Posed Portraits of 19th Century Baseball Stars https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/posed-portraits-of-19th-century-baseball-stars/

Picking up good vibrations. Studies show that being in close proximity to high performers at work improves your performance significantly. https://www.outsideonline.com/2391572/send-good-vibes

What the Black Woman Thinks About Women's Lib: A 1971 essay by Toni Morrison about the women’s liberation movement https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/22/archives/what-the-black-woman-thinks-about-womens-lib-the-black-woman-and.html

The death of the calorie https://www.1843magazine.com/features/death-of-the-calorie

An exclusive look at an original iPhone prototype https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/19/18263844/apple-iphone-prototype-m68-original-development-board-red

8 ways sci-fi imagines data storage
We can remember it for you wholesale, writes @carolpinchefsky . But we probably prefer to use today's storage technology, at least for now. #storage #scifi
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/8-ways-sci-fi-imagines-data-storage-1903.html

Francis Spufford has written a prequel to C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books—but not everyone thinks we need one. #cosobookclub https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2019/03/c-s-lewis-s-story-has-already-been-told-why-we-don-t-need-new-narnia-book

No lie! FSU researcher developing world's first online polygraph https://phys.org/news/2019-03-fsu-world-online-polygraph.html

A guy walks into a bar and sees a dog lying in the corner, licking his balls.

Guy turns to the bartender and says, "Boy, I wish I could do that."

The Bartender replies, "You'd better try petting him first."

The business of kidnapping: Inside the secret world of hostage negotiation https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/25/business-of-kidnapping-inside-the-secret-world-of-hostage-negotiation-ransom-insurance

Nitrogen-fixing trees "eat" rocks, play pivotal role in forest health https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/nitrogen-fixing-trees-%E2%80%9Ceat%E2%80%9D-rocks-play-pivotal-role-forest-health

What do you do to hand over the reins when you leave a job?

(Assume you want the company/person to succeed.)

More useful, perhaps: What have others done to help you during a similar transition? What do you wish they'd done?

Photographer Mathias Svold explores a Gold Rush-era highway which paves the way to the West's last frontier. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/destinations/north-america/united-states/nevada/pictures-loneliest-road-america-route-50/

Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, and Gene Wolfe discuss science-fiction writing with Studs Terkel and Calvin Trillin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZvcKB9vQO0

A lovely write-up of embroidery in the Arts & Crafts era https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-dawn-of-diy-when-it-was-hip-to-stitch/

Meetings! https://i.imgur.com/7S39v6X.gif

"People ask me, 'Is it hard having to be funny all the time?' The difficult thing is being serious." Calvin Trillin interviewed by George Plimpton (1995) https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1552/calvin-trillin-the-art-of-humor-no-3-calvin-trillin

The era of on-premises CPU-based #HPC computing is over. Up your expertise on all the latest buzzwords: cloud computing, GPUs, accelerators, heterogeneous environments. https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/identifying-developers-hpc-priorities-parallelism-accelerators-and-more-1903.html