Sleep Retreats Are the Latest Wellness Travel Trend
So often we've gone on vacation to exotic locations and spent the time sleeping!
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/sleep-retreats-wellness-travel-trend

The Hidden World of Undersea Cables: The internet largely runs beneath the oceans. Here’s how it works—and why it matters.
Every three days, on average, one of the world’s undersea cables experiences a problem—it gets cut, or caught on something, and needs to be repaired.
https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-hidden-world-of-undersea-cables

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A team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences claims one of its cloned monkeys has lived more than two years, the longest any cloned rhesus macaque has survived yet. https://www.sciencealert.com/a-cloned-rhesus-monkey-is-still-alive-after-2-years

Cooklang – Recipe Markup Language https://cooklang.org/

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The art of high performance computing https://theartofhpc.com/

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Uber has decided to shutter Drizly, an alcohol delivery service it bought three years ago for $1.1 billion.

(Insert clever comment about drinking up the profits?)
https://www.axios.com/2024/01/15/uber-drizly-acquisition-shutters

When published in 1939, Alva Johnston suggested that there was perhaps no greater literary creation within the 20th century than Tarzan, brought to life by Edgar Rice Burroughs, a man who preferred his stories to society. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/11/how-to-become-a-great-writer/

Privacy and AI policies to watch in 2024: In 2024, policymakers and businesses will face significant discussions around AI regulation and data privacy. https://www.worklife.news/technology/privacy-and-ai-policies-to-watch-in-2024

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Uncovering the Forgotten Female Astronomers of Yerkes Observatory... whose work as astronomers was forgotten, but came to light recently from a photo of an Einstein visit.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/yerkes-observatory-female-astronomers

These intense chess photographs are fantastic. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/19/sport/maria-emelianova-art-chess-photography-spt-intl/index.html

Today I saw someone use the term "rage farming" for "posting shit to drum up dissent and anger" and now I'm planning to use that term.

What are tech workers' heart's desires? I itemized 40 of them, back in 2017. ...Yeah, I still like this one. https://web.archive.org/web/20230529224227/https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/the-it-worker-bucket-list-40-things-tech-pros-wish-for-1705.html

From the post: 'The main thing I find interesting here is how women and men perceive these words differently: about 50% of men (+ other) think that “Java guys” is gender neutral, while only 25% of women do.' https://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/27/guys-guys-guys/

It was on this day in 1831 that Victor Hugo finished his novel Notre-Dame de Paris, known to us as The Hunchback of Notre Dame. ... Hugo was asked to compose a poem in honor of Louis-Philippe, France's first constitutional king... Because of the distraction, Victor Hugo had to keep asking his publishers for deadline extensions for The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Once he finally sat down to write it, he finished it in only four months. https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2007%252F01%252F15.html

My new apartment’s most aggravating feature: Latch smart locks
https://www.curbed.com/2024/01/latch-smart-lock-nyc-apartments-aggravating-feature.html

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