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Link Roundup!
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Jan 09, 2014
EVERYONE: go back and read Bend It Like Beckham: A Celebration! Some weird file thing cut out the second half of the piece, and I have now restored it, and it's beautiful and you need to read it and share it on all your social media accounts.
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If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
Ancient Grains, Books
Jan 08, 2014
If you give a mouse a cookie,
your life will no longer be your own.
You will never again know peace;
you have already given in.
He's going to ask for a glass of milk
and you will give it to him,
because you are incapable of acting in your own best interests.
When you give him the milk
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Bend It Like Beckham: A Celebration
Ancient Grains, Movies
Jan 08, 2014
In 2003, things were changing for me. I started high school, bought my first pair of jeans that actually fit (flared, with the lowest rise possible), picked my favourite Beatle (John, but also George), and saw Bend it Like Beckham for the first time. All of these events were major milestones, but
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Sweet God, Starfish Have Eyes
Ancient Grains, science
Jan 08, 2014
Some beasts were meant to have eyes; some were not. Starfish, which already operate in that terrifying and nebulous shadow world of animals who behave like plants (oddly enough, these are more frightening than plants that behave like animals), were not meant to. A starfish is a mouth wrapped in a hand.
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Growing Up Interfaith: Any Excuse For a Party
Ancient Grains, Religion
Jan 08, 2014
My mother has two life mottos:
"Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke," and "Any excuse for a party."
These two serve her pretty well, and our family has adopted them for basically any situation.
People tend to look at me funny when I tell them that the latter was the main theory behind
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Gal Science: In Which We Learn About Endosymbiosis
Ancient Grains, science
Jan 08, 2014
As The Toast searches for its one true Gal Scientist, we will be running a ton of wonderful one-off pieces by female scientists of all shapes and sizes and fields and education levels, which we are sure you will enjoy. They’ll live here, so you can always find them. Most recently: The
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Gabbin’ About God: Predestination and/or Free Will
Ancient Grains, Religion
Jan 08, 2014
Welcome back to Gabbin' About God, in which Mallory uses her religious background to explain Christian-y things to Nicole. Most recently: the devil.
Hi Mallory! Can you drop another knowledge bomb on me? Which Christian denominations believe in predestination, and which believe in free will? And, as a Protestant atheist who
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On Editing: My Favourite Posts From Our First Six Months
Ancient Grains, Meta
Jan 08, 2014
As you may have noticed, we didn't get around to doing MY favourite posts in our little birthday celebration, so I will now list them for you, and talk a little bit about how they came to be.
1. Knight of the Swan, by Molly Minturn:
When Molly sent this to us,
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