13 virtual train rides around the world that you can take right now. https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/bus-train/virtual-train-rides

Images from a 16th-century treatise on comets, created anonymously in Flanders. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-comet-book

Covid-19 makes it clearer than ever: access to the internet should be a universal right -- Tim Berners-Lee https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/04/covid-19-internet-universal-right-lockdown-online

There are so many ways that I am invisible to my privilege.

(Also, that is one hell of a headline.)

https://franklywrite.com/2020/06/01/a-white-woman-racism-and-a-poodle/

Poetry after the “Black Death” in the 14th century wasn’t widely supportive of social change. The opposite was often true. https://theconversation.com/know-your-place-poetry-after-the-black-death-reflected-fear-of-social-change-139703

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a US$187 million contract to design the Habitation And Logistics Outpost (HALO) crew module for NASA's Gateway deep space outpost. The HALO will provide pressurized living quarters for visiting astronauts. https://newatlas.com/space/northrop-grumman-selected-design-build-gateways-habitat-module/

Is there enough work for everyone? Kim Stanley Robinson on the future of planetary employment. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-05/the-climate-case-for-a-jobs-guarantee-kim-stanley-robinson

"A great book might stay with us for a long time but, often, its cover does too."
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200604-the-best-book-covers-in-history

Surely I'm not the only person to hear about "Cops" being canceled to think about this 1997 viral video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HO70-Rk3jE

The Dalai Lama is going to drop an album. The record includes chants and teachings, and commemorates the spiritual leader’s 85th birthday. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dalai-lama-debut-album-inner-world-1012484/

I should have known that jms would have written the right words to help us through this time:

Here, gathered together in common cause, we agree to recognize this singular truth and this singular rule:
That we must be kind to one another
Because each voice enriches us and ennobles us and each voice lost diminishes us.
We are the voice of the Universe, the soul of creation, the fire that will light the way to a better future.
We are one.

https://greysector.wordpress.com/2015/04/17/the-declaration-a-babylon-5-wedding-reading/

Plenty of breadporn for you here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73oENaDiq04&feature=youtu.be

The Toronto Police Force was dismantled and rebuilt in 1859 after failing to contain a bar brawl between a group of firefighters and a horde of angry circus clowns.
https://torontoist.com/2013/09/how-a-fight-with-clowns-led-to-the-birth-of-modern-policing-in-toronto/

The Juno spacecraft has been circling Jupiter since 2016. Here are four things we’ve learned so far about the biggest planet in the solar system. https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/physical-world/2020/what-has-juno-learned-about-jupiter

How to upgrade the lighting in your home office.

I read this, drooled over the groovy lights... and ended up buying a new light bulb. But I may still invest in another desk lamp.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/29/how-to-upgrade-your-at-home-videoconference-setup-lighting-edition/

The New White House Fence Is Getting Covered In Protest Art.
https://dcist.com/story/20/06/07/the-new-white-house-fence-is-getting-covered-in-protest-art/

How to build your own rooftop garden https://modernfarmer.com/2020/06/how-to-build-an-urban-rooftop-garden/

"In a top-ten list of all-time best type designers, Robert Granjon (1513–90) would be up there." https://ilovetypography.com/2020/06/06/robert-granjon-civilite-death-of-a-typeface/

“Has this ever happened to you? You express an idea in a meeting, and folks ignore it. Later, someone repeats the idea, and suddenly everyone thinks it’s gold.” https://chelseatroy.com/2019/10/21/listening-part-1-introduction/

How Cars Broke America. SF Urban Planner Talks About Future City Planning https://www.wired.com/story/cities-without-cars-san-francisco-jeff-tumlin/