#his anteater's name is horace

[yellow-jellybean]

it's a sleepy sunday morning even for steve...zzz....remember to rest and take it easy today :3

[sensitivefern]

I went back to Wellfleet on Sunday. Thought I’d better... get a cardiogram at the Hyannis hospital. Great difficulty getting in and out of the car. They took me up in a wheeled chair. When the woman who took the cardiograms sent mine to the doctor and got his report, she said I shouldn’t leave the hospital without seeing him. He was a Greek with the strange name of Grammaticus, who told me I had an infarct... that I had had a heart attack and that it would be dangerous for me to leave the hospital... I lasted in the hospital only till Saturday, then left against the doctor’s advice... The food without salt is inedible. Everybody says ‘O.K.’ after every remark in a way to drive you crazy. The hospital has a new wing, only open a year – financed, I imagine, by Kennedy money – which they seem to be crazy about.

[Edmund Wilson]

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And reparations. Who would pay for the war – or, more realistically, how much would... Germany pay?... On the very day Wilson landed at Brest, Britain reelected its prime minister, David Lloyd George. His platform: Squeeze Germany ‘until the pips squeak’... As Clemenceau observed, it is ‘much easier to make war than peace’.

[1920: The Year of the Six Presidents]

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...and almost without notice, the persecution of witches died out of England – and its death was the first triumph of the humanizing spirit of Rationalism.

Thus the English Protestant world, which had long ago ceased to expect miracles from God, gradually ceased to expect them from the devil. The principles of Descartes now first began to get a hold on English thought...

[England Under the Stuarts]

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...Aborigines, in one scenario, may have traveled from Australia to Tierra del Fuego via Antarctica... [and] Indians crossed the Bering Strait to find the Americas already settled by Australians. Migration across Antarctica! – exactly the sort of extravagant notion that the whitecoats sought to consign to the historical dustbin.

[1491]

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Finally, remember this, that whenever you have an hour to spare you should give thought to your studies... for it is clear that those who gain knowledge from books have keener wits than others, since those who are the most learned have the best proofs for their knowledge. [...] But... I regard no man perfect in knowledge unless he has thoroughly learned and mastered the customs of the place where he is sojourning.

[‘Advice to A Norwegian Merchant’]

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...Americans [are] among the top consumers of calcium (largely by way of dairy products) in the world, [and] also have one of the world’s highest rates of bone fracture. For over eighty years the milk industry, through relentless advertising and the cooperation of our public school systems and the medical professions, has hammered a myth into the collective American psyche: that cow’s milk is a healthy, calcium-rich food essential to building and maintaining strong bones and teeth. Surprisingly, our obsessive consumption of calcium derived from dairy products seems to be a detriment to our bones and our generally health... The world’s biggest consumers of cow’s milk, dairy products, and calcium – Australia, New Zealand, North America, and Western Europe – also have the highest risk of suffering a bone fracture.

For years, numerous studies have shown a link between dairy consumption and a variety of common ailments including allergies, acne, constipation, colitis, eczema, colic, and ear infections, to name just a few... A host of insidious diseases, including bovine tuberculosis, Johne’s disease (implicated as a cause of Crohn’s disease in humans), leukemia and an AIDS-like condition, now infect many dairy herds. An extensive list of contaminants routinely found in dairy food includes poisons like dioxin, pesticides, flame-retardants, dry-cleaning solvent, and even rocket fuel and radioactive substances.

[Whitewash: The Disturbing Truth About Cow’s Milk and Your Health]

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An excellent Cosmetic for the Face.

Take a pound of levigated Hartshorn, two pounds of Rice Powder, half a pound of Ceruss, Powder of dried Bones, Frankincense, Gum Mastic, and Gum Arabic, of each two ounces. Dissolve the whole in a sufficient quantity of Rose-water, and wash the face with this fluid.

[The Toilet of Flora]

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The social status of the American pedagogue helps along the process. Unlike in Europe, where he has a secure and honorable position, he ranks, in the United States, somewhere between a Methodist preacher and a prosperous brick-yard owner – certainly clearly below the latter. Thus the youth of civilized upbringings feels that it would be stooping a bit to take up the rattan. But the plow-hand obviously makes a step upward, and is hence eager for the black gown. Thereby a vicious circle is formed. The plow-hand, by entering the ancient guild, drags it down still further, and so makes it increasingly difficult to snare apprentices from superior castes.

A glance at "Who's Who in America" offers a good deal of support for all this theorizing. There was a time when the typical American professor came from a small area in New England – for generations the seat of a high literacy, and even of a certain austere civilization. But to-day he comes from the region of silos, revivals, and saleratus. Behind him there is absolutely no tradition of aristocratic aloofness and urbanity, or even of mere civilized decency. He is a bind by birth, and he carries the smell of the dunghill into the academic grove – and not only the smell, but also some of the dung itself. What one looks for in such men is dullness, superficiality, a great credulity, an incapacity for learning anything save a few fly-blown rudiments, a passionate yielding to all popular crazes, a malignant distrust of genuine superiority, a huge megalomania. These are precisely the things that one finds in the typical American pedagogue of the new dispensation.

[H. L. Mencken, Prejudices, Third Series]

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❚The Chevrolet Celebrity is a mid-size car produced by Chevrolet. The Celebrity was introduced in 1981 for the 1982 model year. The Celebrity was the best-selling car in the United States in 1986. Although sold for only one generation, it received a variety of facelifts during its nine year run. The coupe was discontinued after 1988, the sedan after 1989 and the wagon by early 1990...

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The hamburger chain Burger King has been buying animal feed produced in soy plantations carved out by the burning of tropical forests in Brazil and Bolivia, according to a new report.

Jaguars, giant anteaters and sloths have all been affected by the disappearance of around 700,000 hectares (1,729,738 acres) of forest land between 2011 and 2015. The campaign group Mighty Earth says that evidence gathered from aerial drones, satellite imaging, supply-chain mapping and field research shows a systematic pattern of forest-burning. Local farmers carried out the forest-burning to grow soybeans for Burger King’s suppliers Cargill and Bunge, the only two agricultural traders known to be operating in the area.

DID YOU KNOW THE INCA EMPIRE LASTED FOR ONLY 95 YEARS?

Until the 1970s, bluefin tuna was a literal trash fish. If it wasn’t put into cat food, sport fishermen paid to have it hauled off to dumps (after taking a smiling photo next to their strung-up carcasses). Until the mid-1900s, tuna’s reputation was so bad in Japan that it was referred to as neko-matagi, food too low for even a cat to eat. Now, bluefin is the most expensive fish in the ocean. The Pacific bluefin population is at less than 3 percent of historic high levels, and last year, a number of environmental groups petitioned the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service to add the fish to its endangered-species list. Demand is so high that many upscale sushi restaurants have refused to take bluefin tuna off their menus, even amid growing concerns about the precipitously low numbers. Compared to pandas or floppy-eared elephants, there’s little public sympathy for the declining bluefin. After all, they’re neither snuggly nor puppy-eyed. They’re just fish.

Hard hitting piece of journalism from the New York Times: A man's struggle on his trying to grow a beard