Culinary Detectives Try to Recover the Formula for a Deliciously Fishy Roman Condiment is an article by Taras Grescoe about recent attempts to recreate the Roman Empire’s most beloved sauce, garum (previouslies on MeFi). In Spain and Portugal, you can …
A History Buried – the Chinese Massacre of 1871
The Chinese Massacre in Los Angeles was one of the worst atrocities to happen in the city. In the end, as a result of an accidental shooting, five hundred local white men killed 19 Chinese men and boys. Only a plaque currently memorializes the terrible…
A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
Historiansplaining is a history podcast by Samuel Biagetti, a historian (and antique dealer) with a Phd in early American history. A small-time podcast with sometimes surprising range and depth and a few real gems, broadly structured in three series:
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Zig-Zag-and Swirl.
Fantastically Wrong: The Inventor of the Airliner Also Invented This Hilariously Absurd ‘Science’.
Alfred Lawson and ‘Manlife’ Documentary Explores Lawsonomy & Its Last Crusader
民衆のブラック・ツイッター史 第3部：Getting Through (2016年–現在)
喜びと苦しみ、調和と衝突、組織と混沌──ブラック・ツイッターの複雑で、いまも続く遺産をひとつの方法で定義することはできない。それでも、現代における最大の社会正義運動を胚胎し、ブラックカルチャーの揺るぎない震源地となった黒人たちのツイッター史を数々の証言から綴る連載最終回は、トランプの当選、そして#BLMを経てブラックネス（黒人らしさ）のいまを改めて問う。
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A final, unexpected gift
Human History Gets a Rewrite (SLAtlantic) William Deresiewicz reviews the forthcoming The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity , by David Graeber and David Wengrow. And what a gift it is, no less ambitious a project than its subtitle claims. …
Weaves of India
Weaves of India Journey across India, as Live History India takes you to stories behind the most famous and historic textiles of India. Eg. Kanchipuram saris
民衆のブラック・ツイッター史 第2部：Rising Up (2012–16年)
黒人少年の痛ましい死を伝えたTwitterは、主流のニュースメディアが何十年も無視し続けてきた黒人のリアルを白日のもとにさらし、もはや不可逆のムーヴメントを生み出していった。いまも続くハッシュタグ・アクティヴィズムの源流は、街頭へと出ていったこのブラック・ツイッターから始まったのだ。現代における最大の社会正義運動である「#BlackLivesMatter」や「#OscarsSoWhite」の誕生、それに人種の垣根を超えた「#MeToo」ムーヴメントを…
GET OVER HERE!
“We certainly did a ton of prep for our video shoots, but some ideas came to us while filming. With Scorpion’s spear, it started with “You know what would be a cool ass move?”. From there you can be a fly on the wall and see us working through the deta…
Fate will unwind as it must
Synodus Horrenda is a podcast about death, dying, and the dead. [CW] [CW: this podcast unavoidably gets pretty heavy. Topics include illness, accidents, murder, assault, and su*cide, as well as racism and antisemitism in certain episodes.]
Via meticul…