If You Are Also Fed Up Of Reading Protein Propaganda

The most popular link last time was this incredible video, with this xkcd comic second.

1. I'm always here for an Emily Gould essay. Here, she's investigating the supposed "cliff" that women experience at the age of 44, when the physical effects of aging really start to kick in, apparently.
2. A chef explains why she quit appearing in videos for the New York Times after many years of putting up with awful things because she didn't want to "seem difficult". This is an especially grim sentence from her piece, about how this work almost put her in a dangerous situation when giving birth to her first child: "My hopes for a natural delivery were shattered all for six YouTube videos at $800 each." I suspect that this situation came about partly because of a legacy media institution taking advantage of the fact that people will work for them for prestige/exposure, and partly because the advertising rates on YouTube are terrible so the NYT isn't even making that much money from videos in the first place.
3. A spectacularly witchy music video from Florence and the Machine.
4. If you are also fed up of reading protein propaganda on the packaging of otherwise quite normal foods, then you might be interested in this exploration of how protein "became girly-pop".
5. A digital archive of "found cassettes". If you're into making playlists, there could be some good inspiration here.
6. It just goes boing.
7. A website precisely tailored to my interests: fontsinmovies.com.
8. I really like the anonymous personal essay project I thought about that a lot, where they publish a new post every day between 1st and 24th December. My favourite so far this year is about celebrating Christmas your own way.
9. This is the only fake fireplace screensaver thingy I will accept.
10. Not sure why, but I'm just ambiently interested in what is going on with the beavers. A new wild one just showed up in Norfolk and nobody knows where it came from!
11. Some people call it the Portal, others simply describe it as "Aging Out of Fucks". But there is seemingly a neuroscientific explanation for why, towards the end of their thirties, women become less and less able to pretend they care about things.
12. The many excellent designs of Burkhard Mangold, pioneer of swiss poster art.
13. Twenty Japanese Words for Rain.