as newspapers today dont tend to hire children, a modern day Tintin would run a clickbait YouTube channel, except the clickbait is 100% real every single time
he starts off as an irritating conservative pundit at 14, meets Chang then leaves the think tank paying him and launches his own independent channel and blows up shortly after. Chang helps with video editing and managing his socials and they often chat on video calls between adventures. Haddock, his foster dad, has absolutely no knowledge of his earlier videos.
i recently learned that dromedaries and bactrian camels can hybridize and usually produce fertile offspring, and the hybrid camels usually have a singular hump that's really big
The National Ethnic Affairs Commission of China recently published their 2024 guidelines for ethnology research grant applications. Fascinating stuff:
Uphold the correct conception of Chinese ethnic history, and reject schools of thought including "Inner Asia History", "New Qing History", "Conquest Dynasty", and "Zomia", and incorrect conceptions of history such as "Austronesian languages"
Break the western theory of "it's universal law to evolve from empires to nation states" ... break the western theory of "diversity not integration" and "integration equals ethnic assimilation", and see "the order of China" in the "disorder of the west"
It's honestly impressive that they know all this stuff
The rare knitted silks of the seventeenth have never been fully explained, but were probably informal wear. Today they could be purposeful as skiwear or underwear, a light sweater, or a chic bodice. Decorated to be seen, these knits are not represented in painting of the period, yet their role was clearly as a comfortable year-round clothing more consequential than any season's novelty.
old sword and sorcery stories are always like, “he crushed her body to his” and i love that. was “crushed” really the most romantic word you could come up with, robert? look what you did to this poor maiden. you crushed her