Nice to see Slate’s caught up to the journalism done five months ago.

Bats?

Bats?

Anyone can send a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Even—and perhaps even particularly—idiots.

Dr, Krug wrote:

Red Delicious does pair well with both Styrofoam and asbestos.

I checked out the website. (mailinator.com may be of use to you if you wish to do the same without giving out your true name.) It didn’t think fresh apple paired with milk for squat. The top five things it suggested for fresh apple were apple juice, fresh grapes, fresh mango, cava (Spain) (which I had to look up; it’s…

There’s an Atlas Obscura article about it here: Sarah Laskow - Why a New Orleans Museum Displays a Can of Water.  The photo may ring a bell.

With additional bungled natural disasters, these kids will graduate to emergency water canned by Anheuser-Busch, imprinted with “We’re sorry it’s not beer.”

That’s exactly the sort of cynicism I’d expect from an Edam.

That’s interesting. I wonder if there was an earlier revision. This scan of one from 1976 (reprinted in 1980) has a surprisingly low number: two pints per person per day, plus that again for washing. (These days, FEMA and the like usually suggest one gallon per person per day.)

Hmn. I’d better Google “bata de casa” to get some more context...

Kalev Leetaru - Today’s Deep Learning Is Like Magic - In All The Wrong Ways.

BRAINS

Harmon busts out her moves in the video for Stevens’ latest single, “Video Game,” which—and we hate to be nit-picky here—features her dancing in front of a backdrop that looks absolutely nothing like a video game.

CNN’s Christina Maxouris and Margaret Shuttleworth contributed to this report:

Users have described it as tasting like rotten eggs. But that’s not really the point. The point is that it looks so good when you break it open. . .

That’s great, but this is the photo:

more smart-phone-inspired stylistic tics

That’s where language gets treacherous on you. “Medlar” denotes a kind of fruit, yes, but in Middle English and Early Modern English, it also carries a whole MESS of connotations. Wikipedia: Mespilus germanica goes into it.

Early Modern—the English Shakespeare wrote, around 1600—is about as old as a recent English speaker can readily understand. (And even that gets a little dicey. Quick, what’s a tallow-catch? What, exactly, am I suggesting by comparing _____’s lips to the sweetest of medlars?) Understanding Middle English requires, at a…