[NEWS] Ten JSTOR Daily links: Beowulf, grain and beer, Sinclair, birds, TV, books ...

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• JSTOR Daily considers race as a subject for discussion in Beowulf.


• JSTOR Daily suggests the possibility that grain was domesticated not to produce bread, but rather to produce beer.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how the wild rice of North America resisted efforts at domestication.


• JSTOR Daily notes the Outer Banks Brewing Station, a North Carolina brewery powered by wind energy.


• JSTOR Daily shares a classic essay by Upton Sinclair from 1906 on the issues of the American economy.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the history of the pet bird in the 19th century United States.


• JSTOR Daily considers the ways in which streaming television might not fragment markets and nations.


• JSTOR Daily reports on how Sylvia Beach, with help, opened legendary Paris bookstore Shakespeare & Co.


• JSTOR Daily reports on the surprisingly democratic origins of the Great Books of American literature.


• JSTOR Daily reports on how the horror movies of the 1970s and 1980s captured a new female audience by having more appealing girl and woman characters.