estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
What if WW1 never happened? How would you have governed the US on its way to becoming a global power without The Great War?
https://www.supremacy1914.com/
'An allergen-specific inhibitor devised by researchers at the University of Notre Dame and the Indiana University School of Medicine has successfully prevented potentially life-threatening allergic responses to peanuts.' https://news.nd.edu/news/researchers-successfully-prevent-peanut-allergic-reactions-in-mice-blocking-onset-in-its-tracks/
A thought: Granting someone the label MAGA lets them define the term, with honor. I'm thinking of replacing MAGA, in conversation, with the more accurate "reactionary" to better identify their values.
"I'm a proud MAGA" says something different from "I'm a proud reactionary."
An American couple is driving through Canada and stops at a gas station to fuel up.
As the man goes into the station to pay, his wife calls out to him, “Ask them where we are!”
So the husband walks in, pays, and asks, “By the way, where are we?”
The attendant answers, “Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.”
The man goes back to his car and the wife asks, “Where are we?”
“He doesn't speak English," replies the husband.
Well THIS sucks.
"Gilbert Ortega Jr. faces three misdemeanor counts after the incident in front of Gilbert Ortega Native American Galleries on Tuesday. The confrontation was caught on video and shows Ortega yelling at the performers, calling them insulting names and using racist language."
Damn, I used to like that store. Not anymore.
"I don’t want my bots to be on the same platform that has a hard time banning Nazis." --Neil Freeman, developer of nyc combined sewers bot
https://gothamist.com/news/it-may-be-lights-out-for-some-of-nyc-best-twitter-bots
Smashed turtle shells are helping paleontologists figure out the original depth of buried items. Even if erosion wiped away soil layers on top of sites, the flattened armor doesn’t lie. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/science/turtle-shells-fossils-paleontology.html
Get awarded for advancing transparency: Entries for the Brechner Freedom of Information Award are now open. A $3,000 cash award rewards journalism by a U.S.-based news organization or collaboratives that advance the public’s right to know. https://www.jou.ufl.edu/2023/01/30/entry-period-for-3000-brechner-freedom-of-information-award-now-open-2/
We compare GATTACA’s fictional technologies with reality’s state of the art, assessing the legal protections afforded in today’s society against GATTACA’s dystopian future in which personal freedom and privacy rights are substantially curtailed by genomic innovations. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-022-01242-5
"It’s this type of unpredictable spirit — the project, like its Album of the Year–winning predecessor, Raising Sand, is rooted in bluegrass and country traditions — that has guided Plant for the majority of his career." https://www.vulture.com/2023/01/robert-plant-led-zeppelin-best-music-superlatives.html
A Cat Lover’s Guide to Understanding JSON Databases
How do JSON databases function, and what value do they bring to application developers? Maybe examples from a pet cat’s point of view can put things into perspective. #JSON
https://redis.com/blog/what-are-json-databases/
Lost and found: Codebreakers decipher 50+ letters of Mary, Queen of Scots
"The team described in a new paper published in the journal Cryptologia how they broke Mary's cipher, then decoded and translated several of the letters."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/lost-and-found-code-breakers-decipher-50-letters-of-mary-queen-of-scots/
Closer to Johannes Vermeer: An interactive exhibition of Vermeer's paintings, narrated by Stephen Fry https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/johannes-vermeer
The book The Linux Command Line is available for free download under a Creative Commons license. https://www.linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
Apple //c Scene From ’80s Bond Film “A View to a Kill” Perfectly Re-Created With Applesoft BASIC (2020) https://bytecellar.com/2020/04/29/apple-c-scene-from-80s-bond-film-a-view-to-a-kill-perfectly-re-created-with-applesoft-basic/
My Amazon review of _Half American: the epic story of African Americans fighting World War II at home and abroad_
I knew _nothing_ about the perspective of Black Americans in World War II. I am appalled by what I learned. And I'm glad I learned it.
Back when Hollywood’s glass ceiling was nearly shatterproof, Charlotte Brown cracked it with 'Rhoda': "Producers started dipping their toes into the water and saying, 'Maybe I should get me one of those women writers and try it.'"
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/charlotte-brown-first-woman-running-network-tv-show-1234950808/
"Unfortunately, Borgzinner was saddled—as are we all—by the conventional wisdom of his day. In 1967, that meant that when he looked around the San Francisco poster scene, he saw only the usual suspects." https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-untold-story-of-an-artists-rock-poster-roots/
Julius: An open source re-implementation of Caesar III https://github.com/bvschaik/julius
The 2020 discovery of an ancient villa in Britain uncovered the most important Roman mosaic found in the last century. An archaeologist explains how the mosaic offers an alternate ending to a grim tale from the Trojan War.
https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/roman-mosaic-trojan-war/
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017