In the 400 or so years since this bizarre event – Strasbourg's so-called "dance plague" – occurred, many theories have been proffered to explain what exactly happened. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220512-the-people-who-danced-themselves-to-death

The countries with the lowest abortion rates have one thing in common: access to safe, affordable abortion. https://reasonstobecheerful.world/want-fewer-abortions-legalize-them/

Restoration of a 1959 IBM-1620 computer ... and an Arduino to run it. https://www.pictorialism.com/IBM1620.html

Data shows that managers are leaving their jobs at elevated levels, and that even though resignation rates for workers overall have declined from their peak, lots of people are still quitting their jobs. https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/7/7/23186233/managers-great-resignation-quit-job

I JUST SAID YES TO A JOB OFFER.

Yay me!

"Lots of things we all take for granted didn’t exist. The Internet existed but not the Web. Software was delivered to customers on tapes or floppy disks. The CD burner was still a few years in the future." https://dev.jimgrey.net/2022/07/05/working-in-the-software-industry-circa-1989/

If you can't decide what to watch tonight, maybe this will help. https://www.movieofthenight.com

The Oregon Theater Project “aims to document the history of moviegoing in Oregon – why people went to the movies, where people watched them, and what people thought about them,” with a current focus on the silent film era. https://oregontheaterproject.uoregon.edu

The seventh-annual competition garnered more than 20,000 entries from 115 countries that capture a wildly diverse array of behaviors and habitats. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/06/bird-photographer-of-the-year-2022/

CP/M is open source https://retronic.us/cp-m-is-now-really-open-source/

The economists found that on average, the children of immigrants were exceptionally good at moving up the economic ladder. Worth it for the cool animation.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/07/11/opinion/immigrants-success-america.html

It's another summer sundress review!

This one is nice, not wow. But it does have good, deep pockets, big enough to hold a smartphone.

https://amzn.to/3IycWIb

This case study shows five user experience improvements that could help save more lives by improving Amber emergency alerts.
https://growth.design/case-studies/amber-alert-ux

Twenty-four authors and creators donated books to the Authors for Abortion Access auction, which runs from July 12–26. Proceeds benefit the National Network of Abortion Funds Collective Power Fund and Keep Our Clinics. Among those who donated items for auction are Olivia Blake, Neil Gaiman, Chloe Gong, V.E. Schwab, Sabaa Tahir, and Martha Wells.https://www.32auctions.com/organizations/99527/auctions/127155

What we can learn from technology that’s designed to be stepped on
https://uxdesign.cc/5-design-lessons-from-guitar-pedals-782d41f07d1b

Of COURSE that's a thing.

Assuming that you want to train your cat to sit on a computer, that is.

(Fortunately for my budget, apparently it is not available at the moment.)

https://amzn.to/3c9Mf0F

"The traditional gentry and imperial officials long resisted the popularity of chili peppers, believing that they were a coarse and unhealthy food."- Cao Yu, scholar https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1007963/how-the-chili-pepper-conquered-china

On the value of copy editors (2008) https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/19/AR2008061902920.html

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." --EB White, whose birthday it is today.

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