estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
Vinyl records are more popular than compact discs. Sales of records in the US surpassed CDs for the first time since 1986. (paywall) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-10/vinyl-record-sales-top-compact-discs-for-first-time-in-34-years
How to recognize the warning signs of a project crisis
(By me, so you know it's worth your time.)
You sometimes can identify markers for an imminent project meltdown. But you have to pay attention to the red flags. Here’s what to look for.
https://www.functionize.com/blog/how-to-recognize-the-warning-signs-of-a-project-crisis/
Oktoberfest From Home: Turn your living room into the beer festival with this virtual tour, Zoomed to you live from Germany. https://www.bavarianbeervacations.com/package/oktoberfest-virtual-tour/
A street view of 1940s New York. https://1940s.nyc/map#13.69/40.7093/-73.99397
Video contradicts public statement LA County Sheriff's office gave about why public radio reporter Josie Huang was arrested. They said she did not ID herself as a reporter and did not back away when requested. Her video contradict both statements. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/14/la-sheriffs-josie-huang-npr/
A collection of new and old car owners manuals of different makes https://ownersman.com
"Zoom towns" – Vacation towns that are booming as more people Work From Anywhere. Because we'd all like for emails to 'find us well' on a beach instead of our couch. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/09/08/909680016/zoom-towns-and-the-new-housing-market-for-the-2-americas
The demise of the second-hand bookshop https://thecritic.co.uk/the-demise-of-the-second-hand-bookshop/
It’s been a record year for guitar sales. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/style/guitar-sales-fender-gibson.html
Once the most famous Chinese dish in America, chop suey helped spur the growth of Chinese restaurants. A Smithsonian curator is now criss-crossing the country to research its beginnings. (2017) https://www.americanheritage.com/mixed-bits-true-history-chop-suey
A good reminder. https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
The country that gets remote working right https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200623-what-the-dutch-can-teach-the-world-about-remote-work
The average height of a Dutch man is 182.5cm; a Dutch woman 168.7cm. By comparison their American counterparts measure 177.1cm and 163.5cm respectively. It wasn’t always this way. http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200823-why-are-the-dutch-so-tall
Take a trip down MP3 memory lane. A virtual museum is displaying 65,000 skins for Winamp, the music-playing software popular in the early days of the internet. https://news.avclub.com/attention-digital-anthropologists-you-can-now-visit-an-1844954715
After centuries of misunderstanding, research has finally tied the speech disorder to certain genes and brain alterations — and new treatments may be on the horizon. https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2020/new-neuroscience-stuttering
Image Gallery: Reconstructions of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World https://www.ancient.eu/collection/88/reconstructions-of-the-seven-wonders-of-the-ancien/
"As millions of people around the world become intimately familiar with their home decor, the Swedish furniture giant IKEA is offering an online resource to fuel your redecoration reveries." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-25/it-s-time-to-browse-every-ikea-catalog-since-1951
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017