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via Slate, Julia Child on the set of her television show, with her editor Judith Jones in the background. Courtesy of Knopf

"Tell me what you cook, and I will tell you what you are." Frayed Knot posted Slate's 25 Most Important Recipes of the Past 100 Years

Comparison of the Pentium weaving with a Pentium die photo from Intel.

Monday, stony Monday posted the excellent The Pentium as a Navajo weaving, about a unique rug design based on Intel's Pentium chip (the P54C, to be exact), painstakingly made using traditional Navajo materials and techniques ... and the fascinating and complex social, cultural, and technological history behind it. (hat tip to grumpybear69 for the title!)

Look, emojis are art ok? If you don’t believe that, then check out this post by ambrosen, which highlights recreations of classic art, using emojis. Come see a fun bit of culture and art!

Detail from Thomas Dolby album The Golden Age of Wireless

She BLINDED me, with one of these several distinct, though interrelated, things! biogeo breaks down what we mean when we say "science."

Photo by Kevin Gale via Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/gale_house/)

Here’s a roundup of recent recommendations over in Ask MetaFilter: Toucan is searching for pleasant sensations to help themselves feel physically good every day and the suggestions are great!()

Caxton1476 is looking for advice on music education for the middle-aged, because it's never to late to get your groove on!

Finally, lizard2590 would like recommendations for podcasts on past pop culture.

Bust of Napolean from 'The Six Napoleans' in The Sherlock Holmes Museum by Gail Frederick

A hat is defined as a shaped covering for the head worn for warmth, as a fashion item, or as part of a uniform. So yes, there have been a lot of hats throughout history, as chronicled by the HatHistorian, in this post by ChurchHatesTucker. Click to check it out and discover the history of that oddly shaped hat worn by Napoleon!

Screenshot from the movie Office Space

Just ignore that PC Load Letter problem, leave those TPS reports for later, and come celebrate 25 years of the movie Office Space! NotMyselfRightNow created a post about the iconic movie that parodying working in an office and others are chiming in with their memories, so if you could just go ahead and click on the link that would be greeaaaat

Tell me some more about two types of people ... A Terrible Llama asks for examples of (lesser known) "two types of people" tropes, and you will either find the answers fascinating, or not.

Come watch this documentary on the British Ritual Year of 2019, which showcases 20 local traditions across the Britain. Long and fascinating, well worth the time!

Twirl Time by The Boy from Bare (cc by)

Among other things, Mefites ponder fashion changes (or lack thereof) in the last 20 years, and whether 96 unfrosted brown sugar PopTarts is too many unfrosted brown sugar PopTarts. Also, bisons are BACK, baby, and, timely: a 24-hour Dr. Who charity livestream event beginning 11/25, POV, Time Lord time.

Full English by jthetzel (cc by)

'Phunniemee' asked about cultures that don't eat breakfast. 'Jane the Brown' provided a deliciously enlightening answer that covers technology, logistics, and history.

Tiny Japanese restaurants in 4K. "... there's a whole channel of these wholesome, calming and hunger-inducing videos"

photo via loc.gov

adamsc links to a super secret stash of cunningly hidden Library of Congress cultural treasure in the Lizzo LOC thread

Conventional by Thomas Hawk (cc by-nc)

Grangousier in Fanfare with a grand deep dive comment on The Rocky Horror Show and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, their roots, the zeitgeist, and connections to the wider culture and adjacent subcultures.

"What's in a name?" by jack dorsey (cc by)

as someone who studies gender, the evolution of nonbinary / trans communities, and cultural ideas about androgyny, I'd categorize "Bixby" as in the name group moving pretty rapidly from a prior masculine-of-center position, to a current "gender neutral" position, and possibly soon to be in the feminine-of-center position. Some Interesting observations from DrMew on ambiguous, androgynous, gender neutral, and unisex naming trends in the We need to talk about Kévin thread.