Issue 13: Alice
Welcome to the thirteenth issue of Everything Is Made Up
Happy new year to everyone! I hope you had a good Christmas. This is the thirteenth issue of my newsletter and the first on yet another email newsletter provider! The good news is all the other editions are in one place so you don't need to go to Substack or Tinyletter to read them.
This issue is dedicated to Alice Coltrane as she was next on my list. As always, if you have any suggestions for what you’d like to see more or less of, let me know!
Okay, enough hum and haw. Let’s get it started.
For The Mind
Sampleface (music blog)
Cultrface (culture blog)
LOGiCFACE (STEM blog)
Did you know that nuclear fission was discovered during Christmas?
Shout out to two Cameroonian women—Sabine Adeline Fanta Yadang and Hadidjatou Daïrou—for winning the L’Oréal-Unesco Young Talent Award for Women in Science for their work on the potential of traditional medicinal plants in Cameroon for treating cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer’s. (#)
The “age” old question: How old is your dog in human years? The common answer is “multiply by 7” but there’s a better answer: 16 ln(dog’s age) + 31 (#)
Playrface (sports blog)
London Falcons is soccer club aimed at – but not exclusively limited to – gay and bisexual men in London and they have SEGA as a sponsor, with the company’s logo in rainbow on the shirt. I pray they get a friendly with Arsenal. (#)
It’s Nice That profiled Craig Stronach’s creative project with the England Lionesses who played in the 1971 Women’s World Cup in Mexico, better known as the Lost Lionesses. (#)
The Conversation on a lack of majority black-owned basketball franchises
Distant Arcade (gaming blog)
BigRig Creates made a Fuecoco rice cooker and it looks awesome
Fancy playing Final Fantasy VII on the Sega Saturn? A modder called Frogbull got the Square Enix classic running on Mednafen’s Saturn Emulator which is honestly awesome. (#)
Strictly Better MtG on the life changing experience of Pokémon TCG
For The Ears
It's still technically Christmas so here's an album I've had on loop over the last few weeks: Ahwlee – Xist
Oh, and check out my latest album, Boas Festas 2. It's mean the world if you'd give it a listen and pay what you want if you like it (it's free if you don't want to pay)
For The Eyes
I watched a lot of Christmas movies over this festive period but I managed to find a bad Hallmark film about a woman who wants to make Belgian chocolate and gets taught by an American chocolatier who lives there (no seriously, it's genuinely bad). Watch it and see if you agree.
Well, I’m gonna make like a jet and zoom. Thanks for reading and join me next time for more of the same. Any comments or suggestions, get in touch! And if you'd like to help out with my content creation endeavours, check out my Patreon.