THIS ARTICLE IS ADAPTED FROM THE MARCH 26, 2022, EDITION OF GASTRO OBSCURA’S FAVORITE THINGS NEWSLETTER. YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE. You are the one who soaks the malt in a jar,The waves rise, the waves fall.Ninkasi, you are the one who soaks the malt in a jar,The waves rise, the waves fall. This stanza, written down on a piece of clay in 1800 BC, is part of a curious hymn: part song, part recipe. Ninkasi was the Sumerian……
The German Stroller Museum is located in Schloss Moritzburg in Zeitz. Construction of the baroque castle started in 1675 and took 21 years. The owner, Duke Moritz von Sachsen-Zeitz died only three years later and left the castle to his son Moritz Wilhelm. The only surviving child of Moritz Wilhelm was a girl and as such not entitled to inheritance. So the castle, after it was lived in for only 40 years, went back into possession of the house……
Today, so far as anyone knows, there are just two surviving issues of The Musical Messenger. It was and is a groundbreaking publication that ran from 1886 to 1891—and by all accounts the very first Black music magazine. All that stands between remembering and forgetting are just those two issues in the Library of Congress, one four pages, the other three. Whole movements, plans, and ideas rest on those seven pages from 1889. History isn’t a straight line, but……
Sorbie Tower is the ancient seat of clan Hannay, a fortified tower house that dates back to the late 16th century. The tower is a five-story building, with a grand hall on the first floor and cellars and a kitchen on the ground level. It was built for Alexander Hannay of Sorbie, possibly in the 1570s, next to an unusual square 12th-century motte, on a raised mound of land protected by a surrounding marsh. In 1677, the tower house was……
Located in the former house of Fernando Pessoa, one of Portugal’s most significant 20th-century literary figures, this museum is dedicated to his life work and shows some artifacts that belonged to him. Fernando Pessoa was born on June 13, 1888, in Lisbon. His father died when he was young and later, in 1896, he moved to Durban, South Africa, with his mother. There he studied at an Irish convent, where he learned English as well as other languages. Pessoa……
Am abundance of exotic flowers from all over the world is concentrated in one small location, which is immaculately kept. The garden offers a serene, colorful, and peaceful environment with plants. The nursery and garden are located in the hills of lower Les Cannelles and was opened in 2008 by Marc Marengo, Seychelles’s former ambassador to the United Nations….
Olfactory Art Keller is completely unique, a space entirely dedicated to scent. Each show focuses on smell in some way. It is a pretty compact gallery that sits between dumpling houses and fish markets in Chinatown. You can usually find the gallery’s owner Andreas Keller in the back surrounded by grass and his odor library, mixing something fascinating. Andreas is an academic who investigates different aspects of olfactory perception and has taught smell to philosophy. Dedicated to exploring smells himself,……
The Aztec Ruins are exceptionally convenient to visitors as it’s within the city limits of Aztec. Aztec Ruins National Monument was designated a World Heritage site in 1987 as part of Chaco Culture World Heritage site because it preserves important Pueblo architectural and engineering achievements. Aztec Ruins was built as a public ceremonial, economic, and political center around 1100 and remained occupied by the ancestral Pueblo people until 1300. You will walk through the rooms and kivas built by……
In the 1980s, during the so-called Movida Madrileña, a series of innovative countercultural movements from places like London or New York began to spread throughout Madrid and other places in Spain. This movement influenced the musical world through New Wave, but was also reflected in fashion, cinema, and art. In the outlying neighborhoods of Madrid, this movement came with the spontaneous emergence of doodles, graffiti, or signatures on the city’s walls and fences. A style that created a school……
MIT Admissions announced today that it will reinstate its requirement that applicants submit scores from an SAT or ACT exam. The Institute suspended its longstanding requirement in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic that prevented most high schoolers from safely taking the exams. However, with the advent of safe, effective pediatric vaccination, the expansion of the free in-school SAT (where most students now take the test), and the introduction of the digital SAT, most prospective students can……
The standing stones were positioned between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago. There were originally three standing stones at Drumtroddan aligned northeast to southwest, but two have now fallen. The stone closest to the entrance fell sometime in 2011, after a period where it was observed to be leaning significantly. Looking at the way it tapered towards the bottom it is surprising that it did not snap under its own weight before it fell. The stones at either end of……
Surveillance cameras have an identity problem, fueled by an inherent tension between utility and privacy. As these powerful little devices have cropped up seemingly everywhere, the use of machine learning tools has automated video content analysis at a massive scale — but with increasing mass surveillance, there are currently no legally enforceable rules to limit privacy invasions. Security cameras can do a lot — they’ve become smarter and supremely more competent than their ghosts of grainy pictures past, the……
This piece was originally published in Undark and appears here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. On a sunny November morning, Anthony Colegrove parked his work truck on the side of a road in northern California’s Klamath Mountains and began creating a mobile laboratory. He pulled down the truck’s tailgate, popped open a tackle box filled with syringes and other supplies, and pulled out a clipboard. Meanwhile, a weasel-like animal called a fisher waited nearby, making glottal noises……
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs were supposed to be quiet during free agency, given the perennial AFC West champions had most of their big names tied up in long-term contracts and they already were bumping up against the salary cap. Brett Veach had other ideas. The uber-aggressive Chiefs general manager instead made a splash by signing former Texans safety Justin Reid and former Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster, then turned the NFL on its head…
If you ever crossed Ocean Parkway at any intersection between Foster Ave and Ave C in Brooklyn, New York, you probably noticed different fish plaques under your feet. These are the most recent additions to Ocean Parkway Malls and can be found at nine intersections. These unique art pieces feature ocean creatures whose names for the most part coordinate with the letters of the cross-streets: Avenue C clam, Ditmas Ave dolphin, and 18th Avenue anchovies, just to name a few. ……
