estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
Deer, bobcats and black bears are gathering around parts of Yosemite national park typically teeming with visitors. Earlier this month, for the first time in recent memory, pronghorn antelope ventured into the sun-scorched lowlands of Death Valley national park. Undeterred by temperatures that climbed to over 110F, the animals were observed by park staff browsing on a hillside not far from Furnace Creek visitor center.
It’s tougher than Kevlar and incredibly light, but scientists struggle to re-create nature’s most elusive textile https://www.1843magazine.com/style/the-science-of-fashion/why-spider-silk-is-natures-most-elusive-textile
Google has announced a new, welcome and no doubt long-asked-for feature to its Maps app: wheelchair accessibility info. https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/21/google-highlights-accessible-locations-with-new-maps-feature/
Not one person who went for a job interview in 2015 got the answer right to, "So where do you see yourself 5 years from now?"
(Stolen from someone on Twitter.)
Researchers have found a new species of pygmy seahorse the size of a grain of rice. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/05/new-pygmy-seahorse-species-discovered-africa/
Sid Meier’s Civilization VI free until May 28th https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/sid-meiers-civilization-vi/home
The mobile testing gotchas you need to know about
Testing applications on mobile devices has its own set of perils. For how many of these are you prepared?
https://www.functionize.com/blog/the-mobile-testing-gotchas-you-need-to-know-about/
What if Hillary had become president? An alternate history (without Bill Clinton). I'm tempted to read this novel. #cosobookclub
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/15/what-if-hillary-had-become-president-curtis-sittenfeld-on-rewriting-clintons-life
The Humboldt Forum, a new exhibition venue in Berlin, has raised questions about museum restitution and the importance of researching objects' provenance. https://www.sapiens.org/culture/museum-restitution/
7 ancient ruins in the UK beyond Stonehenge https://matadornetwork.com/read/ancient-ruins-uk-besides-stonehenge/
The First Bar Code Was Round (2014) https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/11/the-first-bar-code-was-round/383171/
Your mantis shrimp thoughts of the morning https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
Medieval bridges were marvels of engineering, given the technology available at the time — and nowhere more so than in the case of London Bridge, where deep, tidal flows made construction incredibly challenging. https://www.countrylife.co.uk/architecture/the-medieval-engineering-marvels-that-led-to-the-creation-of-old-london-bridge-215363
Postcards from the launch of New York’s underground travel network in the early 20th century. https://cooper.edu/architecture/events-and-exhibitions/exhibitions/postcards-under-new-york-subterranean-travel-early-20th-century
At the Circulating Library “offers a biographical and bibliography database of nineteenth-century British fiction.” https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/index.php
At the Circulating Library “offers a biographical and bibliography database of nineteenth-century British fiction.” https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/index.php
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017