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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 9/2/2025: Salmagundi Vol. VI [1]
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Date: 2025-09-02
Abbot Handerson Thayer: Landscape at Fontainebleau Forest (1876)
Good evening, Kibitzers!
I’m still enjoying lovely mild weather here, cool enough overnight to open the windows (i.e. gets down into the 50s). Tomorrow is the last Wednesday of my cut flowers CSA, and the main CSA only has another month to go. That makes sense, because this farm, although they do land-office business in the spring and summer, pulls out all the stops for fall. They had MILES of pumpkins last year, in more colors and shapes than I’ve ever seen; pretty sure they have a corn maze and the whole nine yards. I will obviously still be going there in October, because I freakin’ love fall and have barely restrained myself from buying some mums in August. But I won’t have to go on Wednesdays AND I will not have to accept any more beets.
It’s been a while since I posted one of these random video assortments, and I’m up to my eyebrows in random videos so it’s time for some to appear here.
Dr. Heather Cox Richardson marks the 105th anniversary of the 19th Amendment by reviewing the history of women’s suffrage in the US. From her Journey to American Democracy series. [3:16]
A segment on the CBS Evening News visits Yellowstone's historic Old Faithful Inn, the first of the great national park lodges. [2:56]
This is a performance at this year’s Barbershop Harmony Society Quartet Quarterfinals in July. The quartet is Primer, and they are Swedish. Nonetheless, their lead has done an excellent job capturing King George III as portrayed in Hamilton. You might not think You’ll Be Back lends itself to a barbershop arrangement, but you’d be surprised what they can do. [4:14]
Remember when you took high school chemistry and you learned that a “mole” is a unit of measurement that represents a count of atoms or molecules (specifically, 6.02214076 × 10²³ of them)? So, Randall Munroe of the xkcd comic fielded a question on his What If channel: What if you had a mole of moles? [4:34]
TIME Magazine is producing a “100 Photographs” video series based on iconic images they’ve published. From it comes this behind-the-scenes look at the famous 1932 photo of workmen sitting on a skyscraper beam to eat lunch. If seeing heights bothers you, this might not be the video for you, because it gets more intense than the thumbnail. [5:34]
In April in this space, we met Dustin Ballard, proprietor of the YouTube channel There, I Ruined It, a cheerful effort to wreck popular songs be re-imagining them in a different and not at all appropriate musical style. He has recently given a thoughtful TED talk about the use of AI in music, by him and others. [11:19]
BBC News brings us the story of the River Aller in Somerset, UK. The river had been artificially straightened, and the National Trust decided to take a radical approach to address the unhappy environmental impacts. [3:38]
Apparently, video of all sorts of wild animals jumping on backyard trampolines has been going viral lately. Producer Erica from The Dodo gently shares that they are all fake and points out how we can tell they’re AI. (The fake bunnies sure are cute, though...) [2:40]
America’s Test Kitchen cook Christie Morrison shows how to make a tomato galette out of lovely end-of-summer fresh tomatoes without having the pastry become a soggy mess. [11:35]
From MinuteEarth, a discussion of the value of collaborating across very different disciplines to solve scientific problems, with specific reference to NASA’s work with expert weavers to build the core rope memory needed to fit it into Apollo spacecraft. (Yes, it went exactly the way you think. Here is much more than you want to know about core rope memory, but you can scroll down and see some pictures of the women toiling away in eeff’s home town.) [3:57]
I was looking around for some music to close with, and I found this encore from a live CSN performance from 2012. When it comes time for an instrumental break in the song, Stephen Stills adds a little something extra.
Crosby Stills & Nash: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (Performing Arts Center, San Luis Obispo, CA, April 2012, from DVD CSN 2012.) [9:43]
Only two months until Election Day 2025, when we have some important races — but even less time until early voting opens in some races!
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