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Quick Links for March 2016

March 31
Five US women soccer players filed a complaint against US Soccer about wage discrimination
A look at some of Zaha Hadid's best buildings
Zaha Hadid, Groundbreaking Architect, Dies at 65
From NY Times Cooking: Classic Dishes You Should Master (If You Haven't Already)
Huh, the website for the movie Contact is still up. via @ressler
March 30
Plane lands on moving truck. This is the inverse of the plane-on-a-treadmill thing.
March 29
All 57 Elvis Presley Albums Ranked, From Worst to Best (he mostly gets younger as you scroll down)
Obscura Day 2016 is coming up w/ events all over the world
This is great: a coffee table book of photos from the Apollo missions
Yeah, this is pretty much what I thought of The Revenant
"I paid to have my daughter kidnapped." What the hell?!
A Carson/Letterman/Leno/Shandling Photo That Closes The Book On A Late-Night Era
A ranking of 109 superhero movies. Spider-Man 2 at #3?!! No, no, no.
March 28
Enjoyed this 50 Signs of Hope for Culture in 2016 piece; incl. Grimes, Broad City, Black Panther, Hamilton
March 25
The 100 funniest jokes in the history of Twitter
March 24
The Enduring Mystery Of 'Jawn', Philadelphia's All-Purpose Noun
The story behind GM's all-female design team from the 1950s
Is the Deepwater Horizon movie supposed to make us feel good about one of the largest oil spills ever? Ick.
Reminder: the NFL is a terrible organization. More on their concussion "research".
Food52's clever new app, (Not)Recipes, is like an Instagram for spontaneous not-quite-recipes
"The butthole is one of the finest innovations in the past 540 million years of animal evolution"
March 23
Picasso Inc. "If Picasso were alive today, he would be one of the 10 wealthiest men in the world."
March 22
Ending tipping in restaurants is a good start, but it's not the end of all problems
The DC bald eagle nest cam is the best new show of the spring TV season
March 21
This Palm Springs house that's been untouched since it was built in 1969 is something else
March 20
Nice photoessay about Cuba "on the edge of change"
The Force Awakens: toys/discs/digital/TV paid for the movie; the box office proceeds are all profit for Disney
March 17
The literary fiction drinking game; drink if "a character apologizes for the story's conceit"
March 16
"What [Neil deGrasse Tyson] actually does is make the universe boring, tell people things that they already know..."
An oral history of the 1995-1996 Chicago Bulls
Five ways the CRISPR gene editing technique is revolutionizing molecular biology research
March 15
The Custer wolf is dead. He was the master criminal of the animal world.
I want to like this list of fourth wall breakers in movies, but the absence of Billy Ray Valentine is distressing
Steven Spielberg is making a fifth Indiana Jones movie w/ Harrison Ford. What, Chris Pratt said no?
Radiohead is touring and playing festivals this summer
March 14
25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going
March 11
Officer Clemmons talks about what Mr. Rogers meant to him
Just The Good Stuff From Thursday's Republican Debate
March 10
A collection of documentaries about the making of feature films (Blade Runner, Apocalypse Now, Jaws, etc.)
March 9
The healthful contemporary Japanese diet is a relatively recent invention
The film directors formerly known as Larry and Andy Wachowski are now Lana and Lilly Wachowski
March 8
From former NYC Transportation Commish Janette Sadik-Khan: The Bike Wars Are Over, and the Bikes Won
LOL & NSFW: 5 Footnotes from Infinite Jest That'll Get Him Rock Hard
March 7
From Motherboard, a fictional look at the aftermath of a 9.0 earthquake hitting the Pacific Northwest
The Blu-ray of Star Wars: The Force Awakens is out in April; it'll have a full-length making of and deleted scenes
An oral history of The Golden Girls
March 3
If the election goes wrong for you in November, here's how to move to Canada
March 2
February 2016 was just ridiculously warm
Teens who know that Einstein and Curie struggled do better in science
The USPS is floating the idea of a virtual PO Box, a flexible address you can update to any physical address
Study: being a good empathetic parent will physically weaken your immune system
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