ABC News [Australia]
23 September 2019
Police investigate reports of
needles found in strawberries in Melbourne
Victorian police have confirmed they are investigating
two separate reports of strawberries being found with needles inside them in
Melbourne's northern suburbs. […]
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The Atlantic
24 September 2019
The Unkillable Myth of Period Syncing
[…] TV and movies
certainly help maintain the popularity of the period-syncing myth. But to some
extent it survives because so many people want it to be true. No matter how
inaccurate the myth of period syncing may be, the idea that women’s bodies can
fall into collective rhythms carries a certain mysterious, otherworldly appeal
and, lending the myth more inertia, gives women a way to feel connection,
empathy, and collective empowerment with other women. […]
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Frank M. Young, Elmo:
An American Experiment by Cecil Jensen, Volume One (Labor of Love
Publications, 2019), 168. Jensen’s syndicated Elmo comic strip for 21 May 1948 is a variant on the traditional
tale of a man who spreads a rumor about buried treasure so that his garden ends
up being tilled by treasure hunters.
The same ploy applied to foxholes. Bill Mauldin, Willie & Joe: The War Years, vol. 1
(Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2008), p. 226. “Star Spangled Banter,” 45th Division News, 9 February 1943.
Detail from a cartoon made up of three contiguous panels. “I gotta hand it to ya,
Joe. I didn’t think that buried treasure rumor would work.”
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