by Ayşe Papatya Bucak
by Langan Kingsley
Eric and Jeff Rosenthal are ItsTheReal, and they have a mixtape out today.
“What, then, of famous murders — ones we didn’t commit or witness, but still live with, in a sense? We stare at a house ringed by crime scene tape during the evening news; if we’re truly devoted, we can follow Court TV’s live coverage of the indictment six months later. But our…
Okay, really, though, should we be reading Willa Cather’s letters? It’s not clear. On one hand, she is dead, so it really doesn’t matter*, and on the other hand, considering the pleasure you may have experienced the first time you…
Known as Pluto’s Gate — Ploutonion in Greek, Plutonium in Latin — the cave was celebrated as the portal to the underworld in Greco-Roman mythology and tradition. … “This space is full of a vapor so misty and dense that one can scarcely see the ground. Any animal that passes inside…
“They dress in bear heads and bells, and behave like beasts.”
Right when you think you’ve been starting to pull things together.
[Thanks, Natalie!]
If Easter or any other recent events have left you with an abundance of hard-boiled eggs, Serious Eats has a few ideas about what to do with them. Elsewhere in food-website news, Food52 has gone back to the farm for April Fool’s.
“…for most of Western history, from ancient Greece to beginning of the nineteenth century, women were assumed to be the sex-crazed porn fiends of their day.”
“The findings suggest that the biggest bang-for-your-buck is for going from no intake to modest intake, or about two servings of fatty fish per week.” — If you can believe it.
