Ancient Grains Archive
European Men Gone Wild, and a Digression
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Jul 29, 2013
The charming gentleman on your left is not, apparently, Scarecrow from Batman Begins, but one of the subjects of National Geographic's recent photo-essay on terrifying, amazing-looking costumes still donned in various areas of Europe (basically all areas, just the remoter parts!) for fertility and hunt festivals.
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This Week in Bee Attacks
Ancient Grains, science
Jul 29, 2013
Some things cannot be condensed, only reproduced in their original detail:
A swarm of about 30,000 bees attacked a North Texas couple as they exercised their miniature horses, stinging the animals so many times they died. Kristen Beauregard, 44, was stung about 200 times, and her boyfriend about ...Read More
Your Life in Pictures: Three Years in the Scrapbook Industry
Ancient Grains, Family
Jul 29, 2013
I am by nature an obsessive hoarder of memories, so when I was looking for a job after my first year of college applying at the local scrapbook store seemed like a good choice.
I had held various jobs throughout high school and my first year of college, but I’d never
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Who’s Not Like All the Other Girls?
Ancient Grains, Music
Jul 29, 2013
Previously: Who's the Saddest Girl?
As the Saddest Girl is to singer-songwriters, so is the Different Girl to rockists and pop stars. Other girls are as alike as sands in the hourglass, but not she. She is like the bald eagle wearing a steel crown circling high above the prison fortress the hourglass
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Mausoleums
Ancient Grains, History
Jul 29, 2013
There is an undoubted softening of the dread thought of the burial of loved ones when they can be laid away in the niche of a private Forrester Mausoleum. There is also a sense of security from molestation in years to come. No vain regrets or futile self-reproach haunt the minds of
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Scientists Casually Ruining Mice’s Brains
Ancient Grains, science
Jul 26, 2013
Scientists have finally found a way to implant false memories in mice's brains, for important scientific reasons.
"...And then they start to associate the second chamber with the fear response. See, he's shaking. Pretty cool, right?"
"Yeah. Yeah, it's great."
"You don't seem that excited."
"No, I am. I am. It's great. It's
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Eat Me: The Little Garlic That Could
Ancient Grains, Food
Jul 26, 2013
When I was growing up, my parents owned a women’s clothing store in Queens named “Nancy’s Shoppe,” after my mom. I assume the extra ‘pe’ on ‘shop’ was a fancifying effect. They sold bras and underwear, the unsexy kind - huge, industrial-strength bras that only came in black, white, and beige and
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Cocktail Hour
Ancient Grains, Open Thread
Jul 26, 2013
Hello, dear friends and strangers. I am here because I love two things almost beyond all else: toast and toasts. Meaning booze and bread. Food and drink.
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