By bringing back square dancing, as well as other primarily Anglo-Saxon dances like waltzes and quadrilles, Henry Ford believed he would be able to counteract what he saw as the unwholesome influence of jazz on America.

https://qz.com/1153516/americas-wholesome-square-dancing-tradition-is-a-tool-of-white-supremacy/

“Throughout the 19th century and into the 20th, every generation rewrote the book’s epitaph. All that changes is whodunnit.” Sorry, haters: books will never die. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/09/17/books-wont-die/

Researchers translated spider web vibrations into musical tones. They hope to someday use the findings to “talk” to arachnids. https://gizmodo.com/mit-researchers-want-to-talk-to-spiders-1846665150

Based on an analysis of more than 150 companies, the authors find that after women join the top management team, firms become more open to change and less open to risk, and they tend to shift from an M&A-focused strategy to more investment into internal R&D. https://hbr.org/2021/04/research-adding-women-to-the-c-suite-changes-how-companies-think

Neocities, a 21st century reincarnation of GeoCities https://neocities.org/

"After a year of being pandemic co-founders, we have defaulted to being very polite, caring, and tender toward each other. It’s absolutely exhausting, and it needs to stop. I didn’t move to New York City in 1995 to be tender." https://postlight.com/insights/pleasant-office-things

Five charts that show how dramatically the pandemic affected our spending https://www.vox.com/recode/22379584/spending-foot-traffic-earnest-research-data-pandemic-recovery

Steve the very guilty donkey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeeUzUwKy2w

When your trust is all but shattered
When your faith is all but killed
You can give up bitter and battered
Or you can slowly start to build #cosomusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiaSle49Ros

A NASA intern stole $21 million worth of moon rocks. He wanted to have sex on them https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/guy_steals_21_million_of

How a tiny California town rallied to save its Chinese restaurant https://www.sfgate.com/news/editorspicks/article/boulder-creek-big-basin-redwoods-red-pearl-16089969.php

Thousands of 16th, 17th and 18th century court cases - including witchcraft, missing children and swan thefts - are coming to light for the first time thanks to a Cambridge University Library archives project https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/Ely_Assizes2

Museums and cultural institutions have been racing over the past year to collect and preserve the items, memories, and experiences of the pandemic. https://www.curbed.com/2021/04/museums-collecting-covid-19-pandemic.html

“These were women who acted with ferocity and fortitude—even violently.” Judy Batalion on Jewish resistance fighters in Poland, generational trauma, and the haunting question of fight or flight. https://lithub.com/uncovering-the-stories-of-the-jewish-women-resistance-fighters-in-nazi-occupied-poland/

How to Choose a Python API Framework

Which framework you choose depends on your specific use case. To help you choose a Python framework, this guide provides an overview on some well-known Python frameworks used to build APIs and discusses their differences and strengths.
https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/how-to-choose-python-api-framework/

How Many Plants: a site where you can use your cursor to water plants https://howmanyplants.com

RIP to another voice of my childhood: Rusty Young, from Poco https://variety.com/2021/music/news/rusty-young-dead-poco-founder-country-rock-band-1234952776/

One fan requested a cat, while another requested a Pop-Tart. Torres decided to combine the two ideas into one doodle: a grey cat that looked like his own pet, Marty, but with a pink Pop-Tart body. https://www.inputmag.com/culture/nyan-cat-meme-gif-nft-10th-birthday-chris-torres-history

When animal welfare officers received a report of an unusual animal lurking in a tree in the Polish city of Krakow, they were not sure what to expect." Spoiler alert: It was a croissant. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56757956