Why do your musical tastes get frozen over in your twenties?

One grim day (when youth is over) you find that new music gets on your nerves. But why do our musical tastes freeze over? By Lary Wallace.
Read more: https://aeon.co/essays/why-do-your-musical-tastes-get-frozen-over-in-your-twenties?source=Snapzu

The Nazi Sibling Rivalry That Divided a Town and Created Modern Sportswear

By creating Adidas and Puma, the Dassler Brothers divided both their families and their home town, all while changing sports forever. By Brian Blickenstaff.
Read more: https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/the-nazi-sibling-rivalry-that-divided-a-town-and-created-modern-sportswear/?source=Snapzu

Thunderstruck: ‘Les Misérables’

Tim Parks reviews “The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of ‘Les Misérables’” by David Bellos.
Read more: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n09/tim-parks/thunderstruck?source=Snapzu

The Superior Human?

The myth that humans are superior to all other life forms is a fundamental and unquestioned premise of dominant culture. It is an old historical idea, rooted in colonialism, and is deeply embedded in religion and science. It is one of the root causes for the destruction of the natural world, animal cruelty, war, the extinction of species and other immense problems. The Superior Human? challenges this arrogant and self-destructive ideology; unwinds the myths, using examples and common sense.
Read more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqT82oGeax0?source=Snapzu

People Have Limited Knowledge. What’s the Remedy? Nobody Knows

In a complex world, people fail to realize just how ignorant they are. In “The Knowledge Illusion,” Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach tell them.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/books/review/knowledge-illusion-steven-sloman-philip-fernbach.html?source=Snapzu

The new season of a much-loved Netflix series has leaked online early following hack

A hacker who was holding Netflix to ransom following claims they have stolen the new season of Orange Is the New Black has leaked episode online. Variety has confirmed that the hacker, known as The Dark Overlord, uploaded the episodes to illegal file-sharing website Pirate Bay after the streaming service failed to pay an undisclosed amount of money. Netflix released a statement earlier saying: “We are aware of the situation. A production vendor used by several major TV studios had its security compromised and the appropriate law enforcement authorities are involved.“
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/netflix-orange-is-the-new-black-season-5-episode-1-leak-online-early-hacker-pirate-bay-a7709486.html?source=Snapzu

Journey Through 100 of Japan’s Finest Gardens

Marc Peter Keane in an American landscape architect who spent almost 20 years in Kyoto practicing landscape design. In fact, he was the first foreigner to receive a working visa as a landscape architect. Now back stateside, Keane maintains an office in upstate New York where he designs Japanese gardens for both public and private spaces. It’s hard to think of a better person to serve as a personal guide through 100 of Japan’s Finest Gardens.
Read more: http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2017/04/26/journey-through-100-of-japans-finest-gardens/?source=Snapzu

If I could be the rain

Rosalie Sorrels
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/rosalie-sorrels-if-i-could-be-the-rain?source=Snapzu

Victorian Marine Biologist Margaret Gatty’s Stunning Drawings of Seaweed

The tenderness of feathers meets the grandeur of trees in the otherworldly life-forms of the seas, which offered an unexpected entry point for women in science.
Read more: https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/04/27/margaret-gatty-seaweed/?source=Snapzu

Roseanne Might Be the Next Show to Return From the Dead

Who's ready to return to Lanford? Two decades after going off the air, multiple reports point to an eight-episode revival of the classic blue-collar comedy Roseanne is in the works with the all the key players attached to reprise their roles. Yes, even John Goodman, despite the last-minute reveal in the original series finale that he'd actually died a season earlier.
Read more: http://www.eonline.com/news/846892/roseanne-might-be-the-next-show-to-return-from-the-dead?source=Snapzu

'Until the Drug Dealer's Teeth Rattle'

A new book examines how black communities inadvertently helped lay the groundwork for mass incarceration.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/james-forman-mass-incarceration/524328/?source=Snapzu

Eleanore Roosevelt: “Can a Woman Ever Be President of the United States?”

In the fall of 1932, when Eleanor Roosevelt was teaching American history at a high school for girls, editing a magazine called "Babies—Just Babies," and helping her husband in the last weeks of his run for president of the United States by making a gazillion campaign stops—a speech here, a photograph there—the Associated Press assigned a political reporter named Lorena Hickok to follow her around. Jill Lepore on one of the greatest first ladies of all time.
Read more: http://lithub.com/eleanore-roosevelt-can-a-woman-ever-be-president-of-the-united-states/?source=Snapzu

Sheryl Sandberg's Advice for Grieving

The Facebook COO opens up about what she’s learned since the sudden death of her husband in 2015.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/sandberg-optionb/524640/?source=Snapzu

As colleges ditch books, the future of the campus library is changing

As major universities like UC Berkeley abandon traditional book collections, the role of campus libraries is starting to look a little different from the good old days of an offline era.
Read more: http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2017/0425/As-colleges-ditch-books-the-future-of-the-campus-library-is-changing?source=Snapzu

Where did all the saxophones go?

How one instrument went from being the backbone of American popular music to being a punchline in a joke about the ’80s. There’s no song in the Top 40 right now with a saxophone solo, there’s hardly a defined saxophone part on any of those songs at all.
Read more: https://theoutline.com/post/1409/saxophones-in-american-pop-music-history?source=Snapzu

Heavy Metal Britannia

Nigel Planer narrates a documentary which traces the origins and development of British heavy metal from its humble beginnings in the industrialised Midlands to its proud international triumph.
Read more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlpVVicUuQ8?source=Snapzu

'Luxury' Fyre Festival is cancelled with ticket-holders still stranded in Bahamas

A luxury music festival in the Bahamas, with tickets costing up to $12,000 (£9,200), has now been officially postponed after reports of no security and cancelled flights. Fyre Festival, co-organised by Ja Rule, promised a "cultural moment created from a blend of music, art and food". Tickets included a flight from Miami, a stay in a "geodesic dome" and activities including yoga and kayaking. Festival-goers have described the event as a "complete disaster".
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39743303/fyre-festival-turns-from-luxury-to-disaster-with-ticket-holders-stranded-in-bahamas?source=Snapzu

The Lingering Legacy of Psychedelia

Jesse Jarnow’s new book complicates and extends the history of LSD and sixties counterculture. By Hua Hsu. (May 17, 2016)
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-lingering-legacy-of-psychedelia?mbid=social_twitter?source=Snapzu

The Rise of the Global Novelist

How to read fiction from around the world in an age of xenophobic populism.
Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/141676/rise-global-novelist-adam-kirsch-review?source=Snapzu

Why should you read Tolstoy's "War and Peace"?

"War and Peace." A tome. A slog. The sort of book you shouldn’t read in bed because if you fall asleep it could give you a concussion. Right? Only partly. "War and Peace" is a long book, sure, but it’s also a thrilling examination of history populated with some of the deepest, most realistic characters you’ll find anywhere. Brendan Pelsue shares everything you need to know to read this classic book.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/gladsdotter/why-should-you-read-tolstoys-war-and-peace?source=Snapzu

Rime without reason: Did Coleridge foretell his own future in a poem?

Glimpsed through the lens of Guite’s biography, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” constitutes the “involucrum” of Coleridge’s existential chrysalis. By Kelly Grovier.
Read more: http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/rime-without-reason-coleridge/?source=Snapzu

How eBooks lost their shine: 'Kindles now look clunky and unhip'

Just a few years ago, the Kindle was being blamed for the death of the traditional book. But the latest figures show a dramatic reversal of fortunes, with sales of ebooks plunging. So what’s behind this resurgence?
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/27/how-ebooks-lost-their-shine-kindles-look-clunky-unhip-?source=Snapzu

This Is Spinal Tap’s $400 Million Lawsuit

In comedy, as in rock ’n’ roll, nothing is quite as easy as it looks. And so it makes sense that several years before the 1984 release of the legendary rock ’n’ roll mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, director Rob Reiner and stars and co-writers Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer first had to make a shorter version of the same movie: a sort of sample-size Spinal Tap, meant to whet the appetite of studios that might bankroll the real thing.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-04-20/this-is-spinal-tap-s-400-million-lawsuit?source=Snapzu

Jonathan Demme, Oscar-Winning Director of ‘Silence of the Lambs,’ Dies At 73 — Exclusive

Jonathan Demme, the filmmaker whose career ranged from the David Byrne documentary “Stop Making Sense” to the Oscar-winning “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Philadelphia,” died this morning in New York. He was 73. The cause was esophageal cancer and complications from heart disease, according to a source close to the family. He was originally treated for the disease in 2010, but suffered from a recurrence in 2015, and his condition deteriorated in recent weeks.
Read more: http://www.indiewire.com/2017/04/jonathan-demme-dead-73-silence-of-the-lambs-1201809289/?source=Snapzu

The Books That Made Your Favorite Writers Want to Write

It’s a question that’s asked by interviewers all the time: how did you become a writer? It’s kind of a lob, and for many authors, the answer is obvious. Reading made them into writers. But while many authors cite a lifetime love of the written word, or a storytelling acumen developed in the womb, or a childhood spent loosed in libraries, some can point to a specific book and say: that one.
Read more: http://lithub.com/the-books-that-made-your-favorite-writers-want-to-write/?source=Snapzu

Romania’s Problem with Dracula

Bram Stoker’s novel was a mixed blessing for Romania. It attracted tourists, but the legend was at odds with communist ideals and made a villain of a national hero.
Read more: http://www.historytoday.com/duncan-light/romania%E2%80%99s-problem-dracula?source=Snapzu

Jill Lepore on the Challenge of Explaining Things

Scholars who want to write beyond the academy often ask, where are the models for such a thing? Jill Lepore is often the answer. She is an accomplished essayist, and a public voice for producing historical work that engages with audiences well beyond the classroom. Her publications have attended to technologies of evidence and writing, to the craft of historical writing itself, and to subjects as wide-ranging as Wonder Woman and board games. Benjamin Cohen spoke with Lepore about the challenges and meanings of writing for a broad public audience.
Read more: http://www.publicbooks.org/jill-lepore-on-the-challenge-of-explaining-things/?source=Snapzu

The Why of Cooking

It’s a shame that the standard way of learning how to cook is by following recipes. To be sure, they are a wonderfully effective way to approximate a dish as it appeared in a test kitchen, at a star chef’s restaurant, or on TV. And they can be an excellent inspiration for even the least ambitious home cooks to liven up a weeknight dinner. But recipes, for all their precision and completeness, are poor teachers. They tell you what to do, but they rarely tell you why to do it.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/the-why-of-cooking-samin-nosrat/523923/?source=Snapzu

This Photo Looks Fake, But It Is So Real...And So Awesome. This Used To Happen.

This takes extreme sports to a new level.
Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/motorcycle-chariots/?source=Snapzu

Creating The Never-Ending Bloom

John Edmark's sculptures are both mesmerizing and mathematical. Using meticulously crafted platforms, patterns, and layers, Edmark's art explores the seemingly magical properties that are present in spiral geometries. In his most recent body of work, Edmark creates a series of animating “blooms” that endlessly unfold and animate as they spin beneath a strobe light.
Read more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5p2A5mazEs?source=Snapzu

Writers Guild Members Vote for Strike Authorization With 96% Support

More than 96% of the voting members of the Writers Guild of America have authorized a strike against production companies. The WGA released the results Monday, a day ahead of the resumption of contract negotiations on a master contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. A work stoppage could start as early as May 2, after the current three-year master contract has expired.
Read more: http://variety.com/2017/film/news/writers-guild-vote-strike-authorization-1202393874/?source=Snapzu

‘But It’s Tradition!’ Is No Reason To Ban Tie Games In MLB

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred is trying to shorten the length of baseball games. He ushered in an (asinine) new intentional walk rule this season, and the minor leagues are testing an absurd rule that places a runner on second base to start every extra inning. Now, ESPN lead baseball announcer Jon Sciambi and New York Post baseball columnist Joel Sherman have another proposal for the commish: That games tied after the 12th inning should end that way. Many people think there will be backlash against the idea, but ties happened all the time during baseball’s glorious early days.
Read more: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/but-its-tradition-is-no-reason-to-ban-ties-games-in-mlb/?source=Snapzu

The Book That Scandalized the New York Intellectuals

With “Making It,” Norman Podhoretz attempted to craft a sociology of his set—and ended up ostracized from it. 
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/01/the-book-that-scandalized-the-new-york-intellectuals?source=Snapzu

Dale Earnhardt Jr. to retire from NASCAR Cup Series following 2017

Download the Hendrick Motorsports Mobile App and stay up to date while on the go.
Read more: http://www.hendrickmotorsports.com/news/articles/78455/dale-earnhardt-jr-to-retire-from-nascar-cup-series-following-2017?source=Snapzu

'Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' Author Robert M. Pirsig Dies At 88

Robert M. Pirsig, who inspired generations to road trip across America with his "novelistic autobigraphy," Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, died Monday at the age of 88. His publisher William Morrow & Company said in a statement that Pirsig died at his home in South Berwick, Maine, "after a period of failing health."
Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/24/525443040/-zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-author-robert-m-pirsig-dies-at-88?source=Snapzu

A punk take on The Wizard of Oz screens in a massive graffiti installation.

This version of the installation is part of a nationwide tour. If, on a recent Saturday night, you happened to find yourself walking down a desolate street at the edge of L.A.’s Skid Row, you might have passed an open warehouse roll gate in a building displaying a Swoon mural on the exterior. Inside that warehouse, you would have immediately encountered a giant multi-eyed upside-down alien next to a wolf serving fresh popcorn. A film was screening deep inside the space, and if you made your way past the small shack with a roof made of compressed spray cans — and didn’t trip over another pile of empty paint cans with a small metal chimney spew
Read more: https://hyperallergic.com/373873/a-punk-take-on-the-wizard-of-oz-screens-in-a-massive-graffiti-installation/??source=Snapzu

Lectins Could Become the Next Gluten

Plant proteins called lectins are an emerging source of confusion and fear. Is there any actual cause for concern?
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/04/the-next-gluten/523686/?source=Snapzu

Why Avengers 4 Doesn't Have A Title Yet, According To Kevin Feige

Following one year after Joe and Anthony Russo's The Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel Studios' upcoming The Avengers 4 is different from every other upcoming project in the franchise in one specific way: it's the only one without a title. While the project was originally called The Avengers: Infinity War Part 2, that name was taken away last year when it was revealed that it wasn't really an accurate description of the blockbuster.
Read more: http://www.cinemablend.com/news/1650510/why-avengers-4-doesnt-have-a-title-yet-according-to-kevin-feige?source=Snapzu

Noam Chomsky - What We Really Want

Read more: http://snapzu.com/Gozzin/noam-chomsky-what-we-really-want?source=Snapzu

States are moving to cut college costs by introducing open-source textbooks

Every cost associated with higher learning has steadily increased over the past decade, but none more so than college textbooks. While tuition increased by 63% between 2006 and 2016, and housing costs increased by 50%, the cost of textbooks went up by 88%, according to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Read more: https://qz.com/962487/states-are-moving-to-cut-college-costs-by-introducing-open-source-textbooks/?source=Snapzu

Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth”

A Richly Imagined, Dreamlike Voyage of Self-Discovery and Character Formation. By Guillermo Navarro.
Read more: https://cinephiliabeyond.org/guillermo-del-toros-pans-labyrinth/?source=Snapzu

Books and roses

Anyone who thinks paper books are dead has never been in a Barcelona bookshop the day before Sant Jordi. The Patron Saint festival is Catalunya’s equivalent of Valentine’s day. But as well as giving long-stemmed red roses people give books. Lots and lots of books. Some €20 million worth of books are sold (gifted) on the day itself.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/23/books-and-roses/?source=Snapzu

Challenged and Banned: Flowers for Algernon - Unbound Worlds

Unlike some other challenged and banned books, you'll have to actually go looking for the passages in Flowers that continually set the censors off.
Read more: http://www.unboundworlds.com/2008/10/challenged-and-banned-flowers-for-algernon/?source=Snapzu

The Handmaid’s Tale Is a Warning to Conservative Women

Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel lays bare the horrors of collusion with the patriarchy. By Sarah Jones.
Read more: http://newrepublic.com/article/141674/handmaids-tale-hulu-warning-conservative-women?source=Snapzu

Wildfire

Michael Martin Murphey and The Rio Grande Band
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/wildfire?source=Snapzu

Historical Fiction is More Important Than Ever: 10 Writers Weigh In

Sometimes, the best way to learn the mistakes of the past is to feel them.
Read more: http://lithub.com/historical-fiction-is-more-important-than-ever-10-writers-weigh-in/?source=Snapzu

Odisea

Moscow Noir
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/odisea?source=Snapzu

Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2: a scientist's review

The Guardians of the Galaxy team are rocking the universe again in the latest volume of the science fiction blockbuster. But how does the science stand up to some number crunching?
Read more: https://theconversation.com/guardians-of-the-galaxy-volume-2-a-scientists-review-76511?source=Snapzu

Burnin’ for You

Blue Oyster Cult
Read more: http://snapzu.com/AdelleChattre/burnin-for-you?source=Snapzu

Literary Look Behind the Iron Curtain: Best North Korea Books

Though North Korea remains as impenetrable as ever, these books offer glimpses into the nation through fiction, memoir, and more.
Read more: http://www.signature-reads.com/2017/04/literary-look-behind-the-iron-curtain-best-north-korea-books/?source=Snapzu