The Hemingway Hamburger, Michael J. Fox, Ants as Army Medics, etc.
In which I share a few interesting links before the holiday.
🍔 I am good, but maybe you need Hemingway’s favorite burger recipe. Might be too complicated, but I think Ron Swanson would approve.
☕️ Not really a coffee drinker myself, but if it helped The Union win the war…
🍲 Wells Fargo ordered 75 burrito bowls from 8 Chipotles. Here's what they found. “Some locations served bowls that weighed about 33% more than other locations, the firm said, noting that they were the exact same order.”
🍿 How was popcorn discovered? “An archaeologist on its likely appeal for people in the Americas millennia ago.”
⏰ What would happen if we abolished time zones altogether? I think daylight savings time should absolutely be abolished, but it seems like this overkill. You might be smarter than me, though, so if you have thoughts I’d love to hear them.
🐜 Ants perform limb amputations on injured comrades to save their lives. “These ants were observed treating injured limbs of nest-mates either by cleaning the wound using their mouthparts or by amputation through biting off the damaged limb. The choice of care depended on the injury's location. When it was further up the leg, they always amputated.”
📖 “Love was a room that appeared when you stepped into it.” If you’re looking for more reading this holiday weekend, I just finished, and would recommend Kaveh’s Akbar’s novel Martyr!. Lots of prose stuck with me, but I love this take on grief:
“It seems very American to expect grief to change something. Like a token you cash in. A formula. Grieve x amount, receive y amount of comfort. Work a day in the grief mines and get paid in tickets to the company store.”
🤣 I haven’t seen the new film Thelma, but I have watched its star June Squibb read lines from famous action films five times now.
🥺 Michael J. Fox joined Coldplay this past Saturday at Glasbury, and it’s about the most wonderful thing I can imagine at the moment.
🇺🇸 Happy 4th. Hope you have a wonderful holiday weekend, and always remember, like Fox, forever keep the Hoping Machine running.
Love,
Luke
