The recently announced TV adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast will follow the author as a young writer in 1920s Paris, before the fame. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hemingways-a-moveable-feast-works-as-tv-series-1231429

My Amazon review of _Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived_

4 stars #cosobookclub

This is a whole bunch of fun, even if some of the material is dated.

https://amzn.to/31J4cs9

Nuking a grape produces sparks of plasma, as plenty of YouTube videos document. Now physicists think they can explain how that energy builds up. https://www.wired.com/story/why-a-grape-turns-into-a-fireball-in-a-microwave/

"The hard truth is that English, like all other languages, is constantly evolving. It is the speed of the change, within our own short lives, that creates the illusion of decline." https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/15/why-its-time-to-stop-worrying-about-the-decline-of-the-english-language

After hundreds of years, a door has opened again in Florence, Italy. It’s only one foot tall and eight inches wide—just large enough for a flask of wine to pass through. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/florence-wine-windows

NASA giving away Apollo-era Saturn rocket to anyone who can carry it out https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/08/14/apollo-saturn-rocket/

NULL license plate not such a bright idea https://knrs.iheart.com/content/2019-08-12-clever-vanity-license-plate-backfires-on-man-winds-up-with-tons-of-tickets

Oxford University Press offers tips on "how to construct palindromes." https://blog.oup.com/2019/08/how-to-construct-palindromes/

"Like all analog formats, cassette tapes decay over time. In fact, it’s likely yours have already lost some fidelity. If you want to save those old mixtapes and home recordings, it’s best to digitize them right away. Thankfully, this is an easy process. You don’t have to be a computer whiz or an audiophile to follow this simple guide. And you shouldn’t have to spend any more than $25 on this project (it’ll probably cost even less)." https://www.reviewgeek.com/19889/how-to-digitize-your-cassette-tapes/

VR headsets might help women manage the pain of childbirth. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-49280154

A Leonardo sketch was hiding beneath a masterwork. Imaging techniques show an earlier, abandoned plan for “Virgin of the Rocks.” https://www.cnn.com/style/article/leonardo-da-vinci-sketches-revealed-scli-gbr-intl/index.html

The first newspapers contained not high-minded journalism but hundreds of readers' letters exchanging news with one another. https://aeon.co/essays/how-personal-letters-built-the-possibility-of-a-modern-public

Watch David Byrne perform a chilling cover Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ backed by a choir of strangers https://happymag.tv/watch-david-byrne-perform-a-chilling-cover-bowies-heroes-backed-by-a-choir-of-strangers/

Paged Out! A New Security and Hacking Developer Magazine #cososec https://pagedout.institute/?page=issues.php

Why Washing Machines Are Learning to Play the Harp https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/why-are-washing-machines-learning-to-play-the-harp/594706/

Jeanne Calment made history when she died at the age of 122 in 1997, but a new investigation claims her daughter actually assumed her identity in 1934. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-questions-age-worlds-oldest-woman-180971153/

What were people reading in the summer of ‘69? Jacqueline Susann, The Godfather, and a little book by a medical student named Michael Crichton. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/books/review/inside-the-list-1969-best-sellers.html

After World War II, movie studios like MGM and Paramount found themselves at a crossroads as they adapted to changes brought on by both the war and the advancement of filmmaking technology. https://hyperallergic.com/513201/runaway-hollywood-ucla-film-television-archive/

A Brief and Awful History of the Lobotomy https://lithub.com/a-brief-and-awful-history-of-the-lobotomy/