kate_nepveu | Saturday links are very backlogged (Reply)

What with the leadup to taking a week off work, the cruise with limited Internet, and the kids going back to school, I have quite the backlog.

I lost hours watching videos of Simone Biles doing a triple double on the floor exercise and a double-double beam dismount, because the human body is capable of amazing things. Here's a Slate article and a Twitter thread.
Something I did not know: The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts, at the Washington Post.
At Atlas Obscura, What the Heck Is Crab Rangoon Anyway?, subtitled "How a fusion of at least four cuisines created a beloved and misunderstood dish."
Jan Hakon Erichsen (janerichsen) is a "visual artist and balloon destroyer"; he has compilations at his YouTube channel, such as this two-minute one that I find just very satisfying.
Via Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Hollywood Reporter article criticizing Bruce Lee's portrayal in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, I discovered that the two of them were in a movie together called Game of Death, and their ten-minute fight scene is available on YouTube. It is truly something to behold.
I'm posting this just in time for the season finale tomorrow night, but Discovery has a documentary show called Serengeti that is narrated by Lupita Nyong'o.
Vox on the history and appeal of escape rooms.
Good Eats is back; here's an interview about the filmmaking behind the show, then and now.
Scathing farewell article from Deadspin's editor-in-chief on how

A metastasizing swath of media is controlled by private-equity vultures and capricious billionaires and other people who genuinely believe that they are rich because they are smart and that they are smart because they are rich, and that anyone less rich is by definition less smart. They know what they know, and they don’t need to know anything else.
A positive review of the styling service Stitch Fix by a wheelchair user.
A quite interesting article at Strange Horizons by Victoria Chen, age 18, called “A lag is happening” : A disconnect between YA writers and the readers the books are written for.
The AV Club's Home Video Hell series asks, How can you not check out a movie called The VelociPastor?
The Tiptree Motherboard on Alice Sheldon and the name of the Tiptree Award (as the post says: content notes for discussion of suicide, mental illness, caregiver murder). Quick edit: valuable perspective from beatrice_otter, found via jesse_the_k.
I was bummed to hear that Alexis Kennedy, who founded Failbetter Games, has acted abusively toward women in the industry. I am glad that he hasn't been with FBG for years, since though I haven't played Fallen London much for a while, it still means a lot to me. Andrew Plotkin has some links, and Vice has a bit more detail (nb. the rest of that article discusses allegations of sexual assault and suicide).
A long tribute to Car Talk, including an interview with Ray; its humor wasn't aging well even when it was still airing live, but I have a lot of fond memories of lazing around on Sundays listening to it all the same.
Slate on What’s Missing From “White Fragility”: "Robin DiAngelo’s idea changed how white progressives talk about themselves—and little else."
Moving article from film critic A.A. Dowd on Re-reading Stephen King’s It and confronting my own personal Derry. Spoilers, naturally, and also descriptions of childhood abuse.
A Nobel-Winning Economist Goes to Burning Man to investigate urban planning, over at the NYT.
Also at the NYT, 82-Year-Old Slipped by Doormen to Steal $400,000 in Jewelry, Police Say: people skills will always count when it comes to theft.
Last one, and again from the NYT: I never watched Friends, but I liked Wesley Morris' tribute.