estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
You may be aware that we now have at our disposal two of the world's finest emoji: 🦖 and 🦕. Here's how it happened.(2016)
The seven coins, which were found near Mursley in Buckinghamshire, date back to around the 2nd Century. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-66685312
Two men exonerated 30 years after wrongful conviction thanks to retrocomputing enthusiasts and The Bloop Museum extracting data from a damaged floppy disc https://www.patreon.com/posts/78074244
RIP Molly Holzschlag, 'the fairy godmother of the web'
She was a friend. This one hurts.
https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/090523_molly_holzschlag/tucsons-molly-holzschlag-known-as-the-fairy-godmother-web-dead-60/
The physics of hand clapping https://physicsworld.com/a/the-physics-of-hand-clapping-heres-how-to-do-it-best/
The 1981 issue of Byte Magazine, about Artificial Intelligence. I may well have this in my garage, but I'm not going out there in the heat to look. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1981-09/mode/2up
They will not require batteries and will be designed to safely dissolve inside the body once they have fulfilled their purpose. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-scientists-resorbable-biomaterials-implantable-medical.html
"It’s an Autzen Stadium tradition. Anytime the Oregon Ducks score, the Duck mascot does a regimen of pushups to match the team’s current point total." On Saturday, the Ducks scored 81 points. That's a lot of ducking pushups. https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2023/09/the-duck-mascot-did-how-many-pushups-against-portland-state.html
I'd forgotten that I was quoted in a listicle of recommended content marketing books and I didn't see the post until now. My choice probably won't surprise you. https://blog.featured.com/what-content-marketing-books-should-i-read/
"We need something impactful,’” said Caitlyn Yaede, the Tar Heel’s print managing editor. “We need something that’s going to really communicate the gravity of the situation.” https://www.poynter.org/educators-students/2023/the-daily-tar-heel-front-page-newspaper-campus-shooting/
The Early History of Counting: How ancient peoples learned to keep a tally. #longread and worth it https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/early-history-counting
What's on your Labor Day playlist? #cosomusic
Comic Book+ is a database of public domain comic books, comic strips, pulp fiction and other content, mostly from long ago. https://comicbookplus.com
"It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have out of bed (and that working at something you don't want to be doing is a logical impossibility--that we are all self-employed)."--Spider Robinson
He didn’t do it for money or recognition. He rarely sold a photo or a signature in what Bonhams auction house called “arguably the greatest autograph collection ever seen.” https://news.yahoo.com/weird-wonderful-life-l-most-100029090.html
"They did not spend more money on alcohol or drugs, contrary to what people believe, and instead they spent the money on rent, food, housing, transit, furniture, a used car, clothes. It's entirely the opposite of what people think they're going to do with the money." https://bc.ctvnews.ca/a-b-c-study-gave-50-homeless-people-7-500-each-here-s-what-they-spent-it-on-1.6540030
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017