"Even though hiring has held up well for lower-earning workers, it has plunged for people earning six figures or more. We're in the midst of a white-collar recession." https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/tech-jobs-are-mired-in-a-recession/ar-AA1uhCqH#

You need this to start your day. Trust me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUleKnUUaGI

The linguistic fingerprint refers to the idea that each human being uses language differently, and that this difference between people involves a collection of markers which stamps a speaker/writer as unique. https://mikekentz.substack.com/p/navigating-ai-cheating-flipping-the

Belgian scientists created AI that can predict the taste of beer, and even advise beer makers on how to improve the flavor. https://phys.org/news/2024-03-ai-quality-beer.html

Watch 70+ classic literary films free online: The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Gulliver's Travels, Jane Eyre, and more https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/watch-70-classic-literary-films-free-online-the-snows-of-kilimanjaro-gullivers-travels-jane-eyre-and-more.html

Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-ramanujan-was-a-genius-math-is-still-catching-up-20241021/

"The discovery of a 7,000-year-old well in Czechia’s Pardubice region six years ago, thought to be the oldest surviving man-made wooden object in the world, thrilled excavators. Now experimental archaeologists from the Všestary Prehistoric Archaeology Park near Hradec Králové are making a copy of the well, using prehistoric tools and methods, that will be displayed alongside the original." https://english.radio.cz/carpenters-make-replica-7000-year-old-wooden-well-using-prehistoric-tools-8812306

Fiction Based on the Fascinating Lives of Real Women from History
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2024/02/29/fiction-based-fascinating-real-women

Italian village offers $1 homes to Americans upset by the US election result

The village is now offering three tiers of accommodation: Free temporary homes to certain digital nomads, one-euro homes in need of renovations, and ready-to-occupy houses for prices up to 100,000 euros ($105,000).

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/travel/italian-village-ollolai-wants-americans-election-one-dollar-homes/index.html

EYE CANDY
The Art of the Literary Poster: Works from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-art-of-the-literary-poster-works-from-the-leonard-a-lauder-collection/exhibition-objects

Enslaved.org is bringing together data sets of enslaved people to make them easier to locate. https://enslaved.org

More than half the adults in America read on a sixth-grade level or below, according to the National Literacy Institute. (Article from 2023) https://www.al.com/news/2023/03/archibald-we-all-get-screwed-because-americans-cant-read.html

Sadly true

Frank Lloyd Wright might be best known as one of most revered American architects of entire 20th century. But perhaps less well known is his brief foray into textile and wallpaper design during the 1950s. https://blog.fabrics-store.com/2024/11/19/from-architecture-to-pattern-frank-lloyd-wrights-textiles/

58% of B2B buyers currently purchase from brands they originally found through content on social media (and buyers working in SaaS were 29% more likely than average to say this).
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/samfjacobs_content-to-conversion-report-activity-7128856599351189504-6Z-z/

Most people travel the world to visit various natural wonders, take a tour of the famous monuments or go in search of authentic cuisine. Richard Ross goes in search of bomb shelters. https://www.messynessychic.com/2014/08/07/waiting-for-the-end-of-the-world-fallout-shelter-tourism/

@Lovechild444 OMG yes. Something like 12 million since Election Day.

Fire, water and poison in the Library of Alexandria https://english.elpais.com/opinion/2024-04-04/fire-water-and-poison-in-the-library-of-alexandria.html

Mood

At the MetPublications digital archive, you can read a great variety of the books, guides, and periodicals it’s put out for more than a century. OMG, all those expensive books about Tiffany are downloadable as PDFs! https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/download-1600-publications-from-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art.html