On the next night of Hanukkah, my true love gave to me

[conuly]

A whole bunch of articles to read! (Save the receipt, though, the news is never very good.)

And if you want a striking holiday photo, and a story to go with it, click here.

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English Rifles: The Victorian NRA

Baby born with heart outside body 'doing well'

Subway paleontology: LA construction unearths fossil trove

Arthur Rackham’s Rare and Revolutionary 1917 Illustrations for the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

Woman Asks Elderly Mother For Her Secret Bread Recipe--And Her Instructions Are Everything

Need a New Hobby? Go Looking for Hidden Letterboxes

Ancient wrestling offers a future for some in modern India

Astronomers to Check Mysterious Interstellar Object for Signs of Technology

Who Can Translate This Mysterious Map Rug?

When kids get their first cell phones around the world

Some states aim to get more foster youth graduating from college

Meat tax ‘inevitable’ to beat climate and health crises, says report

Ada Blackjack, the Forgotten Sole Survivor of an Odd Arctic Expedition

Men due to leave Gitmo under Obama seem stuck under Trump

Trump plan to move U.S. embassy to Jerusalem angers Middle East Christians

On the economy, Trump needs to get his statistics straight

Trump Tests the Limits of Shame

'Nobody saved us': Man describes childhood in abusive 'cult'

In India, 6 People Get Death Penalty For 'Untouchable' Attack

Opioid crisis strains foster system as kids pried from homes

Modern slavery: 'I had to eat the dog's food to survive'

Homeless in Rio skyrockets, creating tensions, violence

The West is letting Ukraine lose its battle against corruption

Yazidis caught in 'political football' between Baghdad, Iraqi Kurds

Comments

[wpadmirer]

Between the Artic and Brazil, women of color are getting shit from the world.

[moonhare]

Rackham is among my favorite illustrators of the period, right up there with Milo Winter.

[larryhammer]

Love that holiday photo and story.

ETA: Re the bread -- Janni has a binder with her grandmother's recipes. Unless you know what you're doing, nothing will come out right because a) measurements use the tumbler glasses she happened to have in her Brooklyn apartment and b) she always left out or misstated an ingredient to keep her sister from stealing her recipes.

[conuly]

Maybe Janni could re-write them?

[larryhammer]

She's annotated the ones she knows enough to (and cares enough to).

[kshandra]

I've still got a copy of The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book sitting on my shelf at home.

[movingfinger]

Without going too deeply into the use of "forgotten" instead of "I didn't know about," I will remark that I have an entire book (2004: Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic) about Blackjack, and she is mentioned in accounts of polar strandings, rescues, and exploration. (As is Vic the cat, who survived and was rescued with her, yet another cat who survived under incredibly hard conditions.)

[sallymn]

LOve that map rug...

[peristaltor]

“If policymakers are to cover the true cost of human epidemics like obesity, diabetes and cancer,…then a shift from subsidisation to taxation of the meat industry looks inevitable….”

My dog, but the misinformation from the sugar and grain industries have done their disservice. Those are the causes of the emboldened diseases, according to quite a bit of evidence, not meat.

I would also question which subsidies they propose to remove. Those supporting CAFO feed lots? Sure. Those supporting integrating animals in more traditional soil restoration, though (like the Amish and others have done for decades), that would exacerbate ACC. There is no such thing as resilient and sustainable agriculture without an herbivorous component.

Sorry, had to rant.

[archersangel]

"letterboxes" seem to be the grandparent of geocaching.

[conuly]

Indeed, they are.