Does this mean fewer people can afford houses? or more? I'm so confused.
https://nypost.com/2022/03/29/avocado-prices-spike-to-24-year-high-after-mexico-import-ban/

See the early pitch decks of 29 unicorn companies (and exited unicorns), including Coinbase (when the price of bitcoin was around $6.25) and Airbnb (when it was AirBed&Breakfast). https://www.cbinsights.com/research/billion-dollar-startup-pitch-decks/

“Behind each plastic bottle cap is a careful engineering process that balances cost, user experience, and manufacturability at massive scale.” I love this just for the visualizations. https://www.scanofthemonth.com/scans/food-packaging

Pair your Jane Austen with a little Chawton Cottage plum pudding. https://lithub.com/in-moderation-and-without-worry-on-jane-austens-use-of-food-as-character/

It’s #TransDayOfVisibility. Sending love to all my trans friends and the greater community. 💕 We’re fighting for you.

I need a Galaxy Quest break. And so do you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2d04uKZiQ8

"By the end of 2022, around 60 DC fast chargers will be available at up to 15 Starbucks stores along the route — approximately one every 100 miles." https://www.trendwatching.com/innovation-of-the-day/through-a-partnership-with-volvo-starbucks-will-offer-ev-charging

If the promise of haptics is so self-evidently appealing, if our digital disconnection makes us ever more skin-hungry, why have haptics devices consistently failed to take hold? Is it simply, as many in the field suggest, a question of not-good-enough tech that will inevitably get better? That’s what Meta and the half-dozen other companies bringing haptic gloves to market are betting on. https://reallifemag.com/cant-touch-this/

Remember when D&D was predicted to lead to hell and damnation? I sure do. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-1980s-media-panic-over-dungeons-dragons

"Northwestern Medicine and Google are collaborating on a project to bring fetal ultrasound to developing countries by combining AI (artificial intelligence), low-cost hand-held ultrasound devices and a smartphone." https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2022/03/teaching-ai-to-read-fetal-ultrasound-in-low-and-middle-income-countries/

Around the world, fruit stickers have become a collector’s item, replete with jazzy typography, vibrant illustrations, and playful branding that goes back over a century. https://www.fastcompany.com/90726540/the-delightful-history-of-fruit-stickers-the-worlds-tiniest-canvases-for-graphic-design

Spot is agile enough to inspect narrow passages and traverse uneven surfaces, and will collect terrain data alongside a laser-scanning drone released to fly over the site and conduct autonomous 3D scans.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/robot-dog-patrols-pompeii-2091246

Near-real-time animations of geostationary satellites https://earth2day.com/TheWall/

"In 1937, she tried out for the leading role in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “The Good Earth.” After she was rejected, she decided that if she couldn’t star in a movie, she would simply make one of her own." https://theconversation.com/after-hollywood-thwarted-anna-may-wong-the-actress-took-matters-into-her-own-hands-175998

A rabbi and a blind man are sitting on a park bench. The rabbi taps the blind man's shoulder and hands him some matzoh. Then there are a few seconds of silence. The blind man taps the rabbi's shoulder and asks, "Who wrote this shit?"

As clunky as they may seem now, these objects were novelties used by covert intelligence operatives in the middle of the twentieth century. More impressive might be a ring camera, similar to the one that appears in the 1985 James Bond flick, A View to a Kill. https://www.artandobject.com/articles/kgb-spy-gadgets-fought-cold-war-go-auction

How to check your email in 1984

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U99LvuN3eQ&t=3s

For at least a couple thousand years, comb-overs were perfectly acceptable and worn by the most powerful men in the world. It was only during the latter half of the 20th century that it all came crashing (flopping?) down. https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/comb-over-history

With little usable land available for renewable energy projects, South Korea is building some of the world’s largest solar power farms on water. https://archive.ph/DlLMG#selection-3075.0-3080.0