In what's being hailed as an important first for chemistry, scientists have developed a new technology that can selectively rearrange atomic bonds within a single molecule, which could open up exciting possibilities in molecular machinery. https://newatlas.com/science/chemistry-breakthrough-first-control-atomic-bonds-molecule/

Although some instruments of the medieval period remain familiar to us, there are many that have been lost in the mists of time.
https://www.classical-music.com/features/instruments/medieval-musical-instruments/

Jell-O once gave middle-class consumers access to a luxurious food that had only been accessible to the wealthy. Then Jell-O turned into a salad, a staple dish of the mid-twentieth century, and morphed into a fun snack for kids. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/19/business/jell-o-america-dessert-ctpr/index.html

“Gone were the days of coloring the objects used in daily life with materials the average person might recognize in their local landscape. The age of the chemistry lab as color-maker had dawned.” https://atmos.earth/natural-dyes-synthetic-color-toxic/

These five projects have created interactive maps, sometimes making use of the medieval maps themselves or combining them with historic sources. https://www.medievalists.net/2022/11/maps-explore-medieval-britain/

5 stars to _Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking_ by Fuchsia Dunlop
(You can tell I've spent the weekend catching up on writing Amazon reviews.) #cookbook
https://amzn.to/3GQn7cw

Recreating sci-fi terminals using VHS (a tool for creating recordings of command-line tools) https://blog.ldodds.com/2022/11/08/recreating-sci-fi-terminals-using-vhs/

My Amazon review of _Indian for Everyone: 100 Easy, Healthy Dishes the Whole Family Will Love_ by Hari Ghotra
Simple Indian cooking in a range of styles. #cooking #cookbook
https://amzn.to/3u3Ea3a

The codex contains new details about the earliest legal structures in Mexico after Spanish colonization and the way Indigenous people used Spanish laws to defend their rights. https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-of-congress-acquires-rare-codex-from-central-mexico/s/7875f341-1e96-46da-92f1-9dca4a5648a6

The codex contains new details about the earliest legal structures in Mexico after Spanish colonization and the way Indigenous people used Spanish laws to defend their rights. https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-of-congress-acquires-rare-codex-from-central-mexico/s/7875f341-1e96-46da-92f1-9dca4a5648a6

Are you into Christmas movies? Like to cook? The Christmas Movie Cookbook might be for you. Might. It's a a perfectly serviceable cookbook, but several of the connections between movie and recipe are a stretch. #cooking #movies
https://amzn.to/3V74sxq

This is a splendid article about the mistakes that companies make with social media -- and thought leadership in general.
https://www.animalz.co/blog/twitter-for-thought-leadership

Check your bag before you fly home! https://nypost.com/2022/11/22/tsa-finds-cat-in-checked-baggage-cats-out-of-the-bag/

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One way to support someone’s dreams is to give them an instruction book on how to succeed in that career. I wish I had Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer by @straczynski when I got started. https://amzn.to/3i0S57u

One way to support someone's dreams is to give them an instruction book on how to succeed in that career. I wish I had _Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer_ by @straczynski when I got started. https://amzn.to/3i0S57u

Or perhaps your family likes things that are useful rather than Oh Wow. I like these cotton storage baskets; they look nice, fold up easily, and put a teeny bit of order into my chaos.
https://amzn.to/3TStGOD

Maybe you just want to give folks a practical set of coffee mugs. These have become my go-to mugs; I like 'em enough to dig them out of the dishwasher rather than take a clean one off the shelf.
https://amzn.to/3Eq8U2Y