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Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in āSend to YouTubeā button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.
Inspired by Ben Wallace, I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos! Watch them below, ordered randomly.
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The 25 Most Important Recipes of the Past 100 Years
A great idea for a list: The 25 Most Important Recipes of the Past 100 Years. Includes caesar salad, the last word cocktail, Marcella Hazenās tomato sauce, Julia Childās beef bourg, no-knead bread, and Kenjiās reverse-sear steak. Whatās missing?
Murdoch Mysteries
Iāve decided that my new thing is going to be watching Murdoch Mysteries. Thereās just so much of it. 18 seasons - so far! Itās filmed in Toronto, and all around Ontario. Apparently former PM Stephen Harper had a walk-on role?
In the first episode āMiss Toronto Electric and Lightā is murdered by electricity. Irony!
Yannick Bisson (Murdoch) has a real John Reardon (Hudson) quality that gives me high hopes for this as a very Canadian sort of āwhy do they continue to go there!ā murder mystery show. Like, why do people keep going to the Hudson and Rex version of St. Johnās? It is so small and there is literally a murder a week now. They used to do more kidnappings but lately itās all just murder. Murdoch is murder right off the bat!
Wish me luck in my new journey to become an afficianado of Canadian crime shows.
Watching old Antiqueās Road Show Episodes andā¦
The most bizarre thing I think Iāve seen so far popped up. A giant cradle for your cranky wife!
I found this great write up about it on Tumblr:
The Hen-Pecked Clubās Peace Box, a āpatent cure for a cross wifeā. The Hen-Pecked club was an organisation which encouraged men to do more household tasks to take some of the pressure off their wives. The āPeace Boxā, also known as āthe wife tamerā, was invented by a club member called Harry Tap in 1862. If a wife was nagging her husband too much, the husband could put her inside the box, which could be rocked like a childās cot in order to send the wife to sleep. While she was sleeping the husband would perform all the chores then release his wife who would hopefully have calmed down.
ā Write up via Victoria Fan Guide on Tumblr, and look at Fiona Bruce inside it in this old article about the Roadshow episode.
āCarbonara in a can? This Italian chef thinks itās āgenius,ā but heāll never eat itā
Carbonara in a Can ā
Is it wrong that I would absolutely eat this?
Chef Alessandro Pipero says he doesn't begrudge Heinz for selling a creamy spaghetti in a can. But he wouldn't call it carbonara.
"I'm a Roman man and I love the real carbonara," Pipero told *As It Happens* guest host Tom Harrington.
In a press release, Heinz billed its new canned spaghetti carbonara as a "fail-proof" version of the traditional Italian dish "that comes with absolutely zero drama."
But it's already causing quite a bit of drama among foodies and high-end restaurateurs. A chef in London called it "a disgrace," and a BBC presenter suggested it could mark "the end of culinary civilization."
The controversial culinary creation hits shelves in the U.K. this month, but it will not be coming to Canada.What Happens in a Mind That Canāt āSeeā Mental Images
What Happens in a Mind That Canāt āSeeā Mental Images
This article in Quanta magazine was really interesting to me! Iām aphantasic, and I always thought things like ācounting sheepā and āvisualize itā were just metaphors. I remember discovering the concept of Aphantasia in 2016 or so, and it blew my mind that there were people that could actually visualize things when they were told to imagine a concept.
Saw the apple? Shomstein was confused. She didnāt actually *see* an apple. She could think about an apple: its taste, its shape, its color, the way light might hit it. But she didnāt see it. Behind her eyes, āit was completely black,ā Shomstein recalled. And yet, āI imagined an apple.ā Most of her colleagues reacted differently. They reported actually seeing an apple, some vividly and some faintly, floating like a hologram in front of them.That is me. I imagine the apple, but see nothing. But I do dream in images! I just canāt conjure an image. Apparently, this is normal for aphantasic people!
Because many people with aphantasia dream in images and can recognize objects and faces, it seems likely that their minds store visual information ā they just canāt access it voluntarily or canāt use it to generate the experience of imagery.I also have a pretty weak autobiographical memory, particularly for things like day to day memories of high school; and a terrible sense of direction. Turns out, these things are related!
They found that people with aphantasia indeed tended to have weaker autobiographical memories and less activity in the hippocampus, which helps encode and retrieve such memories.Overall, just a really interesting article.