In 2014, researchers from Georgia Tech decided to figure out if bigger animals that have bigger bladders pee longer than smaller animals. https://twistedsifter.com/2022/07/do-big-animals-take-longer-to-pee/
Nondisclosure agreements keep harassment allegations from reaching the public and are used by U.S. corporations to purchase victim silence.
https://19thnews.org/2022/06/bill-ndas-sexual-harassment-abuse-workplace-companies
Amazon Prime members can now order food from Grubhub without a delivery fee. The offer for Grubhub+ is good for one year, after which Prime members will automatically be charged the current $9.99 monthly rate for the service.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/amazon-just-eat-takeaway-grubhub-deal-free-delivery-rcna36910
Joel Navaroli’s snlarchives.net aims to catalog and cross-reference every episode, cast member, host, character, sketch, impression, and other aspects of Saturday Night Live’s 47-and-counting seasons. http://www.snlarchives.net
I got in a conversation with someone whose company gives remote employees a regular stipend — $150/quarter or some such — to improve their home office setup. After a while, he said, he’d filled in the stuff he needed, such as webcam, monitor, chair, headphones.
That made me curious. If your company gave you money to outfit the home office (or you wish they did), what would you spend it on? After the usual suspects mentioned above, that is?
The FBI wrote to its Internet Crime Complaint Center that it has received multiple complaints of people using stolen information and deepfaked video and voice to apply to remote tech jobs.
https://gizmodo.com/deepfakes-remote-work-job-applications-fbi-1849118604
Closer to Van Eyck: a website where you can inspect the Ghent Altarpiece painting down to the last millimeter, along with infrared and radiography views to see the effects of the restoration. http://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be
Let's see, to how many of these do I already subscribe? https://draft.dev/learn/the-ultimate-list-of-developer-newsletters
What may be the world's most complicated boundary centres on a narrow ribbon of bike trail. Its history offers a window into a region that at times has been the battleground of Europe and an area where culture and geography intersect. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220628-the-worlds-weirdest-border
Side Hustle Stack is a free resource to find platform-based work, ranging from gig work and side hustles to platforms that help you start a small business that can grow.
https://sidehustlestack.co
“The Afro caught everybody off guard,” he told Ebony magazine in 1970. “Even Black barbers and beauticians in America were caught lacking the knowledge as well as the desire to style a decent Afro.”
I loved, LOVED afros. I never wanted them to fall out of style.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/style/willie-lee-morrow-dead.html
The spectral imaging system collects images in many wavelengths of light to reveal faded text that is otherwise undetectable to the human eye.
https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2022/06/museums-and-libraries-recover-historic-texts-with-low-cost-spectral-imaging-system/
"My years of experience as a Dungeon Master have taught me many valuable lessons, and many of those lessons are specifically applicable to my writing." (2013) http://litreactor.com/columns/7-things-dungeons-dragons-taught-me-about-storytelling
“I thought that was a real great character study,” Redford recalled, referring to the WASP, Republican, Yale graduate Woodward and the Jewish, liberal, long-haired Bernstein. “Two guys that couldn’t be more different. Different religions, different politics, different everything. And yet they had to work together, and they didn’t like each other very much. I said, ‘Boy, that feels like a good, interesting little black-and-white film to me.’” https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/interactive/2022/all-the-presidents-men-robert-redford-woodward-bernstein/
“So I got the box of bones from Greece and didn’t know what to do at first – bury them? Cremate them? Put them in the attic? All seemed like poor ways to memorialize someone who got me into heavy metal.” https://www.guitarworld.com/news/man-builds-guitar-out-of-his-dead-uncles-skeleton-uses-it-to-play-black-metal
Ultimate bubblegum but I have to reach for the volume knob https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BKKaKT_dtM
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