Mezcal is to be sipped. It is savored so as to enjoy all the everything that comes with the fermentation of the agave cactus, in all its glorious varieties, into… Read the rest of the article: Yuu Baal: mezcal with notes of green vegetation and a mineral aroma

Carlos Ginzburg first published The Cheese and the Worms [Amazon] in Italian in 1976, and then in English four years later. It has now been published in more that 100… Read the rest of the article: Cheese, Worms and Angels: Menocchio the Heretic

How did Raoul Cantero III, a Harvard-trained lawyer and great-grandson of the US-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencia Batista, and who represented Orlando Bosch, the "unrepentant anti-Castro extremist who was labeled a… Read the rest of the article: Orlando Bosch and anti-Cuban terrorism

So, I don't know about the soul selling – the market conditions are a bit uncertain these days given the predatory nature of capitalism, the ongoing destruction of the planet… Read the rest of the article: Books I'd sell my soul to read again for the first time.

One of the last projects of the late Thích Nhất Hạnh was to offer to the world a new translation of the Heart Sutra: The Other Shore. Completed in 2014,… Read the rest of the article: In "The Other Shore", Thích Nhất Hạnh rewrote the patriarch's interpretation of the Heart Sutra

Nathan Apodaca, aka DoggFace, entered into the global collective imagination in 2020, while skateboarding home from work, sipping on Ocean Spray cranberry juice, and singing Fleetwood Mac's, "Dreams". The timing… Read the rest of the article: TV pick: Reservation Dogs and the wondrous life of Nathan Apodaca

If you like documentaries and the creative and often unexpected use-value of design, check out Rebel Architecture from Al Jazeera: "A six-part documentary series profiling architects who are using design… Read the rest of the article: Architecture as a form of activism and resistance

This article from 2010 concerned the buses that snake through central Copenhagen, which were then covered in larger-than-life boa constrictors crushing the vehicles in its powerful digital grip. The giant… Read the rest of the article: When Copenhagen buses triggered ophidiophobia, the overwhelming fear of snakes

What is capitalism? What is a corporation? What is the relationship between one's desires for consumption, capitalist notions of the individual self, and the power of corporations? The following documentaries… Read the rest of the article: Corporations, capitalism and conceptions of the self

I was first introduced to BLO in the late 1990s by my friend the multi-instrumental gardener named Jake. These were the last days of Napster, when grow-houses were not yet… Read the rest of the article: Nigeria, BLO and the origins of Afro-Psychodelic Funk

What does a multi-millionaire professional football quarterback, a former professional wrestler, a horse farm and a volleyball complex have in common? Well, in Mississippi, the poorest state in the U.S.,… Read the rest of the article: Why are America's elites so needy?

On June 15, 2022, Nick Tobler, owner of Reel Life Aquatics, a reptile and fish store in Crescent Springs, Kentucky, after much fanfare and anxious waiting from TikTok viewers, released a… Read the rest of the article: Eel farm tees and other "conger-inspired merch"

You might consider the Netflix reality show Too Hot to Handle a guilty pleasure, something you wouldn't want to admit to anyone, a prism of cringe entertainment. You might deny… Read the rest of the article: "Too Hot to Handle" is too fun to miss

The Indus river has overflowed to such an extent that a huge in-land lake has formed measuring 62 miles (100 kilometres) across where there used to be homes and agricultural… Read the rest of the article: Floods create new lake in Pakistan

"Do we have a right to be hopeful? With political and ecological fires raging all around, is it irresponsible to imagine a future world radically better than our own? A… Read the rest of the article: The Art of Solidarity: Molly Crabapple and Political Collaboration with Everyday People

Touching the keypad number sign (#), also known as the pound key or the hash symbol, to confirm inputting credit card numbers or Social Security numbers or pin numbers or… Read the rest of the article: "When you are done, press the octothorpe key". What do you call the # glyph?

As we gaze near and über far, either at the 174 Megapixel images of the moon, or through the new telescope named after NASA bureaucrat James Webb, take note of… Read the rest of the article: The Harriet Tubman Space Telescope and the Lavender Scare at NASA: What happens when a telescope zooms in on the politics of Earth?

JFK's addiction to imperialism was a strong as his need for H. Upmann Petit Coronas, the cream of the crop of Cuban Cigars. On February 6, 1962, the day before… Read the rest of the article: The blowback of embargoes, cigars and capitalist wars

Did you grow up learning that the world looked like this? Though not a map of a "flat earth" even as the map was flat, it also not in any… Read the rest of the article: The Decolonial Atlas

Visuals of Earth (@EaRT_VisuaL) will reorient your entire internal map of this planet—or create one anew for you on this rock we share, hurtling through time/space toward disaster and extinction.… Read the rest of the article: Twitter recommendation: Visuals of Earth