This story makes me feel better about the world.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/02/07/claybourne-elder-broadway-stranger-ticket/

Jimmy Carter's dream of making Guinea Worm the third ever disease to be fully eradicated is within reach. Only 14 cases were recorded in 2021. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/26/guinea-worm-cases-drop-to-14-close-to-jimmy-carters-goal-of-0

Meet a very, very old lungfish called Methuselah. https://apnews.com/article/oldest-fish-oddities-science-40b57f6ac79c0318f370297c80e71ab2

"The weathered pages furnish the thinnest slivers of the lives led by Chinese people in nineteenth-century California." https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-dark-purpose-behind-a-town-constables-journal

So apparently this is a thing. And also an irresistible story. https://www.askamanager.org/2022/01/the-new-hire-who-showed-up-is-not-the-same-person-we-interviewed.html

Women in tech and business: What was the best advice you got about promoting yourself at work? and the follow-up: How did it change your behavior?
(I'm writing a blog post and would love to include your input, either with or without attribution.)

"While book banning, or attempted book banning, has recently become something of a theme around the country, this small-town mayor seems to have inadvertently picked a fight with the wrong crowd." https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdpen/mississippi-furry-book-banning

The race to reconnect Tonga's 827km long communication cable is on, after the recent volcanic eruption. A whole lot of fascinating stuff I didn't know, and great visualizations. Worth your time! https://graphics.reuters.com/TONGA-VOLCANO/znpnejbjovl/

How to read between the lines of an illustration celebrating Angelou’s impact and legacy. https://www.fastcompany.com/90715936/the-fascinating-design-story-behind-the-new-maya-angelou-quarters

OverDrive reported some 506 million digital lends (e-book, audiobook, and digital magazine) in 2021, a 16% increase over 2020. The data comes from more than 76,000 libraries and schools in 94 countries worldwide. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/88220-overdrive-reports-more-than-half-a-billion-digital-library-loans-in-2021.html

Chuckling (again) at this "how to give a tutorial tutorial" http://perl.plover.com/yak/presentation/

If the enormous growth of scent companies suggests anything, it’s that shoppers can be led by the nose. https://www.morningbrew.com/retail/stories/2022/01/26/smell-that-scents-are-a-key-part-of-store-s-identity-even-in-covid

The mile-long stretch of public road, which will be designed to wirelessly charge electric vehicles while they are stationary and in motion, is expected to be complete by 2023. https://www.crainsdetroit.com/infrastructure/first-wireless-ev-charging-road-us-be-built-detroit

After the influenza pandemic of 1918-19, which similarly hit the movies hard, the film industry responded with massive structural change and a booming return to filmgoing. Will our current environment and its aftermath spur the same sort of change? https://daily.jstor.org/the-1918-flu-pandemics-impact-on-movie-theaters/

Paste the URL to any recipe, click submit, and it’ll return literally JUST the recipe- no ads, no life story of the writer, no nothing EXCEPT the recipe. https://www.justtherecipe.com

"Two technologies allowed these limits to be exceeded. The first was the metal skeleton (first iron, later steel), which dramatically increased the height that structures could physically be built.... The second was the elevator." https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/why-skyscrapers-are-so-short/

We have a new record. An almost 500-mile-long lightning bolt crossed three US states. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60221521

Mood

Rumble rumble rumble mutiny mutiny mutiny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qiqdb518wZ8

"Hope is applicable even when the glass is only a third full or has nothing in it at all. That’s because true hope isn’t about living in a fantasy world; it’s about living in this one. For instance, it doesn’t deny suffering and pain." https://aeon.co/essays/true-hope-takes-a-hard-look-at-reality-then-makes-a-plan

Pamphlet detailing the recommended procedures for resuscitating "persons apparently dead from drowning", which included blowing tobacco smoke up the bum and the use of electricity. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/humane-society/