One of the minor subplot points in Whit Stillman's movie "Metropolitan" was a couple of the characters' debate over the merits of "Mansfield Park".
Readit Newstosser0001 commented on Jane Austen's Boldest Novel Is Also Her Least Understood nytimes.com/2025/06/27/bo... · Posted by u/lermontov
I'm glad to see this material has a home, but I'm curious why it didn't end up at some institution in the Bay Area close to MMR's home
tosser0001 commented on Dow Slides Another 1k Points. Nasdaq on Pace to Enter Bear Market barrons.com/livecoverage/... · Posted by u/pera
Unlike previous market turmoil (2008, 2020) where the U.S. at least had established global trade order to lean on for the recovery, this feels like the U.S. could be entering a period of sustained damage. I don't see how the U.S. recovers from this in anything like he near term. Americans will have to get used to a long stretch of low economic growth.
The global trade order is going to be reconfigured, but not in the way the Trump thinks. The U.S. is throwing up a wall around itself, but the rest world will continue with the current regime and likely move away from the U.S. permanently.
What's sad is, the Congress could simply revoke the ability for Trump to single-handedly make these tariffs, but they appear too cowed to do anything about it.
What is hard food? Can you be more specific?
I am definitely interested in this.
Anything that requires hard chewing like nuts, raw vegetables and tough meats.
The first I ever heard of this topic was from reading the book "The Evolution of the Human Head" (2011) by Daniel E. Lieberman. It's an academic book, and parts are not exactly light reading targeted for the general public. I had read it when it first came out, seemingly well before it because such of point of discussion.
The problem with this topic is, if you try to look anything up on line you can quickly find yourself in the "manosphere" with its associated toxicity.
tosser0001 commented on Mitochondria as you've never seen them nature.com/immersive/d415... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
Even the Wikipedia entry on them has the classic bean-shaped diagram. If they are not really like that, why did that become the standard representation? Have they always been know to exist in more network-like structures, and was that why there was initial resistance to seeing their origin in free-living prokaryotes?
tosser0001 commented on The Birthday Paradox Experiment (2018) pudding.cool/2018/04/birt... · Posted by u/thunderbong
An analog of the birthday paradox that gets me all the time is what I think of as The Locker Room Paradox. This is where when I go into the locker room after working out and the guy who comes in behind me ends in the locker right next to mine. So there’s two of us in a big empty room awkwardly jostling away.
tosser0001 commented on Cheap Thrills, an album cover by Robert Crumb (2020) musicaficionado.blog/2020... · Posted by u/stareatgoats
Along similar lines, Steve Buscemi's character Seymour in "Ghost World" (2001) is pretty clearly heavily inspired by Robert Crumb. Seymour collects old blues records and it put off by rock music, not to mention normal mainstream American culture. "Ghost World" was based on a comic book and was directed by Terry Zwigoff, the director of "Crumb".
The first record Enid looks at is actually by "R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders" that Seymour directs her away from to another selection. Zwigoff was a member of that group.
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tosser0001 commented on The Naming of America (2023) jonathancohenweb.com/amer... · Posted by u/dadt
> Not surprisingly, the notion that America was named for Vespucci has long been universally accepted, so much so that a lineal descendant, America Vespucci, came to New Orleans in 1839 and asked for a land grant "in recognition of her name and parentage."
I found this little aside in the opening paragraph interesting. Who did she ask? And was she successful?
A quick google search didn’t turn up much about America Vespucci. I did find one article about her that makes her sound very interesting [1], but no mention of the above request. I’m guessing from the way she moved around after 1839 her request was not granted, though.
[1] https://jeffcowiki.miraheze.org/wiki/Marie_Helene_America_Ve...
FamilySearch (free registration) has the passenger manifest of her arrival in New York, 28 Nov 1838 aboard the brig Sofia Eliza:
Americus Vespucius, female, age 26, Tuscany
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939V-51SJ-FT
There are hundreds of newspaper stories from around the country about her in the U.S.
Do we really need to rely on stoop labor to hand-pick crops, or has a relatively cheap labor pool allowed farmers to avoid the costs of automation?
If labor is to be in perennial short supply in the future, I wonder if American farmers will simply be forced to turn to crops that allow machine harvesting.