Rad Geek, to-day:
Happy Kalends of Sextilis y’all. In honor of the event, I’ll be reading Plutarch's Life of Sertorius.
Rad Geek, to-day:
David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. Chapter 3, The Origins of Antiblack Racism in the New World and Chapter 4, How Africans Became Integral to New World History.
Fertility Cult
Not just better food — there was also a single room and air conditioning involved. In any case, I am totally on Yuan Yuan's side here. If a bunch of apes are going to lock you in a cage so they can gawk at you and try and breed you so that they can gawk at all your children, too, then you may as well do your best to exploit their weird fetishes and fertility cults at every opportunity and get whatever you can from it.
Well played, ma'am.
Shared Article from The Huffington Post
Panda Accused Of Faking Pregnancy To Get Better Food
Keepers at the Taipei Zoo were excited. Resident giant panda Yuan Yuan was exhibiting signs of pregnancy -- an all-too-elusive event among captive pan…
Dominique Mosbergen @ huffingtonpost.com
Rad Geek, to-day:
Quot domin?@c4;ab;, tot hostēs.
I was me but now he’s gone.
This arrived the other day on my news feeds:
A new study finds 1980s heavy metal fans have matured into responsible adults.
–Tom Jacobs, The Metalhead Kids Are Alright
Pacific Standard (July 7, 2015)
Fade to black, it’s over. Heavy metal has utterly failed.
Shared Article from psmag.com
The Metalhead Kids Are Alright
Researchers find that former metal fans “were significantly happier in their youth, and better adjusted currently” compared to their peers who preferred other musical genres, and to a parallel group of current college students.
Tom Jacobs @ Pacific Standard