Jackfruit is an exotic fruit grown in tropical regions of the world. It is native to South India. It is part of the Moraceae plant family, which also includes fig, mulberry and breadfruit. Jackfruit has a spiky outer skin and is green or yellow in color. One unique aspect of jackfruit is its unusually large size. It is the largest tree fruit in the world and can reach up to 80 pounds (35 kg) in weight. Jackfruit has a subtle sweet and fruity flavor. It has been said to taste similar to a combination of fruits, including apples, pineapples, mangoes and bananas. Vegans and vegetarians often use this fruit as a meat substitute due to its texture, which is comparable to shredded meat. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/jackfruit-benefits
Phygital simply combines the words physical and digital to create a new word: phygital. While it’s not exactly clear who coined the term, we started using it at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Why? Because we noticed more companies quickly adjusting their strategies to digitally accomplish tasks that had previously been accomplished in-person. https://www.mobiquity.com/insights/the-future-is-phygital Thank you, Muse reader!
Also known as o-musubi or nigirimeshi,
onigiri are Japanese rice ball snacks made from cooked or steamed sushi rice, furikake seasonings (and sometimes tasty hidden fillings), wrapped a
nori seaweed wrapper. We recommend
using koshihikari
Stone of Scone, also called Stone of Destiny, Scottish Gaelic Lia Fail, stone that for centuries was associated with the crowning of Scottish kings and then, in 1296, was taken to England and later placed under the Coronation Chair. The stone, weighing 336 pounds (152 kg), is a rectangular block of pale yellow sandstone (almost certainly of Scottish origin) measuring 26 inches (66 cm) by 16 inches (41 cm) by 11 inches (28 cm). On Christmas morning 1950 the stone was stolen from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalists who took it back to Scotland. Four months later it was recovered and restored to the abbey. In 1996 the British government returned the stone to Scotland. revised and updated by Adam Augustyn https://www.britannica.com/topic/Stone-of-Scone
Sometime round about the 1580s the phrase in the nick or in the very nick began to be used for the critical moment, the exact instant at which something has to take place. The idea seems to have been that a nick was a narrow and precise marker, so that if something was in the nick it was precisely where it should be. It seems that users of the expression pretty soon afterwards found this association of ideas needed some elaboration, so started to add of time to the expression, and that’s the way it has stayed ever since. These days, the phrase more usually refers to something that only just happens in time, at the last possible moment. There are a number of other expressions involving nick, as in yet another name for the devil (this time from the personal name Nicholas). There are the British slang terms for theft (“my car’s been nicked!”) or for a police station (“the nick”), or the act of being arrested (“you’re nicked!”). There’s also the American sense of defrauding a person of money, and the Australian ideas of moving quickly or furtively, or of being in the nude (“in the nick”). https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-nic2.htm
Digital content gives publishers more power over prices, because it allows them to treat libraries differently than they treat other kinds of buyers. Last year, the Denver Public Library increased its digital checkouts by more than sixty per cent, to 2.3 million, and spent about a third of its collections budget on digital content, up from twenty per cent the year before. Libraries can buy print books in bulk from any seller that they choose, and, thanks to a legal principle called the first-sale doctrine, they have the right to lend those books to any number of readers free of charge. But the first-sale doctrine does not apply to digital content. For the most part, publishers do not sell their e-books or audiobooks to libraries—they sell digital distribution rights to third-party venders, such as OverDrive. There are a handful of popular e-book venders, including Bibliotheca, Hoopla, Axis 360, and the nonprofit Digital Public Library of America. But OverDrive is the largest. It is the company behind the popular app Libby, which, as the Apple App Store puts it, “lets you log in to your local library to access ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines, all for the reasonable price of free.” The vast majority of OverDrive’s earnings come from markups on the digital content that it licenses to libraries and schools, which is to say that these earnings come largely from American taxes. As libraries and schools have transitioned to e-books, the company has skyrocketed in value. Rakuten, the maker of the Kobo e-reader, bought OverDrive for more than four hundred million dollars, in 2015. Last year, it sold the company to K.K.R., the private-equity firm made famous by the 1989 book “Barbarians at the Gate.” The details of the sale were not made public, but Rakuten reported a profit of “about $365.6 million.” Daniel A. Gros https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/an-app-called-libby-and-the-surprisingly-big-business-of-library-e-books
On
September 9, 1910, almost exactly three years after they met, Alice B. Toklas
moved in with famous
comma-hater Gertrude Stein at 27 rue de Fleurus in Paris. Their relationship, and their place at the
very center of the Parisian avant-garde scene, would become the stuff of
legends—not least because of Stein’s most popular book, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas—though
it was only later that Toklas would find
her own voice as a food writer (with a legendary recipe
for hash brownies, no less).
Literary Hub September 5, 2021
To egg someone on means to incite a person to take a course of action, to encourage someone to do something, especially something socially unacceptable, something criminal or something dangerous. This phrase usually carries a negative connotation. The verb eggede, from which the phrase to egg someone on is derived, has been in the English language since approximately 1200. It is derived from the Old Norse word eggja, which means to incite or provoke. The idiom to egg someone on first appeared in the mid-1500s. https://grammarist.com/idiom/egg-someone-on/#:~:text=The%20verb%20eggede%2C%20from%20which,appeared%20in%20the%20mid%2D1500s.
People forget years and remember moments. - Ann Beattie, novelist (b. 8 Sep 1947)
winged word (plural winged words) (idiomatic, literary, chiefly in the plural) A word or statement which is very apt for an occasion, or memorable. [early 17th c.] quotations ▼ Synonym: mot juste https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/winged_word#English
September 8 is recognized by UNESCO as International Literacy Day to highlight the importance of literacy to individuals, communities, and societies.
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2417 September 8, 2021
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