Orts #958

from The Washington Post:
the winning images from this year’s Nikon Small World photography contest.
amazing through-the-microscope photos
https://wapo.st/32HJaes
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auto-brewery syndrome: it's a real thing
https://wapo.st/2piflm6

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What the viewer loves in an actor, this feeling of humanity—of course I use it. And that’s very easy to do, because I remain myself. . . . Politics is like bad cinema—people overact, take it too far. When I speak with politicians, I see this in their facial expressions, their eyes, the way they squint. I look at things like a producer. I would often watch a scene on the monitor, and the director and I would yell, ‘Stop, no more, this is unwatchable! No one will believe this.’
     -- Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, in an August 2019 interview with Joshua Yaffa

The New Yorker piece in which the conversation is reported is a long and fascinating profile of Zelensky:
  bit.ly/3430tqx

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How the Zombie Fungus Takes Over Ants’ Bodies to Control Their Minds
http://bit.ly/2N0h9cx
https://nyti.ms/2WrFMC5