Friday Ephemera (839)
The new guy looks pretty chill. || Ostrich stomach contents, 1930. (h/t, Things) || In search of peanut butter. || It was that heavy beer. || “Like a belt full of pre-filled condoms.” || How to throw a house party, 1966. || I expect you to start body popping on the count of three. || Interactive duckpond, into which you can throw peas. Headphones recommended. || Full thrust. || Fun times. || Riker time. || Regarding travel, enrichment and states of denial. || “Fluid beef,” dispensed from a lamp post, 1897. || Learning curve. || Learning curve 2. || Place your bets. || Cutting hair. || Cartwheeling snakes. || It was the custom in those days. (h/t, Dicentra) || More enrichment underway. || How well do immigrants do? A handy database. || Dr Fukushi Masaichi collected human skin. || It’s modernity, baby.
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For those unfamiliar with the concept of tiffin.
Well it does look like it’s upside down. Which would likely cause a surgeon general’s warning these days.
With that image in mind, whereas they once stood on the shoulders of giants like John Snow and Walter Reed, let us see what is up in the ever more self beclowning world of public health…
First up at the plate, “weight stigma and fatphobia in public health.” The heaping mounds of tiffin fight fatphobia.
Because of course it is. Yes, eugenics, Fettfeindlichkeit in the original manuals.
Next at bat, torn from the pages of Racism Today™, “Sleep Health Equity”.
Outside of academic woo rarely discussed, but a gold mine for future grants and sinecures, no doubt. Next up, inherent racism of flat feet.