through-human-cells

After decades of marginalization, graphic novels are now inarguably coming to be included in this mainstream definition of what is “literary.” https://theconversation.com/graphic-novels-are-overlooked-by-book-prizes-but-thats-starting-to-change-146740

"A new study suggests the unpredictable movements of these dancing eyesores could keep wild dingoes from killing livestock." https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/wacky-tube-men-could-keep-dingoes-away-livestock-australia

I voted!

A toolkit to empower developers and testers

Business performance improves when technologists are empowered, when they have the right environment, and when points of friction are removed.
https://www.functionize.com/blog/a-toolkit-to-empower-developers-and-testers/

The year before Ms. Swindall applied, 7,000 people applied for 12 positions, so it’s not just because it’s challenging to parallel park the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, an automobile that is also a 27-foot-long frankfurter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/style/inside-oscar-mayer-wienermobile.html

Janice Poon is the food stylist you call when you need fantastical food on film, for scenes ranging from gory to gourmet. Though, sometimes, it’s both. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/food-styling