Things I noticed this week (20 Jun 2021)

The health benefits of coffee

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/well/eat/coffee-health-benefits.html

Democrats can keep the House in 2022

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/05/10/democrats-can-keep-the-house-in-2022-really/

How London’s trees are saving the capital billions

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-09/how-london-s-trees-help-boost-the-local-economy

70% of cross-border TV channels now fall under the AVMSD jurisdiction of The Netherlands, Luxembourg and Spain

https://www.obs.coe.int/en/web/observatoire/home/-/asset_publisher/wy5m8bRgOygg/content/les-grandes-tendances-du-secteur-audiovisuel-europeen-tous-les-chiffres-cles-pour-imaginer-le-monde-post-covid-?inheritRedirect=false&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.obs.coe.int%2Fen%2Fweb%2Fobservatoire%2Fhome%3Fp_p_id%3D101_INSTANCE_wy5m8bRgOygg%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D4

Brexit deals devastate UK farmers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-fVv6QncNo

Classic Thai mussels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgyUi5bAx_I

A short history of the best bad Top of the Pops performances

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX3yHAMldXI

Making a 90s club smash with the Roland JD-800 expansion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KswY7ckcw5o

Things I noticed this week (13 June 2021)

Joshua Corey on the enduring appeal of Jim Rockford

http://www.joshua-corey.com/blog/2019/6/21/this-is-jim-rockford

Judge slams Michael Gove’s office as openDemocracy wins transparency court case

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/freedom-of-information/foi-clearing-house-michael-gove-cabinet-office-opendemocracy-wins-court-case-uk-government/

Massachusetts launches ‘Vax Express’ — a rolling vaccination train that targets hard-hit communities

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/12/nation/massachusetts-launches-vax-express-rolling-vaccination-train-that-targets-hard-hit-communities/

Shell and Hitler

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/calls-for-shell-to-apologise-for-fuelling-nazi-war-machine/

Keep an eye on what’s happening in the red states

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/06/republican-state-legislatures-changes/619086/

Lake Mead: largest US reservoir drops to record low

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57436860

Renzo Martens: From 'Enjoy Poverty' to 'White Cube'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAIZ-nAwA2M

Lasagna in an Emilian Michelin restaurant with Massimo Spigaroli - Antica Corte Pallavicina*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXZq6crD6WI

Things I noticed this week (5th June 2021)

18 million trees to be planted around Glasgow

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-57315467

The southwest US’s climate peril

https://www.axios.com/climate-southwest-drought-wildfires-e0e0132c-c3d8-4872-b623-280f30383155.html

California assault weapon ban overturned, with an eye to the Supreme Court

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/05/us/assault-weapons-ban-california.html

Tove Jansson, the island of Klovharun, and Walthamstow

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/05/tove-jansson-moomins-woman-fell-in-love-with-an-island-summer-book

Turbot with lobster béarnaise sauce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAw2_gF3YKI

Inside one of the last bohemian homes at the Chelsea Hotel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF3nQWSnE2Q

60s and 70s Japanese instrumental Cinema Funk beats and breaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA9LVzuC7z4

Grupo Medusa: Grupo Medusa (1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfMEV-qIYpc

The organist goes off the traditional path

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LR-H2OdfoA

Things I noticed this week (29th May 2021)

BBC Radio 4: Piccadilly

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w9ty

Death in the Himalayas

https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/death-in-the-himalayas-poverty-fear-stretched-resources-propel-indias-covid-crisis

Finland: new standards

https://newstandards.info/

Port in a storm - no end to global shipping chaos

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-Big-Story/Port-in-a-storm-No-end-in-sight-to-global-shipping-chaos

Estuary Festival - live and online 23rd May - 13 June

https://www.estuaryfestival.com

The mystery of magic’s greatest card trick

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/23/style/berglas-effect-card-trick.html

Patel, Mirza and the middlemen

https://goodlawproject.org/patel-mirza-and-the-middlemen/

Luttrell Live from Arjunadeep x Printworks London 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I4E80yC7A0

Caesar Salad

https://www.withlovepaperandwine.com/food/original-ceasars-salad-tijuana-casears-restaurant-bar

Things I noticed this week (23rd May 2021)

Johnson as Disraeli

https://davidallengreen.com/2021/05/boris-johnson-is-not-like-winston-churchill-he-is-far-more-like-benjamin-disraeli-and-this-should-worry-liberals-and-progressives/

Bill Gates/Questionable Behaviour

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/business/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-epstein.html

Piero Umiliani - To-Day’s Sound, 1973

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGUUfKoGQc4&t=21s

Native Oysters reintroduced into Firth of Clyde

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-57100258

Glimpses of a deserted Soviet Mining Town, preserved in the High Arctic

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/travel/pyramiden-svalbard-mining-town.html

Brexit witness archive: Alistair Campbell

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-witness-archive/alastair-campbell/

World’s biggest iceberg breaks off in Anrarcica as glaciers retreat

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-19/world-s-largest-iceberg-breaks-off-in-antarctica-as-glaciers-retreat

Unattended ambient music - ‘Snow Drift’ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THM4fUdz8Mc

Recipe: Cabbage Rolls - Polish Golabki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ckKeuH9j9A

Things I noticed this week (16 May 2021)

The Rise and Fall of America’s Malls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaZQPExRuCo

Bunzl: yet another lobbying scandal

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/bunzl-lobbying-scandal/

‘We won’t be bouncing back’ – the unsettling truth about the big reopening

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/may/12/bouncing-back-unsettling-truth-big-reopening

Trading up: one woman’s quest to swap a hairpin for a house

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/may/12/demi-skipper-bobby-pin-trade-house

Scotland: a future outside of the United Kingdom? DW Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-fUi8UX_Hs

Greensill: a tale of hubris, hype and greed | FT Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhkFbgxQuXA

The secret of Dave’s success

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-secret-of-daves-success/

Dark Money Group Brags About Writing GOP Voter Suppression Bills Across the Country

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/05/heritage-foundation-dark-money-voter-suppression-laws/

Reading Edmund Burke

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/edmund-burke-conservatism-tradition-hierarchy

'Shocking and Horrifying': Israel destroys AP office in Gaza

https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-fe452147166f55ba5a9d32e6ba8b53d7

Ful Medames - Fava Beans three delicious ways

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8eMVqyR1l0

Shinichi Atobe - Butterfly Effect (Full Album)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpphVRbFeyI

Things I noticed this week (8th May 2021)

A prisoner’s perspective

https://www.newstatesman.com/Jacques-louis-david-view-from-luxembourg

Gunboats at the ready

https://westcountrybylines.co.uk/gunboats-at-the-ready/

The complexities of being heard in Kashmir

https://www.frieze.com/article/can-you-hear-my-voice-2021-review

Seven takeaways from Michel Barnier’s Brexit book

https://www.politico.eu/article/7-things-to-know-about-barniers-brexit-memoir/

Origins of Covid - following the clues

https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038

What You Should Know About Yair Lapid, The Man Just Tasked With Trying to Replace Netanyahu

https://yair.substack.com/p/what-you-should-know-about-yair-lapid

500 Windrush victims waiting over a year for compensation

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/windrush-scandal-compensation-victims-b1840175.html

BBC obituary programme for Harold Wilson, 1995

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjTyFeAslpE

Ken Clarke in conversation with Peter Mandelson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB7FCc83spU

Talking Heads on the South Bank Show (1979)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5EzLDD1D_Q

Red beans and rice - southern U.S. style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOtE_mrV3SY

Peter Cook’s biased judge sketch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyos-M48B8U

Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56978344

Things I noticed this week (2nd May 2021)

The remote visa free island at the top of the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPbZZ1qIozk

AI is neither artificial or intelligent 

https://www.wired.com/story/researcher-says-ai-not-artificial-intelligent

My dad. the undercover policeman

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/26/my-dad-undercover-policeman-cop-clare-carson

UK aid cuts hit vital coronavirus research around the world

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/apr/30/uks-aid-cuts-hit-vital-coronavirus-research-around-world

A Bloody Stupid Idea: James Butler on Owen Hatherley’s “Red London”

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n09/james-butler/a-bloody-stupid-idea

Magnetar - Mark Lettieri

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w13bgirKcg

39 Ways to Save the Planet

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qwt3

Proposed Changes to Judicial Review will make government ‘untouchable’ 

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/apr/30/judicial-review-changes-will-make-government-untouchable-warns-law-society

International Jazz Day Virtual Global Concert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3421WDpq7eM

Why are TV cameras still huge and expensive? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkTaMyatsTo

Things I noticed this week (24 April 2021)

The people are not an image: a conversation on vernacular video 

https://networkcultures.org/blog/2021/04/07/being-human-in-community-across-distance-1-3/

Japan scraps mascot promoting Fukushima wastewater dump

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/15/japan-scraps-mascot-promoting-fukushima-wastewater-dump

Covid deniers’ event leaves host dead, 12 infected

https://www.newsweek.com/covid-19-deniers-event-leaves-host-dead-12-infected-1583553

Survey on the impact of the pandemic on the cultural learning workforce

https://culturallearningalliance.org.uk/cultural-learning-workforce-survey-april-2021/

40% fall in EU applications to study in the UK

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20210414141653480

Kimberly Chong – Management consulting, the UK’s pandemic response, and the ethical basis of expertise

http://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/2020/12/15/kimberly-chongs-public-lecture/

RCA Vice-Chancellors’ Talk: Peter Gabriel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGgWWU9p638

Oxford malaria vaccine proves highly effective in Burkina Faso trial

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/23/oxford-malaria-vaccine-proves-highly-effective-in-burkina-faso-trial

International launch of the UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Educators and Learners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EuHe2BaYrI

Voting with their money: Brexit and outward investment by UK firms

https://personal.lse.ac.uk/sampsont/OutwardFDI_AP.pdf

Count Binface: Hip to be Mayor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVkilvdfXVc

Niklas Ekstedt's roast chicken with yogurt & salad

https://www.ft.com/content/8fa4f1a6-998f-11ea-8b5b-63f7c5c86bef

Things I noticed this week (17 April 2021)

The U.S.-Mexico border is not a line on the ground, but a network diagram drawn through bodies and databases.

https://placesjournal.org/article/survey-to-surveillance/?cn-reloaded=1

Dodgy Dave - Cameron and the Greensill Scandal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH6cRkRgaFI

Who is Lex Greensill?

https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/lex-greensill-billionaire-banker-tied-to-gam-tim-haywood-20190507

My Brothe: an email funk opera

pic.twitter.com/xttu6fJ31o

Donald Trump is drowning in criminal investigations and legally screwed

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/donald-trump-legally-screwed

Facebook pledged to suspend political donations, then quietly funneled $50,000 to GOP group pushing voter suppression laws

https://popular.info/p/facebook-pledged-to-suspend-political

‘State Fair’ lemonade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YYF9vBLzGU

Things I noticed this week (10 April 2021)

The impact and fallout of the UK Government’s massive cuts to research funding https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000tnqy

The lives of the super rich in Central Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaPLylJk89w

How Trump Steered Supporters into Unwitting Donations

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/us/politics/trump-donations.html

Food: French stuffed tomatoes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzCaY5vy0Sk

How to cook salt and pepper calamari Chinese style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC3mbx8HDMs

Drink: Five modern takes on the Reverse Manhattan

https://www.liquor.com/slideshows/reverse-manhattan/ 

Music: Lokkhi Terra Lockdown Session at Ronnie Scott's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhMIxDJvbeg

Music: Benefits - Flag (thanks to Colin Clark for the link)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTsJjKqTR3Y

Things I noticed this week (3 April 2021)

The story of Casa Larronde on Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu

https://athomeinhollywood.com/2015/09/25/13-million-malibu-tear-down/

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-05-cl-33485-story.html

https://www.cathiemessina.com/Los-Angeles-Real-Estate/sales/0423659

Climate change may have driven the emergence of SARS-CoV-2

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/climate-change-may-have-driven-the-emergence-of-sars-cov-2

In Southampton, a beach house not like the others

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/22/t-magazine/southampton-beach-house-design.html

Joint statement in response to the Sewell report from UCU, EIS, GMB, NEU, NUS, NASUWT

https://www.ucu.org.uk/media/11450/joint_response_to_sewell_report/pdf/jointresponsetosewellreport

Achegos Capital Blowup: Bill Hwang’s Margin Call

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t4lGmNDiHo

David Mach RA Unveils 100 Mile Scottish Border Wall Project

https://www.artlyst.com/news/david-mach-ra-unveils-100-mile-scottish-border-wall-project/

Open Letter on the £120m (49%) shortfall in UKRI ODA funding for 2021 - 22

https://reverseodacuts.wordpress.com

The Coffeelink Spring Sale - 25% off everything, and their coffees are excellent

https://coffeelink.com

Caesar’s legendary salad and restaurant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXtydu5bZAs

Joris Voorn Vinyl DJ Mix - Techno Pt 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9bJ260WTl8

Insight - the Mike Mainieri Quartet (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMGSGzl5Gfs

Things I noticed this week (27 Mar 2021)

Mapping the lost rainforests of England

https://lostrainforestsofengland.org/2021/03/16/mapping-the-lost-rainforests-of-england/

The COVID decade: understanding the long-term societal impacts of Covid-19

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/covid-decade-understanding-the-long-term-societal-impacts-of-covid-19/

Inside the First Inter-City 125

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeD_2-PVVKg

Dolphins off the coastline of South Ayrshire 

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ayrshire/dolphins-put-stunning-show-ayrshire-23762262

The Johnson Dossier: every one of the 200,000+ words that Boris Johnson said during the EU referendum campaign

https://johnsondossier.com

Tackling financial vulnerability in the UK: a data tool for policymakers

https://apps.urban.org/features/uk-financial-vulnerability-index/

A train journey from NYC to Pittsburgh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hOsAZRZCAg

Charlotte de Witte at Kompass Gent 2020 (Lockdown Session)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJPBoKpu50I

Thelonious Monk group live in Amiens 1966

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUHVD36f-z8

Floyd's American Pie - Episode 2, Florida

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VobmEeI93I

Things I noticed this week (20 Mar 2021)

How a British gardening show got people through the pandemic 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/realestate/gardening-monty-don-pandemic.html

Opening of an exhibition of paintings by Tove Jansson and contemporaries at the Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv2yDQB7

Brexit: why has trade with Germany fallen so dramatically? 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/56347096

Rescuing an Off Off Broadway theatre with a storied past

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/realestate/streetscapes-greenwich-village.html

‘Tommy Robinson’ misused donations from far-right supporters, claim former allies

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tommy-robinson-cocaine-donations-prison-b1787467.html

GCRF cuts and broken promises: a first look at ‘Global Britain’

https://www.heatherflowe.com/post/grcf-cuts-and-broken-promises

A walk around Canning Town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLNxGJI4Ic0

‘Alternatives to gentrification’ in France

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/03/frances-alternative-to-gentrification

Super speed fried rice cooling by Shibuya’s most famous fried rice chef, Mr Murakami

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJdENiJVehE

How to stir-fry any vegetable - three basic flavours and recipes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Yu8qOAEYQ

Things I noticed this week (Sat 13 Mar 2021)

Chaos strikes global shipping

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/business/global-shipping.html

New EU ‘right to repair’ laws require technology to last at least a decade

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/eu-right-repair-technology-decade-b1809408.html

Farmers’ assembly on new GM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz_rDzQmI0A

An analysis of how brexit is going, 2 months in

https://beergbrexit.blog/2021/03/07/brexit-2-months-in/

Exodus of foreign workers a threat to UK recovery

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/07/exodus-of-foreign-workers-a-threat-to-uk-recovery

Percy Ingle closing is another blow in working class London’s fight against gentrification

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/percy-ingle-closing-down-bakery-working-class-london-gentrification-453325

The best cheap expresso setup (£250 budget)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1LUkfpTtu0

A really first class Beaujolais for under nine quid

https://www.thewinesociety.com/shop/ProductDetail.aspx?pd=BJ8491

My great PhD student Len Mccaffer’s short film of his project: “A Whirl Around the Gaiety” - all about the heritage of the Gaiety Theatre, Ayr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_4gSamDCWA

Yotto: a very cold DJ set, Lapland, Finland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMOgYpDIf5w

Things I noticed this week (week ending 6 March 2021)

Democrats’ only chance to stop the GOP assault on voting rights

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/03/democrats-need-hr-1-and-new-vra-protect-voting-rights/618171/

'Poor floors’: anger over new plans to segregate tower block residents

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/27/poor-floors-anger-over-new-plans-to-segregate-tower-block-residents

Two thirds of New York City’s arts and culture jobs are gone

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-24/two-thirds-of-new-york-city-s-arts-and-culture-jobs-are-gone

The healing benefits of a Himalayan salt bath

https://roquesoneil.com/blogs/precious-oils-and-minerals

The rich versus the very, very rich

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/mar/02/wentworth-golf-club-reignwood-yan-bin

Dark and plain weird stuff from the world of stock photography

www.twitter.com/darkstockphotos

How to make Swabian Maltaschen (Schwäbisch Maultaschen)

https://monkey47.com/natural-habitat/maultaschen

The Jones Girls: Nights over Egypt (1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw6u9ax2HGE

Zia Mohiuddin Dagar - Dhrupad - Raga Yaman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5trNs7M3MU