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• Proof That Not All War Footage is Real
• Why We Drink Tea Instead of Eating It
• Musician Plays a Piano from Bed Using Finger Strings
• Yellowstone National Park Did Not Please Sitting Bull

Proof That Not All War Footage is Real Posted: 03 Mar 2022 06:11 PM PST Spot the issue with some of this "footage" of the fighting in #Ukraine shown on an Israeli channel pic.twitter.com/77XE4AZ8dC — Michael A. Horowitz (@michaelh992) March 3, 2022 We have been warned over and over not to believe everything we see, especially when news is dominated by footage from social media, which is the case in the war in Ukraine. There are plenty of iPhone videos of the devastation in Ukraine making their way to network newscasts. See if you can spot the clue that this video shown on an Israeli TV news broadcast might not be real. Yes, that's a TIE fighter, wrecked on the side of the road. If you look closely, you'll see a couple of stormtroopers standing by. The TV station has owned up to the error. Here's a machine translation. The dis-information surrounding the war also produces embarrassing moments and near-comic errors: Sink from the movie "Star Wars" entered News 13 news from Ukraine. The video was broadcast in the main edition and in the channel's current affairs programs. The footage was from a 2014 viral video, made to look like those ubiquitous Russian dash cam videos that show something strange happening along the side of the road. This example appears to be deliberate trolling, but we don't know if it was just for fun, or meant to be a warning about disinformation campaigns. The lesson is, don't pass along something unless you've checked it out thoroughly, and that goes double if you're a news broadcaster. -via Fark

Why We Drink Tea Instead of Eating It Posted: 03 Mar 2022 02:15 PM PST People in Asia have been enjoying the effects of caffeine from tea for thousands of years. For most of that time, they ate it as greens or added it to soup and other dishes. Buddhist monks, seeking simpler fare, brewed tea leaves to drink. The switch from tea as a food to treat as a drink was popularized in the 8th century by an entertainer named Lu Yu. Lu was an orphan raised in a Buddhist monastery, where he was used to tea as a drink. He ran away as a young teenager and "joined the circus," so to speak, by becoming a comedy performer. His talents impressed a governor who took Lu in and helped him get an education. He became influential and well-connected, but never liked food made with tea. It wasn't the tea he disliked, but all the other ingredients. He fervently believed tea was an elixir and should be enjoyed in its purest form. Read how he influenced China to switch to drinking tea instead of eating it at Atlas Obscura. While tea went global as a drink, there are still foods that use tea leaves as an ingredient, and you'll find a recipe at the same link.

Musician Plays a Piano from Bed Using Finger Strings Posted: 03 Mar 2022 12:22 PM PST YouTube member Name Undecided (which is a decidedly good name) offers a wide variety of piano tunes, some of which are played with his fingers on the keys. Others involve Nerf guns or a badminton racket. Sometimes, although he wants to play with his fingers on the keys, the task just requires too much effort because his piano is all the way on the other side of the room. To make the task easier, he taped strings from the keys to plastic rings, which permits him to play effectively while, as he calls it, he is "socially distancing" from his piano. -via Laughing Squid

Yellowstone National Park Did Not Please Sitting Bull Posted: 03 Mar 2022 09:40 AM PST In 1872, the Yellowstone Act created the world's first national park. This act has been celebrated as a great stepping stone to conserving the natural beauty of the US. When considering the act, Congress discussed the impact such a large federal acquisition would have on white settlers in the area. John Taffe of Nebraska brought up the question of how it would impact the Sioux reservation. The other legislators just shrugged the question off. They didn't consider Native Americans to be any impediment to taking the land. Henry Dawes of Massachusetts replied, “The Indians can no more live [in Yellowstone],” he told Taffe, “than they can upon the precipitous sides of the Yosemite valley.” To Dawes and almost all of his fellow legislators, potential Lakota land claims and the long-standing use of Yellowstone as a thoroughfare by Shoshone, Bannock, Crow, Flathead and Nez Perce peoples did not matter. That didn't sit right with Sitting Bull (Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake), the prominent leader of the Lakota and advocate for their allied nations who lived in the Western states. They were already concerned with the building of the Northern Pacific railroad through their land, bringing a rush of gold miners and settlers and endangering the buffalo herds they depended on. The tensions between the US and the Lakota over rights to the land sparked a five-year war which included the Battle of Little Big Horn. The Native American objections to Yellowstone National Park have been mostly excluded from American history, but 150 years later, the National Park Service plans to include exhibits at the park to explain how the birth of the park shaped Lakota history. Read the story at Smithsonian.

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