The pandemic sped up changes that were already afoot; even before Covid, more than 1,000 colleges had made the tests optional. https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2021/college-admissions-testing-pros-cons

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This is lots of fun! "Talbert offers his view that the original was likely a way for Romans to demonstrate, above all, the scope and power of their empire." https://aeon.co/videos/why-did-the-romans-create-a-massive-entirely-impractical-map-of-their-empire

1940s Catalin radios https://www.thekeencollection.org/artworks/categories/11/

After the Queen’s record-breaking reign, unpicking her name, image and iconography from the fabric of national life in the UK and across the Commonwealth will take much longer. These are some of the things that will need to change. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/08/queen-death-cash-stamps-flags

An international team of astronomers has discovered an exoplanet that could be completely covered in water.
https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/224257

I admit that I'm looking forward to the Weird Al movie.

Also, Daniel Radcliffe is 33?! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/08/movies/daniel-radcliffe-weird-al-yankovic-movie.html

“Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit… what a ride!’” ~Hunter S. Thompson

If you happen to be shopping for more coffee mugs... well, I gave these 5 stars. https://amzn.to/3DfOGu6

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Studies show that good rest is not idleness. The most restorative forms of rest are active, not passive. Further, rest is a skill: with practice, you can learn to get better at it, and to get more out of it. https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-rest-well-and-enjoy-a-more-creative-sustainable-life

"Instead of experiencing just one life, the book-lover can experience hundreds or even thousands of lives. He can live any kind of adventure in the world. Books are his time machine into the past and also into the future."--Gene Roddenberry https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/i-consider-reading-the-greatest-bargain

A LIFE photo essay from 1956 shows that while the power of the cellphone is new, the phenomenon of teenagers being addicted to phones goes back to the days of the rotary dial. https://www.life.com/lifestyle/theres-quaint-and-then-theres-a-story-on-phone-obsessed-teens-from-1956/

The game was a popular alternative to Bridge and, as Parker Brothers stated in the US introduction, became “a French Card Game Craze.” http://www.codex99.com/design/28.html

How Totino’s pizza rolls beat the global supply chain crisis https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/business/totinos-pizza-rolls-ingredients.html

What a fun and useful site! Tell it your route, and it suggests offbeat stops along the way.
https://makemydrivefun.com
Also
http://www.roadtrippers.com is on the same theme

"Smallwood now believes mind-wandering is rarely a waste of time. It is merely our brain trying to get a bit of work done when it is under the impression that there isn’t much else going on." https://knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2022/science-wandering-mind

"Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play."--Willie Nelson

Creating software to reconstruct one-line drawings
https://schollz.com/blog/one-line/