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Bill Plaschke called up legendary Dodgers announcer Vin Scully to see how he was holding up during the pandemic.

Wouldn't you know it, Vin was full of comforting words of wisdom.

latimes.com/sports/dodgers/sto

Got time on your hands-and big ideas? Apply for the Anita Borg Systers Pass It On Awards by March 26. The cash award-up to $1000-helps fund women in computing or projects that inspire/support girls/women to enter computing. (Transparency: I'm its chair) anitab.org/awards-grants/pass-

“You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.” ~ Joss Whedon

"Take care of your spaceship." If anyone knows how to not go crazy while spending a lot of time alone, it's an astronaut. cnet.com/news/nasa-astronaut-c

TIL Gamestop tried to pass itself off as an essential tech company to stay open despite employee concerns. cnn.com/2020/03/20/tech/gamest

Some good news this week is that after announcing an initiative to harness a global computer network to contribute work towards pharmaceutical drugs to combat COVID-19, Folding@Home has seen a 1200% increase in computers actively contributing to the project. cointelegraph.com/news/folding

A Kroger chain added mini-farms to two of its supermarkets and will roll out 13 more in stores around Washington and Oregon. (Or so they planned back in December.)
citylab.com/life/2019/12/verti

"From an archaeological perspective, I’m particularly interested in how human garbage has highlighted other bouts of odd consumer behavior or responses to scarcity in past times. Frantic TP buying won’t be the first or last spate of irrationality." sapiens.org/column/curiosities

Continuing in my public service of Recommendations For Escapist Reading:

Deanna Raybourn's A Murderous Relation.
You'd be hard put to find something better than this. Smart, caring, funny protagonists, in a historical mystery with lots of unexpected twists. amzn.to/2wrXf4S

"The human mind and body have a built-in circadian system, a coordinated assembly motivated to perform certain tasks, what we might call the macrobiological clock." nautil.us/issue/83/intelligenc

One of Darwin’s theories has finally been proved. A PhD student at the University of Cambridge has done it 140 years after the great biologist’s death. edition.cnn.com/2020/03/19/wor

(From one of the newsletters to which I subscribe)
Our first responders and health care workers need our help. They need face masks, they need them now, and they need a lot of them. Please use your sewing skills to make a difference. Make a mask.

Completed masks can be donated at most local hospitals. Other organizations accepting donations are hospice care, senior centers, first responders, and shelters.

buttoncounter.com/2018/01/14/f

My Amazon review of _Circe_ by Madeline Miller
5 stars

Just the sort of escapism you need right now.
amzn.to/2WtChx7

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