"How did horses become part of life on the Great Plains? And are there pieces of that story that may be missing from today’s popular narratives?"
https://www.sapiens.org/biology/indigenous-human-horse-genomics/

The most important thing to remember about Pub/Sub is that it’s an asynchronous messaging service. Its asynchronous nature enhances application scalability, flexibility, and overall reliability because you can store data until a service is ready to process it.
https://redis.com/blog/publish-subscribe-essentials/

So how do social networks compare when it comes to capturing data in their app: https://tnl.net/2023/07/06/data-capture-in-the-new-social-media-age/

"CSU drone experts have helped develop a way to track songbirds during breeding season in the central and western regions of the Great Basin, an application that shows promise for wildlife biology in general. The university’s Drone Center partnered with researchers at Oregon State University to deploy a new and unobtrusive way to study how birds... respond to environmental change." https://source.colostate.edu/new-drone-application-improves-tracking-for-songbird-research/

A collection listing Achievements that were rejected when creating the GitHub Profile Achievements feature. https://github.com/Flet/rejected-github-profile-achievements

Let’s tumble through this strange-but-true art history mystery that wouldn’t feel out of place in a Wes Anderson film. https://www.messynessychic.com/2023/05/12/how-stuart-little-helped-recover-a-missing-masterpiece-lost-for-almost-a-century/

Recommended beach read: Queen Charlotte
It's the "book of the movie" and probably better than the movie. Works standalone, too. https://amzn.to/3D6NDes

Discussion this morning at the bitranch about “works in a drawer” TVs and console TVs. Led me to this… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUEZkKjwQPc

Alzheimer’s afflicts at least 6 million Americans. While only a subset may benefit from lecanemab, it holds enormous promise for those patients and their families — and for the many Alzheimer’s patients who will follow in the years to come. https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/7/7/23784663/alzheimers-drug-lecanemab-leqembi-full-fda-approval

A time-lapse video tracks the miraculous journey of a seed as it grows into a 1300-pound pumpkin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU7YXMAicK4

71% of US teleworkers said that logging in from home was helping them better manage their work and personal lives, while 56% said they were better able to get the job done and meet deadlines too. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/03/30/about-a-third-of-us-workers-who-can-work-from-home-do-so-all-the-time/

TIL Maricopa County has a respite map that allows people in need of heat relief to search for stations. https://hrn.azmag.gov/

"As many as 30 percent to 40 percent of online reviews are fabricated or otherwise not genuine, consumer advocacy groups and researchers like U.S. PIRG estimate."

You can imagine how much that pisses off people like me, who work hard at creating sincere, useful reviews. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/30/fake-reviews-online-ftc/

An Apollo 11 lunar star chart, surface-flown sheet, and signed history book are the headline lots at the online-only Bonhams July 8 - 18 sale. https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/apollo-11-space-history-paperwork-auction

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -- Mark Twain

Riders at 20 Boston bus stops can now dip into free digital content by using a QR code to browse and borrow audiobooks, eBooks, e-newspapers and e-magazines for all ages. https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/05/12/boston-bus-stops-digital-library

Cats that sailed on ships to catch rodents once had passports signed with their paw prints https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj2Si6X80yo

Marnoch retrieved his shotgun, a tussle ensued, and as Mueller grabbed the barrel, the gun went off. Marnoch had killed him. And all this over a turtle fossil. https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/texas-cliff-chirping-frog-sinister-history/

As part of the Inflation Reduction Act, $1.5 billion will be spent on funding urban tree-planting over the next decade, concentrating on communities that have historically been ignored. https://apnews.com/article/urban-trees-spending-underserved-racism-heat-5ee01297cf215420c7e6c9a0b4d5e87c