It seems like a tremendous risk — traveling thousands of miles into lonely territory to marry a person you met through an advertisement in a newspaper — but it was a gamble that many men and women in the 19th century were willing to take. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2023/06/mail-order-brides/

These recipes are tuned for someone who wants to bring along food to a potluck in a slow cooker. There are good options for that sort of hearty, if convenience-centric midwest food. https://amzn.to/3CvDpny

"Old magazines are cheap time machines, archaeologies of collective desire." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/13/magazine/old-magazines.html

It'd be easy to scan the tweet and move on, but this is genuinely inspirational advice. Trust me. https://twitter.com/govpritzker/status/1668399578155024384

Watch out, Tim!

Remote Irish islands are offering €80,000 to people choosing to move there, as long as you purchase a previously vacant property on one of the islands. https://www.euronews.com/travel/2023/06/14/these-remote-irish-islands-will-pay-you-80000-to-move-there-but-theres-a-catch

The results suggest that video calls could help parrots approximate birds’ communication in the wild, improving their behavior—and, likely, their well-being—in their owners’ homes. https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/04/21/parrots-talking-video-calls/

Just as a LEGO set consists of multiple pieces that you put together to build different structures, microservices are small, independent components that you can combine to build larger applications. This is a stark departure from the traditional monolithic architecture, where an application is developed as a single unit, often leading to less flexible and harder-to-maintain monolithic apps.
https://redis.com/blog/microservices-and-containers/

"I don't really know what I do as an editor. I've never thought about it, really, except when being interviewed. Because I just do it. It's organic for me, whereas writing is not organic. Which makes it a challenge for me that editing isn't. I'm a fixer. See, my nature is to make things better of what they are." --Robert Gottlieb, who just died at age 92. from a 2011 interview

https://www.salon.com/2011/04/27/robert_gottlieb_interview/

An ongoing series of population density maps of states, rivers, and coastlines https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/01/spencer-schien-population-maps/

Sweden is building the world's first permanent electric road that will charge EVs while they're on the move.
https://electrek.co/2023/05/12/sweden-permanent-electric-road/

Any geek I know would read this story and say aloud, "Bujold's Vorkosigan universe!" https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/234465

Between 1999 and 2020, the rate of deaths from heart attacks fell from 87 per 100,000 people to 38 per 100,000 people, and racial disparities narrowed by nearly half. https://www.acc.org/About-ACC/Press-Releases/2023/02/22/21/30/Heart-Attack-Deaths-Drop-Over-Past-Two-Decades

if you need an excuse to remind writers, "Avoid cliches like the plague," now you have science to back it up.

I recommend this book to all my writer friends -- whether they create fiction or nonfiction.
https://amzn.to/3qLYacb

Some people are much more likely than others to become members of the reading class. https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/09/love-reading-books-leisure-pleasure/598315/

Atari just announced a brand-new physical cartridge for the 2600 console. https://www.engadget.com/mr-run-and-jump-will-be-the-first-official-cartridge-for-the-atari-2600-since-1990-110010790.html

On spoiled brats, ankle biters, and other holy terrors
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-for-other-peoples-children-spoiled-kids-brats

Sir Paul McCartney says he has employed artificial intelligence to help create what he calls "the final Beatles record."
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65881813

Overheard: "He's so crooked that if he ate a nail, he'd shit a corkscrew."

(Sharing this without regard to the object of the criticism. I just thought it was an awesome expression.)