Microbes can give cheese its cheesiness, no cow required. https://modernfarmer.com/2023/08/the-future-of-cheese

In case you want a Zoom background that makes it looks like you're getting a mug shot in Fulton county...

My friend (who made this) adds, “Don’t forget to bleach out your lighting.”

NASA released the first data maps from its new instrument launched to space earlier this year, which now is successfully transmitting information about major air pollutants over North America. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-shares-first-images-from-us-pollution-monitoring-instrument

To be clear, there was no gay "content" in the speech. There were no visceral descriptions of gay sex, let alone *gasp* drag queens. What there was was a factual recounting of history and truth. https://boingboing.net/2023/08/25/dont-say-gay-georgia-school-cancels-batman-comic-historians-speaking-event.html

Literature map: The more people like an author and another author, the closer together they move. https://www.literature-map.com/

"It can potentially transform laparoscopic surgeries by enabling tactile feedback for surgeons, allowing more precise manipulation of patient tissues." https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/236553

Guess the right time and location of a historical photo.
I sucked at this. https://timeguessr.com

It seems crazy to say it, but the film’s Deltas — a fraternity of proud, self-defined losers — became role models for a generation obsessed with winning. You could argue we’re still living with the fallout. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2023/08/15/animal-house-national-lampoon-anniversary/

Today's Google Doodle will make you smile. https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-the-first-landing-on-the-moons-south-pole

AT&T's predictions of 2014 in 1994 were spot on... except for the AT&T part. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PJcABbtvtA

Building an LLM-based application? Here's a tech stack that might help you.

https://redis.com/blog/building-llm-applications-with-redis-on-googles-vertex-ai-platform/

For most bonsai practitioners, “styling” a tree is a question of which branches to cut off and how to bend those which remain, using metal wire, so that the plant’s over-all form elicits a feeling of something ancient and wild. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/21/the-beautiful-brutal-world-of-bonsai

The Judyrecords website gives you a great search tool for finding any text, including your own name or the name of someone else, in 720 million US court records. https://www.judyrecords.com

Text-based record covers https://socks-studio.com/2022/10/16/this-is-a-record-cover/

"While animals can sometimes cause power outages, 'fish are not on the list of frequent offenders,' a company spokesperson said." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/22/new-jersey-fish-hawk-power-outage

To explore the relationship between protected region size and product price, Gero Laurenz Höhn et al. have collected the prices of protected and non-protected European ham from dozens of supermarket websites. https://dataverse.nl/dataset.xhtml

A group of Motherboard folks just spun up their own new independent outlet https://www.404media.co/welcome-to-404-media/

The new program utilizes GPS-based “geo-targeting” to show readers the books that have been banned in their area, with e-book versions available to borrow digitally. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/92809-dpla-launches-geo-targeted-banned-book-club-via-palace-e-book-app.html

Train Data Extravaganza, by which I mean data-about-trains https://carto.graou.info/48.6/3/7/0/0

Remember how I mentioned, a while back, that I was working on the Pass It On Awards to support women creating projects that benefit women and girls in tech? Here’s the projects that won. I dare say you’ll be inspired by a few of them. https://systers.org/pass-it-on-award-winners/