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Food Podcasts 1.0: These Radio Pioneers Had It Down 90 Years Ago

From the 1920s on, women broadcasters offered recipes, life hacks and insights for the farmer's wife. Like podcasts, their shows were often personal, off-the-cuff and right from the kitchen table.
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Did you see this @npr story featuring radio broadcaster Evelyn Birkby? Want to know more? You’re in luck–The Evelyn Birkby Collection of Radio Homemaker Materials is here at the Iowa Women’s Archives! You can read Evelyn’s newspaper column “Up a Country Lane” in the Iowa Digital Library.

The collection includes everything from scrapbooks and photographs to audio recordings of radio broadcasts and some particularly tempting recipes. Radio cake, anyone?

–Laurel

Birkby Collection of Radio Homemakers, Iowa Women’s Archives, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City.

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Bellerby & Co. Globemakers

After a two year search for a globe for my father’s 80th birthday present I was faced with a choice of a modern political globe (albeit frequently available with a generous dose of sepia colouring), very fragile expensive antique models, which you can’t really use on a daily basis or trying to make my own.

So the original plan, hatched in a pub in Kings Cross was to make just two, one for Dad, one for me. It would probably take three, maybe four months and cost a few thousand pounds. After all how difficult can it be to make a ball and put a map on it? My last venture was setting up and managing a place called Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, which within a year of opening had become one of the most interesting venues in London turning over more than £100,000 per week, so perhaps I was a little over confident. Blatantly obsessed with spheres either way! 

 Now a small team of trained globemakers create high quality, hand made globes that Bellerby & Co. has come to be recognised for. From the stand, to the artwork, the painting and map-making, each piece is expertly crafted using traditional and modern globemaking techniques, and is lovingly produced in our North London studio; each piece is an individual model of style and grandeur and the larger globes are works of art in their own right.The collection is ever increasing, with the popular mini desk globe our favourite.

Images and text by Bellerby & Co. Globemakers

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chaosophia218: “Vacuum Energy Driving Our Universe. The Vacuum of Space Connects us All. Atoms consist of 99.9999999% empty Space. That means everything from the chair you’re sitting on, the computer you’re staring at, even You, are only 000000001%...
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Vacuum Energy Driving Our Universe.

The Vacuum of Space Connects us All. Atoms consist of 99.9999999% empty Space. That means everything from the chair you’re sitting on, the computer you’re staring at, even You, are only 000000001% there. Even the Planck Length is simply a Renormalization of the Infinitely dense Vacuum of Space. As such, Matter does not define Space, Space defines Matter. Matter is just a Perceptual division of the Vacuum itself. However, Matter does inform Space. Reality Creates Us. The Vacuum Creates Us, but we inform the Vacuum. We are Interacting with the Structure of the Vacuum over and over again in a Fundamental way. All the electrons and positrons in the atoms that make up our Bodies are constantly interacting with the Vacuum like a game of hide-and-seek: appearing and disappearing, over and over again. We are informing the Universe about our unique point of view of the Structure of Reality. We are recursive, self-similar Structures of Consciousness at arbitrarily small scales that represent the Universe as a Whole; like a wave represents the ocean, or a water-drop represents the wave.