Made in the shape of animals, these baby bottles, found in Austria, were constructed during the Late Bronze Age. https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/neolithic-parenting-baby-bottles/

Can You Draw a Perfect Circle? (There goes YOUR day.) https://vole.wtf/perfect-circle/

One Amazonian bird sings louder than a rock concert. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/watch-world-s-loudest-bird-scream-mate

Homeless after coming out, strangers helped valedictorian Seth Owen pay for college. Today, he helps other LGBTQ teens afford school. https://t.co/uXZmFJrMoH

Equifax protected its main database with user name “admin” and password “admin” [pdf] #cososec
http://securities.stanford.edu/filings-documents/1063/EI00_15/2019128_r01x_17CV03463.pdf

"During an 18-month restoration of the painting in 2008, conservators at the National Gallery of Art uncovered a pair of drawings hidden beneath the visible layers of oil paint. More recently, however, they’ve been able to see them in much greater detail."
https://mymodernmet.com/virgin-of-the-rocks-underdrawing/

Scientists discovered the oldest written record of auroras on 2,700-year-old cuneiform tablets from Babylonian and Assyrian astrologers. The tablets reference a "red glow" covering the entire sky at the same time solar activity peaked (based on spikes in radioactive Carbon-14 found in tree rings).
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/10/ancient-middle-eastern-astrologers-recorded-the-oldest-known-evidence-of-auroras

The merger between T-Mobile and Sprint is good for businesses, says my friend Wayne Rash, despite what so state attorneys general and Consumers Union might think. https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynerash/2019/10/21/why-the-t-mobile-sprint-merger-may-help-your-business/#4f93e85e5763

What's your stupidest, pettiest reason to be mad about Trump? None of the serious, major problems, mind you. But the dumb shit that irks you.

Me: That he hasn't thrown out the first pitch at a baseball game. Dammit that's un-American!

Running a kitchen in the middle of a protest camp presents some unusual operational challenges. https://www.1843magazine.com/1843/how-to-feed-a-protest-movement-cooking-with-extinction-rebellion

"Sugary drinks cause sharper spikes in blood sugar than most types of food, studies find. Over time, they may be more apt to disrupt the body’s insulin regulation." https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/health-disease/2019/do-soda-taxes-work

**What to do when you encounter sexual harassment**
Practical lessons for women (particularly in technology fields) who encounter harassment and aren’t sure what to do.
...by me

https://medium.com/@estherschindler/what-to-do-when-you-encounter-sexual-harassment-b4ebf84053d9

TWO articles by me, this morning.

First:

Reckoning with the #MeToo Movement: An Interview with Linda Hirshman

The #MeToo movement goes in fits and starts. But, suggests Reckoning’s Linda Hirshman, that’s to be expected. Every social change experiences a backlash.

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2019/10/reckoning-with-the-metoo-movement-an-interview-with-linda-hirshman/

Have you ever hired someone, and needed to let 'em go shortly thereafter because it wasn't a fit with the team?

If so: Now that you have hindsight, what -- if anything -- could/should you have recognized during the interview process? (Whether you were manager or colleague.)

(I'm contemplating writing an article collecting advice, but am trying to determine what it might say. So private messages are perfectly fine, because at this point it's simple curiosity.)

Exquisite photographs of tsuba, or sword guards, from medieval and early modern Japan. https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/photographs-of-japanese-sword-guards-1916/

So I just spent an hour looking over my collection of Statements of Work, to put one together for New Client.

How's YOUR Sunday shaping up?

"Maybe it’s the interface, or the interactions, or how well it fits human cognition, but it’s worth spending time to look past ham-handed portrayals of coding to see if there’s something else that’s valuable there." https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/sci-fi-movies-coding-technology-interfaces.html

Trump's administration has hired a lobbyist for every 14 political appointments made.

What was that, again, about draining a swamp?

https://www.propublica.org/article/we-found-a-staggering-281-lobbyists-whove-worked-in-the-trump-administration

Since the 1910s, a mysterious ailment has afflicted coffee crops around the world. When plucked from the tree, some coffee fruit, usually plump and crimson, is riddled with round holes, leaving the beans inside nearly useless. The damage is all caused by the berry borer, a tiny, caffeine-loving beetle. But where did this insect come from? https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-kills-coffee-plants