There are pretty much just 12 types of academic paper. https://xkcd.com/2456/

Internet Archive Infrastructure
https://archive.org/details/jonah-edwards-presentation

"A micro-brewery in Buffalo, New York, has been offering free beer to encourage vaccine-hesitant customers to visit pop-up vaccination clinics next to its taprooms – and the program has been a roaring success." At least people are used to ordering a beer and a shot.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/10/buffalo-free-beer-program-overcome-vaccine-hesitancy

Monaghan: “I am contractually obliged to make a glowing comment here in regards to the podcast Billy and I are making together. This is proving difficult as Billy has abducted me and is holding me for ransom to the price of 44 bananas. Please, send bananas.” https://deadline.com/2021/05/the-lord-of-the-rings-dominic-monaghan-billy-boyd-launch-podcast-1234749628/

Mapping the history of slavery in New York with stickers: "Mainly, our goal is to just educate people about the legacy of slavery and how it persists in the present day. We don’t advocate for changing the names in any way." https://www.guernicamag.com/mapping-the-history-of-slavery-in-new-york/

The “lost game” Castlequest (1980) has been found. Arthur O’Dwyer talked the game’s developers, Mike Holtzman and Mark Kershenblatt, into retrieving the game from the US Copyright Office—the full Fortran source code and data files. https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2021/03/09/castlequest/

The Great Gig in the Sky (featuring planet-destroying asteroid)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU1QPtOZQZU

New Japanese vending machines sell only edible insects. The nine options include deep-fried or dried crickets, locusts, and silkworm chrysalises. https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210502/p2a/00m/0li/001000c

"He made Belgium bigger and France smaller, it's not a good idea," David Lavaux, mayor of the Belgian village of Erquelinnes, told French TV channel TF1. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56978344

Sometimes I don't care if I follow the instructions/recipes -- the book is entertaining just as a "picture book." That's the case for The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Beauty. What fun -- and I learned a lot. #cosobookclub

https://amzn.to/2R5vuJI

My Amazon review of _Smokin' Southern BBQ_

Regional specialties for the BBQ fan. You'd better have a big appetite. #cosobookclub #cooking https://amzn.to/3xVnUlx

The view from the Empire State Building. https://www.earthcam.net/projects/empirestatebuilding/gigapixelpanorama/2021/

There were a lot of surprises on a flight to Hawaii last week, starting with the birth of a baby to a woman who didn't know she was pregnant. Not only did there happen to be a doctor on board the Salt Lake City-Honolulu flight, but there were also three neonatal intensive care nurses -- and all of them immediately got to work." https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/baby-born-on-flight-to-hawaii-trnd/index.html

Let Jacques Pepin teach you how to cook. https://thetakeout.com/the-best-cooking-lessons-from-chef-jacques-pepin-1846720876

Ox-faced children, elderly women sprouting horns, and cloven minds — all features attributed to Edward Jenner’s vaccine against smallpox. https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-mark-of-the-beast-georgian-britains-anti-vaxxer-movement

"Americans cumulatively streamed a total of more than 57 billion minutes of [The Office], nearly 10 million more than its closest rival." https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210427-is-rewatching-old-tv-good-for-the-soul

In recent years, many musicians — including plenty who exist entirely outside of the jam scene — have taken matters into their own hands and launched their own online archives. https://www.insidehook.com/article/music/musician-online-archives

Bob Dole's presidential campaign website is still up and perfectly functional, despite not having updated since November 1996. http://www.dolekemp96.org/main.htm

Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.-- Meg Chittenden

Have you ever wondered how many bubbles there are in your Friday knockoff beer? No? Well scientists apparently have, and in a new study they’ve finally answered the question nobody’s been asking, with a vague “a lot, we guess.” https://newatlas.com/science/how-many-bubbles-beer/