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Fossilized plants can provide much information about the planet’s geography and evolution. Researchers have discovered an ancient chili pepper from Colorado that may upend our understanding of when and where the plant originated. https://newatlas.com/biology/chili-pepper-fossil-upends-evolutionary-timeline

"Mechanic and repair trade programs saw an enrollment increase of 11.5% from spring 2021 to 2022, according to the National Student Clearinghouse. In construction trades, enrollment grew 19.3%, and in culinary programs, it increased 12.7%. Meanwhile, overall enrollment declined 7.8% at public two-year colleges, and 3.4% at public four-year institutions."

While some students skip college, trade programs are booming.
https://apnews.com/article/community-college-trade-school-075d7e7e2b0dc659920a9be6d054c8b2

The Institute of Unfinished Research has concluded that 6 out of 10 people

Your awww du jour https://mastodon.me.uk/@garius/110270095612514446

Those who do not remember Usenet are condemned to repeat it.

The Borscht Belt Museum "is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the Borscht Belt resort era and its history as a refuge from bigotry, the cradle of stand-up comedy and a cultural catalyst that left deep imprints on America."

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/a-borscht-belt-museum-is-opening-in-the-catskills-042523

"Little League season is underway and one New Jersey town is introducing an ingenious new rule to crack down on misbehavior after parents were caught on camera berating and yelling at referees and umpires at youth games." https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/town-forces-argumentative-parents-umpires-league-games-98810329

As @sjvn observed at #KubeConEU: Database vendors need to become more active in the cloud-native community — particularly to counter the scaling issues related to #Kubernetes and stateful applications.
https://redis.com/blog/kubecon-database-trends/

I bought 500 Paleo Recipes ten years ago, when I first started with a paleo diet. It's a book I turn to regularly -- like Mark Bittman's "How To Cook Everything" for paleo folks.
https://amzn.to/3KYTsyb

A decade ago, the Netherlands began building a national network of bicycle garages integrated with rail stations. Here’s how that investment has paid off. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-20/how-the-dutch-investment-in-bike-parking-paid-off

Award-winning American children’s author and artist Tomie dePaola is to be honored by the United States Post Office with his own “forever” stamp. https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/forever-stamps-tomie-depaola-strega-nona/

Where was your address N million years ago?
https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#240

Scientists have unveiled the latest surprising discovery made just three metres beneath the well-beaten pavement in the heart of the French capital – 50 previously undisturbed graves found just a stone’s throw from a popular metro stop.
The discovery offers a rare glimpse into what life was like in the Roman town of Lutetia, which existed nearly 2,000 years ago where Paris now stands. https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/04/24/no-one-has-seen-it-since-antiquity-archaeologists-uncover-ancient-necropolis-near-paris-me

They put it in writing?

They put a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 *in writing*? https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ebag/texas-ag-transgender-dress-code-memo

A few recent calls from Texas to Japan took a groundbreaking detour—to a satellite in low Earth orbit and back. https://www.pcmag.com/news/att-ast-spacemobile-claim-first-smartphone-to-satellite-phone-call

Turn the sound on! #emergencycute https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cq-9IOTKGHB/

The Museum of Failure’s latest exhibition is an epic portrait of failures big and small—from the Ford Edsel to CNN+.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90873149/the-upside-of-bad-design

"Rather than trying to control complexity in large systems, we can instead embrace and use this complexity to model the behaviour of the system, and then to create the correct incentives that help the individual parts succeed while also benefiting the overall system itself." https://sookocheff.com/post/systems/what-complex-systems-can-teach-us-about-building-software/