Welcome back to Tidings! An exciting Seabird update: this week we're rolling out push notifications on our mobile apps. In our latest release you can enable notifications for likes, hat tips, follows, and announcements. Download it today! On to this week's links... How La Marzocco perfected the espresso machine A stimulating read for coffee lovers: a peek inside the factory where La Marzocco makes its industry-leading espresso machines. Totei | Oliver Franklin-Wallace The rise and rise of...
13 days ago • 2 min read
Welcome back to Tidings readers. All of the links in this newsletter were shared first by the community of users on Seabird. If you're not yet on Seabird, download the app or sign up on the web for the full experience. Are memories transferable — or edible? A chronicle of some very strange experiments on worm memory and the contemporary scientists struggling to get worms to learn in the first place. Quanta | Claire L. Evans Most flags used to be ugly A case for resisting optimization of flag...
20 days ago • 2 min read
Welcome back, Tidings readers. All of the links in this newsletter were shared first by the community of users on Seabird. If you're not yet on Seabird, download the app or sign up on the web for the full experience. On to this week's links... Off ramp On the problem with ramps, the hip spring vegetable that resists cultivation, and what happens when demand skyrockets. Slate | Danny Palumbo Nothing prepared me for Tilly Norwood Profiling a celebrity gets weird when the celebrity is just a...
27 days ago • 2 min read
Welcome back, Tidings readers. A problem I'm happy to have this week: with so many great links being shared to Seabird, it's harder than ever to select a portion of them for this newsletter! Download the app or sign up on the web for the full Seabird experience. Now on to this week's links... The capybaras aren’t all right The internet's new favorite animal, a giant rodent with an unflappably chill demeanor, faces challenges living alongside humans as it moves from nature to Brazilian cities....
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Welcome back to Tidings, our weekly newsletter highlighting some of the most interesting stories shared on Seabird. There's much more on our app and website, where our community shares great links every day. Sign up and check it out! It's a great time to be the giant maker of Route 66 Ahead of the highway's centennial, a profile of Mark Cline, keeping the art of giant fiberglass roadside sculptures alive. Dwell | Zoey Goto Samurai vs. squatters Tagging along with the hired hands using...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Interview: PENCIL 4 GOVERNOR Seabirder Mort sits down with the candidate calling attention to Oregon's education failures, who happens to be a pencil with a lot to say. Mortlandia | Brendan Mortimer The human body's hidden pathways A look at the interstitium, a third circulatory system that scientists are beginning to map, with implications for health and medicine. The New York Times Magazine | Avraham Z. Cooper Consider the sister On David Foster Wallace through the eyes of his older sister,...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
We're rolling out a new Seabird feature this week. Profiles now provide a birds-eye view (sorry) of users' posting tendencies, including frequency of posts, diversity of sources, and favorite publications. Check out a couple examples from the Seabird team here and here. You'll see this live on web now and coming very soon to mobile apps. On to this week's recommended links... The trial of the penis grandma A writer returns to Fairhope, Alabama, to see if the trial of a 62-year-old grandma...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Some exciting Seabird news: This week we made Seabird profiles visible on the web, meaning we can link to them directly and you can view their content without logging in or creating an account. But we hope that you will join the platform. There you'll find links from contributors like Janet and Mort, both of whose latest writing you'll find in this week's newsletter. Or check out the links from prolific poster Michael (aka Snazzyman), who shared this week's lead story, among others. There's...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Our brand new Seabird apps for Android and iOS are available now! These join our recently launched web version of Seabird. Signing up is completely free and no invitation code is needed. Who killed the Florida orange? A visit to Florida, where citrus greening disease is destroying the state's iconic crop and the Florida orange is fast becoming a thing of the past. Slate | Alexander Sammon How the scimitar-horned oryx became a conservation unicorn How an African oryx came back from...
2 months ago • 2 min read