estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
Who influenced you, even tho they're outside your profession?
"In music, the greatest influence on me was the great American Violinist Camilla Wicks. She opened a new world to me on pursuing perfection and ways to think about problem-solving."
Where Have You Gone, Peter Norton? wrote @harrymccracken in 2014
(I was just looking for my Norton laptop bag, which I still have somewhere)
https://www.technologizer.com/2014/06/05/where-have-you-gone-peter-norton/
What book have you tried to read several times, but given up on for one reason or another -- and you still intend to give it another try?
An aquarium is having a lot of fun with the fact that an electric eel is powering its Christmas tree. https://apnews.com/c7b9a629f32d0cbd0598d9c9755ef58b
The radio astronomy experiment will listen for signals from the early universe https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/astrophysics/pioneering-astronomy-experiment-begins-beyond-the-moon
TIL that if your client sends a conference call meeting invite and doesn't include a "remind 5 minutes before" alarm on it, you can blissfully work through the appointment. #oops
The Database of British and Irish Hills began 20 years ago and now catalogs more than 20,000 bits of bumpy terrain. http://www.hills-database.co.uk/index.html
A selection of D. A. Rovinskiĭ’s collection of marvellous lubki — colorful Russian prints from the 16th through 20th century. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/d-a-rovinskiis-collection-of-russian-lubki-18th%E2%80%9319th-century
The cold, finicky science of ice crystal formation https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/physical-world/2017/how-snowflakes-grow
A man goes to the hospital and he passes a man in his room, masturbating furiously. He asks, "Doc, why is he doing that?" The doc says, "He was brought in with over-productive testicles, and if he doesn't relieve the pressure, his testicles will explode."
They walk a little further and they see a nurse performing oral sex on another patient. "What's his story?" he asks. Doc says, "Same condition, better health insurance." #jokes
Ride-hailing apps have increased the demand for bartenders https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/11/19/after-uber-arrives-heavy-drinking-increases
"I have lately made an Experiment in Electricity that I desire never to repeat."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/that-time-benjamin-franklin-tried-and-failed-to-electrocute-a-turkey/
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States Move to Add Native American History to Curriculum
A recent report shows that 87% of state history standards include no mention of Native American history after 1900.
As the author wrote, “I’ve spent eight years at @verge learning to look at a viral story, figure out where it’s from, and gauge how much to trust it. I decided to lay out my strategies and some reasoning behind them — basically, how to find true things online, and why to care.”
10 Sci-Fi and Fantasy must-reads from the 2010s: feat. N. K. Jemisin, Ted Chiang, Victor LaValle, Ursula K. Le Guin, and more. Confession: I've read none of them, but I'm about to fix that. https://bookmarks.reviews/10-sci-fi-and-fantasy-must-reads-from-the-2010s/
Amazon is reducing its holiday orders from publishers, so why not buy your books directly from small presses? Here’s how to do it. #cosobookclub https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/ct-books-biblioracle-1201-20191125-arlmpbtvjfd5rayrxelxnnqs34-story.html
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We just need a few giant laser pointers. Point the laser at what we want destroyed, and then let the giant cats attack.
Okay, so maybe THIS could get me interested in doing a gingerbread thing again. https://twitter.com/girlscientist/status/1201604170421284870
Why retro tech will never disappear 📀 https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/11/22/20972630/retro-tech-gadgets-walkman-dvds
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017