In Language
9 Best Articles in 2021
Quartz
Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea
Quartz
3 min read · 186 saves · From 2018
In Health
Futurity News
Tea drinkers may get some protection against brain decline
Futurity News
2 min read · 63 saves · 2019-09-12 · People who drink tea have more organized brain regions than people who don't, which could protect against declining cognitive health as we age.
In Health
New Scientist
Plastic tea bags shed billions of microplastic particles into the cup
New Scientist
1 min read · 65 saves · 2019-09-25 · Making a cup of tea with a plastic teabag releases around 11.6 billion microplastic particles in a single cup
theteamaestro.com
The Tea Things of Jane Austen
theteamaestro.com
3 min read · 21 saves · 2020-10-26 · Tea Maestro · What tea did Jane Austen drink? And what role did tea play in her novels? The writer often used tea as a literary tool to bring the sexes together.
The New York Times
The Topanga Tea Ceremony
The New York Times
8 min read · 21 saves · 2019-12-06 · Emma Carmichael · Why does Los Angeles sit in the quiet?
In Environment
CBC News
Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup
CBC News
4 min read · 41 saves · 2019-09-25 · You may be swallowing billions of tiny plastic particles while sipping a cup of freshly brewed gourmet tea, a new study from McGill University in Montreal suggests.
Quartz
When you don’t know what to do, make tea
Quartz
5 min read · 26 saves · From 2018 · If making tea is your default thing, then no matter what's happening, you'll always know just what to do.
Bloomberg
Long Island Iced Tea Soars 500% After Changing Its Name to Long Blockchain
Bloomberg
3 min read · 127 saves · From 2017 · There’s a new leader in the sweepstakes for the zaniest name change in the crypto craze.
metro.co.uk
This new 'sexual consent and tea' video from the police is brilliant
metro.co.uk
1 min read · 15 saves · From 2016
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The Guardian
Experience: I drink more than 50 cups of tea a day
The Guardian
2 min read · 28 saves · Jan 15th · I judge every tea against four categories: zing, sparkle, colour and body. I taste at double strength, before spitting it out
Live Science
'Magic mushrooms' grow in man's blood after injection with shroom tea
Live Science
2 min read · 12 saves · Jan 13th · A man brewed a tea from "magic mushrooms" and injected the concoction into his veins; several days later, he ended up at the emergency department with the fungus growing in his blood.The man spent 22…
In Art
Colossal
Minuscule Scenes Appear Against the Backdrop of Used Tea Bags in Watercolor Paintings by Ruby Silvious
Colossal
1 min read · 35 saves · 2020-12-22 · From her studio in Coxsackie, New York, Ruby Silvious (previously) repurposes the thin paper pouches holding her beverage of choice into miniature canvases. Sometimes strung together or ripped to…
thegrowthop.com
Man suffers multiple-organ failure after injecting magic mushroom tea in DIY bid to treat depression
thegrowthop.com
1 min read · Jan 14th · He decided to boil some psilocybin mushrooms, filter the tea by drawing it through a cotton swab and then injecting the mixture intravenously. /
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The Guardian
Experience: I drink more than 50 cups of tea a day
The Guardian
2 min read · 28 saves · Jan 15th · I judge every tea against four categories: zing, sparkle, colour and body. I taste at double strength, before spitting it out
samovartea.com
Samovar Tea Lounge
samovartea.com
1 min read · 10 saves · From 2005 · Visit us in San Francisco at any of our four locations, order online.
In Language
Open Culture
A Map of How the Word “Tea” Spread Across the World
Open Culture
2 min read · 19 saves · 2019-11-08 · Colin Marshall ·
When I order a cup of tea in Korea, where I live, I ask for cha (차); when traveling in Japan, I ask for the honorific-affixed ocha (お茶). In Spanish-speaking places I order té, which I try to pronounce as distinctly as possible from the thé I order in French-speaking ones.
sciencehistory.org
Ronald Fisher, a Bad Cup of Tea, and the Birth of Modern Statistics
sciencehistory.org
4 min read · 19 saves · 2019-08-06 · In offering his colleague a cup of tea, Ronald Fisher was just being polite. He had no intention of kicking up a dispute—much less remaking modern science.
In Design
Fast Company
This reusable plastic straw has a genius design fix that might win over the haters
Fast Company
1 min read · 47 saves · 2020-07-17 · Lilly Smith · More bubble tea. Less plastic in the ocean.
In Health
The Washington Post
These tea bags release billions of plastic particles into your brew, study shows
The Washington Post
16 saves · 2019-09-27 · If that's not your cup of tea, consider buying loose-leaf varieties.
TechCrunch
$1,000 tea infuser startup Teforia shuts down
TechCrunch
5 min read · 18 saves · From 2017 · In what the company is calling “a very difficult time for hardware companies in the smart kitchen space,” Tea infusion device startup Teforia is saying it is ceasing operations today,…
nolanlawson.com
The cost of small modules
nolanlawson.com
64 saves · From 2016 · About a year ago I was refactoring a large JavaScript codebase into smaller modules, when I discovered a depressing fact about Browserify and Webpack: “The more I modularize my code, the bigg…
theteamaestro.com
When Monkeys Picked Tea
theteamaestro.com
2 min read · 30 saves · 2020-05-10 · Tea Maestro · I received a call a few years ago from an MTV staffer who was producing a story on “manly teas.” He had been offered a monkey-picked oolong in a tea store. He was fascinated about this rare tea and…