My Amazon review of _American bungalow style_ 5 stars

Swoon-worthy photos for fans of the Arts & Crafts movement, and a lot of information too https://amzn.to/2y7Kf4R

Who needs that “ambient office noise generator” when you could have background sounds from a scriptorium? https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/customTheNameOfTheRose.php

Weird hair stories in the (old) news https://witness2fashion.wordpress.com/2015/04/16/permanents-and-marcels-bridge-the-twenties-to-thirties/

#Sustainability is good business. Here’s how three companies are making it easier for consumers to both do the right thing – and bolster the bottom line.

https://pgsignal.com/three-companies-making-sustainability-easier-for-consumers/

These nature live streams will lift your spirits during lockdown https://bgr.com/2020/04/11/nature-live-streams-cams-youtube-twitch/

"The stock market, in the aggregate, pays little attention to the present and almost none to the past. It looks to the future. Stock prices are an expression of investors’ expectations of how the economy will look next week, next month, next year and over the next decade or even longer."

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-04-10/stock-market-rally-unemployment-news

My Amazon review of The German Cookbook. Lots of choices, from Grandma's favorite recipes to the cooking your own grandkids will remember fondly. #cooking #cosobookclub
https://amzn.to/3cjbs39

Italian comic book illustrator Milo Manara is drawing the female heroes fighting the virus. "I'm setting them down on paper so that we may remember them one, two, 10 years down the line. I hope they will have helped us enter a new world." https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/2020/04/09/italian-artist-pays-homage-pandemics-heroic-women/

Robot vans are delivering food in China 🤖🛒https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/transportation/self-driving/robot-vehicles-make-contactless-deliveries-amid-coronavirus-quarantine

What is linen? A brief history of the world’s most ancient fabric https://blog.fabrics-store.com/2020/04/12/what-is-linen-a-brief-history-of-the-worlds-most-ancient-fabric/

What coronavirus can teach us about hope
"At moments of immense change, we see with new clarity the systems – political, economic, social, ecological – in which we are immersed as they change around us. We see what’s strong, what’s weak, what’s corrupt, what matters and what doesn’t."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/07/what-coronavirus-can-teach-us-about-hope-rebecca-solnit

Feeling uncertain and overwhelmed? One thing we can all do: keep supporting independent bookstores. https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/ct-books-biblioracle-coronavirus-bookstores-0405-20200401-rxkhywhgnffh5p4qcukyjbwyjq-story.html

Imagine touching the armrest of your sofa to change the channel on your television, or pressing against a lightbulb stencil on the wall to turn on your smart light – these functions and many more like them are now possible thanks to new research. https://newatlas.com/technology/sprayable-interactive-sensors/

How Traditional French Butter Is Made In Brittany https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=ZyXUzhTn0kI&feature=emb_logo

A very detailed Corona curriculum for your kids. https://medium.com/@VCRebecca/corona-curriculum-8986914e9725

"For more than five years, one man has been creating 3D models of every single monster in Dungeons & Dragons’ 5th edition, and giving away those digital files for free, so people with 3D printers can make them at home." https://www.polygon.com/2020/4/10/21173630/dungeons-and-dragons-free-3d-printing-files-miguel-zavala

An anonymous donor gave every household in an Iowa town $150 in gift cards for food. https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/10/us/iowa-earlham-anonymous-donor-gift-cards-trnd/index.html

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”

https://fdr.blogs.archives.gov/2020/04/08/the-75th-anniversary-of-fdrs-death-his-true-legacy-leadership-in-times-of-crisis/amp/

If Lloyd Alter were building a new house right now, he’d be sure to add one unusual feature: a bathroom sink in the front vestibule. “We're going to see a real resurgence of the vestibule, I think,” says Alter, a former architect and design historian who now teaches Sustainable Design at the Ryerson School of Interior Design.
https://www.citylab.com/design/2020/04/bathroom-home-design-history-disease-hygiene-coronavirus/609745/

In the tiny municipality of St. Vith, Belgium, there’s a most unusual library. Unusual, that is, because the objects on its shelves need to be fed every few months. Burbling away in refrigerators are 105 sourdough starters from around the world. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-visit-to-the-worlds-only-sourdough-library