Decades before “Zoom fatigue” broke our spirits, the so-called computer revolution brought with it a world of pain previously unknown to humankind. https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dda7/how-the-personal-computer-broke-the-human-body

Exploring the software that flies SpaceX rockets and Starships https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/27/dont-push-that-button-exploring-the-software-that-flies-spacex-starships/

In case you need a reason to feel good about the world, here are several reasons to smile.
https://medium.com/future-crunch/99-goodnews-2021-2492e4fcacfb

"Thirty years ago, when Li Jingwei was four years old, a neighbour abducted him from his home village in China's Yunnan province and sold him to a child trafficking ring. Now he has been reunited with his mother after drawing a map of his home village from his memories of three decades ago and sharing it on a popular video-sharing app."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/03/abducted-son-li-jingwei-finds-family-map-of-village-china

TIL the word Sitzfleisch (ZITS–flysh): “Chair glue.” The German word for the ability to sit through something boring or complex for a considerable amount of time.

"The rat rides at the top of the ball, wearing a harness to keep it from slipping off. A large curved monitor sits right in front of the rat to display the virtual environment, which is a custom DOOM map." https://hackaday.com/2021/12/29/rats-learn-to-play-doom-in-this-automated-vr-arena/

"Yes, I realize that this is not the first time we’ve announced the death of the company or its devices (and, for reasons I’ll explain below, it likely won’t be the last) but this is a very definite ending for legacy BlackBerry hardware." https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/31/22861141/blackberry-legacy-devices-dead-lose-functionality-january-4th

Benjamin Franklin was an early advocate of the modern to-do list. Each morning America’s Founding Father jotted down tasks and asked himself: “What good shall I do this day?”

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https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/04/12/are-you-into-productivity-porn-or-yak-shaving

Free birth control for all women under 25 is now available in France, expanding a scheme targeting under-18s to ensure young women don't stop taking contraception because they cannot afford it. https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20211231-france-introduces-free-birth-control-for-all-women-aged-18-25

"Freelance cartographer Hal Jespersen has created more than 200 maps for various Wikipedia articles on battles in the U.S. Civil War." https://www.maproomblog.com/2021/12/hal-jespersens-civil-war-maps/

The miniature gold book is thought to be connected to King Richard III, and could be worth an estimated £100,000 ($134,500) https://news.artnet.com/art-world/metal-detectorist-gold-book-discovery-2038398

From discs in the sky to faces in toast, learn to weigh evidence skeptically without becoming a closed-minded naysayer https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-think-about-what-is-and-what-isnt-weird-or-wacky

A team from UNSW wants to use Luyten 3D printing technology to build a house on the Moon.
https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/art-architecture-design/lunar-architecture-small-step-3d-printers-giant-leap-humankind

Whirling discs, moving slides, multiple lenses – there seemed to be no end of ways to create and project moving images, some inventions being more cumbersome than others. http://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/silents-are-golden-eidoloscopes-praxinoscopes-and-other-very-early-cinematic-inventions/

"Unstructured groups may be very effective in getting women to talk about their lives; they aren't very good for getting things done. It is when people get tired of 'just talking' and want to do something more that the groups flounder." https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

BeOS Intro (1996) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz3IRWM18zM

We've recently had long-awaited adaptions of several classic science fiction and fantasy stories hit our screens and the good times are set to continue. Here are some highlights of big sci-fi and fantasy stories we can look forward to in 2022. https://newatlas.com/home-entertainment/best-sci-fi-fantasy-tv-film-coming-2022-future-highlights/