The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning, narrated by Robert Hardy

Wikipedia

Pied Pipers was originally published in The Hairpin on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

The Creeping Garden “is now spreading its tendrils across Canada and the US through to December.” Possibly you have already seen it.

“why I’m interested in the slime mould” was originally published in The Hairpin on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

By raising our disease-free, antibiotic-free salmon away from the ocean, we eliminate the risk of escapes impacting native fish populations AND the risk of pollutants or contaminants harming marine ecosystems.

I’ve never wanted to steal fish and throw them into the ocean before, but now that they say it can’t be done… They even give you a little map.

[FDA via Newser]

Dream Fish was originally published in The Hairpin on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

1. “Lost at sea.”

2. Weeks later, just in case…

[delete delete]

Still no!

“in fact, it was exacerbating their dehydration” was originally published in The Hairpin on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

If you’d rather sponsor a turkey than eat one this Thanksgiving (or both, I guess), here are this year’s “stars” from Farm Sanctuary’s Adopt a Turkey Project. I think I like Tibbott. And I didn’t realize how much they liked grapes! Help these turkeys with their grape addictions!

Grape Fiends was originally published in The Hairpin on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Today I would like to make these fancy parmesan-crusted toasts featured earlier this year on Food52 but linked to recently by The Week [via its Tumblr].

Parmesan Bread was originally published in The Hairpin on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Behold the results of the 23rd annual National Gingerbread House Competition, held on Monday in Asheville, North Carolina [via NYTNow]. The display opens to the public starting today (and closes Jan. 3), although there’s also a gingerbread hotline, (800) 413–5778, which I called and learned that people not staying at the resort are invited to view the houses starting Sunday afternoon.

Plus, here’s a brief history of gingerbread, with recipes.

Related: is anyone else watching “The Great British Baking Show”? What a great show! Season one streaming now on Netflix!

The Great Gingerbread Baking Contest was originally published in The Hairpin on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

The Leonid meteor shower, one of the most celebrated of the year’s annual “shooting star” displays, will peak overnight tonight (Nov. 17) and early Wednesday morning.

You can also watch it online.

Hopefully a more robust internet experience here at the hairpin at some point.

Meteor Shower Tonight was originally published in The Hairpin on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

• In Italian popular culture, Friday the 17th (and not the 13th) is considered a day of bad luck. The origin of this belief could be traced in the writing of number 17, in Roman numerals: XVII. By shuffling the digits of the number one can easily get the word VIXI (“I have lived”, implying death in the present), an omen of bad luck.
• According to the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina, an estimated 17 to 21 million people in the United States are affected by a fear of this day, making it the most feared day and date in history. Some people are so paralyzed by fear that they avoid their normal routines in doing business, taking flights or even getting out of bed. “It’s been estimated that [US]$800 or $900 million is lost in business on this day.”
• The fear of the number 13 has been given a scientific name: “triskaidekaphobia”; and on analogy to this the fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskevidekatriaphobia, from the Greek words Paraskeví (Παρασκευή, meaning “Friday”), and dekatreís (δεκατρείς, meaning “thirteen”).

And more…

The first Google result for “vixi,” however, is a link to this company’s promotional video about its “interactive entertainment platform” involving sports :-o … and it seems that everyone who uses it is never heard from again. Just kidding; it looks like a useful tool! Go Pats!

Excerpts From Wikipedia’s “Friday the 13th” Page was originally published in The Hairpin on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.