The Faroe Islands are in my "someday" category of places to visit. A bit of a nitpick though. The text says Lítla Dímun sheep "were the descendants of the animals brought to the area during the Neolithic era." The phrase 'the area' refers to Europe. The earliest humans on the island were around 400 AD, which is well after the neolithic. I was confused for a moment trying to figure out how neolithic peoples brought sheep to Lítla Dímun.
As a Miami boy I expected Cuban-style black beans something like the image from chrsimona flamigni/Getty that Mother Jones uses, and was thrown for a loop by the Mexican style one from Badagnani that Neatorama uses. Comparing recipes, I think the Badagnani image here is a closer fit to the MoJo recipe than the flamigni image MoJo themselves use!
Did the people on Easter Island have variable density concrete? More to the point, I thought there were many possible explanations of how those statues could be moved - the problem is finding the archeological evidence to support a specific approach, or indicate some other alternative.
Certainly advertisers used a fear of offending odors to sell product as Listerine infamously did in the 1920s with "chronic halitosis". However, it can be easy to look at history through rose colored glasses. Complaints about people being offended too much are not new to this 'woke' generation and it seems like a needless jab to single them out. Bloom County joked about 'offensensitivity' in the 1980s. Or from 1882, yes, a century earlier in "The Royal Path of Life: Or, Aims and Aids to Success and Happiness" we can read the following advice:
"Just let a young wife remember that her husband necessarily is under a certain amount of bondage all day ; that his interests compel him to look pleasant under all circumstances, to offend none, to say no hasty word, and she will see that when he reaches his own fireside he wants, most of all, to have this strain removed, to be at ease ; but this he cannot be if he is continually afraid of wounding his wife's sensibilities by forgetting some outward and visible token of his affection for her."
That's some fear of giving offense! I can't believe all other fears of offending disappeared by the 1940s, leaving only body odor.
I don't think the conclusion here is correct. Gravitational lensing has been confirmed many times since 1979 and the Twin Quasar. The paper's abstract, at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab0aeb/meta , even says "This is the second case known of an Einstein cross of an LBG", that is, "a Lyman-break galaxy (LBG), not a quasi-stellar object as is usually the case".
I graduated from HS in Miami in 1988, so not many years after you. I don't think "the American school system" you mentioned changed that much in just a few years.
I didn't get the sense that my public high school had a "one-size-fits-all" policy. Some students were there for vocational training, others had college plans. Some took more science/math course, or more music courses, or more humanities courses. The state required certain education to graduate, like "at least the second semester of a foreign language", so I can see how that might be a 'one size', though my school offered Spanish, Italian, German, and Latin - perhaps others too. The state required a certain number of English courses, which my school offered in different varieties (eg, AP, college prep, and normal).
"Just let a young wife remember that her husband necessarily is under a certain amount of bondage all day ; that his interests compel him to look pleasant under all circumstances, to offend none, to say no hasty word, and she will see that when he reaches his own fireside he wants, most of all, to have this strain removed, to be at ease ; but this he cannot be if he is continually afraid of wounding his wife's sensibilities by forgetting some outward and visible token of his affection for her."
That's some fear of giving offense! I can't believe all other fears of offending disappeared by the 1940s, leaving only body odor.