This is really good news. 400,000 children die of malaria every year, and a vaccine is now finally in sight.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/23/oxford-malaria-vaccine-proves-highly-effective-in-burkina-faso-trial

Marketing friends: Join @TransmissionB2B and @ITSMA_B2B on Wed April 28 8:00am PST for The Great ABM Debate. A panel of experts debate account-based marketing issues, from the best approach to campaigns to the merits of each type. https://eur.cvent.me/lz1Wr

Today's soundtrack

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/jim-steinman-best-songs-1158493

'People liked talking about their reading habits long before social media.' https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2021/april/sharing-reading-lists-online.html

The snack keeping Taiwan's machines running https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210414-the-good-luck-snack-that-makes-taiwans-technology-behave

Despite what seemed like insurmountable challenges last year, people kept buying books. But the tide did not rise for all authors and sellers. Now the industry is wondering: Will the shifts brought on by the pandemic, favoring online retailers over bookstores and established authors over new ones, change publishing forever? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/18/books/book-sales-publishing-pandemic-coronavirus.html

Armed with this propaganda-filled cookbook published by opponents of Oliver Cromwell, you'll get a hearty helping of family recipes, with a side of fake news. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cromwell-cookbook

"As a fan of Tolkien’s literature, I am interested by how his stories are interwoven within this cartographic framework. One quick glance can rekindle specific storylines, characters, and events." https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/newsroom/blog/real-world-mapping-meets-tolkien

We tend to lay out our anecdotes almost like short stories or screenplays to give our lives meaning; our plots (do they have silver linings? hopeful endings?) can reveal something about how we handle setbacks. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/05/how-will-we-remember-covid-19-pandemic/618397/

At breakfast, the wife asks her husband, “What would you do if I won the Lotto?”

He says, “I’d take my half and leave you.”

She says, "Great. Here's $6, I won $12 yesterday! Stay in touch.”

The longterm impact of the Hays Code on American culture is perhaps only now coming to light. With the way that movies and television have programmed our understanding of history, world view and our denial of “darker” elements for so long, we’re only just beginning to understand how its censorship might have changed the course of history. https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/04/13/hollywoods-beguiling-queen-of-pre-code-cinema/

HIVE MIND for those who used to work in an office and have been WFH in pandemic: Compare how often/much you print at home vs how much you printed in the office. What do you continue to print? What did you stop printing? (And who pays for supplies?)

I wrote this back in 2010. I'm still proud of it. https://www.computerworld.com/article/2826737/programmers-who-defined-the-technology-industry--where-are-they-now-.html

For years, the Mac came with a death sound that played when the machine crashed. I never heard any of these! https://512pixels.net/2021/04/mac-chimes-of-death/

“This year, some Manhattan clubs have banded together to create a new music gala, the Macintosh New York Music Festival,” The New York Times proclaimed just before the event’s launch. “It could be the first time that a rock festival is taking place simultaneously in clubs and on computer screens, with its own site on the Internet’s World Wide Web.”
https://www.pollstar.com/article/how-1995s-macintosh-ny-music-fest-livestreamed-25-years-ahead-of-its-time-147822

Steinman’s work appeared in a multitude of genres, such as adult contemporary, rock, dance and pop, in addition to musical theater and film scores.

He composed rock singer Meat Loaf’s debut album “Bat Out of Hell” in 1977, which is one of the best-selling albums of all time with more than 50 million copies sold around the world.
https://variety.com/2021/music/news/jim-steinman-dead-meat-loaf-celine-dion-1234955739/

Within 24 hours of their arrival at the immigrant inspection station in Ellis Island, New York, they were expelled from the country because of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a controversial law that barred the immigration of Chinese people into the US. The six men disappeared from history – until now. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56755614

Why does walking help us think? Jeremy DeSilva looks to great writers, from Charles Darwin to Toni Morrison, for answers. https://lithub.com/on-the-link-between-great-thinking-and-obsessive-walking/