How to reduce 'attention residue' in your life https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200130-the-life-hack-to-reduce-admin-and-carve-out-downtime

In South America, countries struggle to protect traditional uses of coca while decreasing its currency in the addiction- and crime-addled cocaine trade.
https://www.sapiens.org/culture/coca-cocaine-legality/

"Given that the bootlegger appears to have died in 1916, his case is almost certainly the oldest to be cracked with forensic genealogy, a rapidly expanding forensic technique that uses individuals’ relatives in genealogy databases to identify human remains and crime scene DNA." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/us/idaho-outlaw-remains-found.html

TIL the Swedish word Träsmak (lit. wood taste): Sore bum from sitting on a hard surface (e.g. a wooden chair) https://svenska.se/tre/?sok=tr%C3%A4smak&pz=1

"Go north to find the Circular Room. Drop your sack here, then put the cluster in the sack. Push the statue and pick up the head. Roll the statue southwest, and drop the head with it. Now go northeast 3 times and take the cluster." https://www.walkthroughking.com/text/infidel.aspx

Macaroni cheese is now an American staple. Thank the French https://www.1843magazine.com/food/world-in-a-dish/how-mac-n-cheese-was-baked-into-american-culture

Does your company have a culture department, where the goal is to plug into the diverse communities the brands serve? Twitter’s God-is Rivera thinks you should.

(Also I was SUPER impressed with her. She's going to be a star.)

https://pgsignal.com/finding-your-voice/

NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online, 11.5 billion miles from Earth https://www.inverse.com/science/nasa-brings-voyager-2-fully-back-online-11.5-billion-miles-from-earth

Cats, lasers, and (Raspberry) Pi https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/cats-and-lasers-and-raspberry-pi-oh-my/

The Worst Career Advice You Need To Stop Following
> The trouble with the fake it til you make it mentality is that it glorifies the notion that we’ve got something to prove.
https://www.insideoutincubator.com/resources/2020/02/05/bad-advice

Upscaled & resounded version of Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (The Lumière Brothers, 1896) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RYNThid23g&feature=emb_title

Were you in a computer user group, back in their heyday? HIVEMIND INPUT SOLICITED.

I'm writing an article about The Golden Era of User Groups, and I'd love your input. Details here. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/estherschindler_were-you-in-a-computer-user-group-back-in-activity-6631687577005096960-QDcS

Researchers grew dates from 2,000-year-old seeds. They (the seeds, not the researchers) were found in ancient caves and fortresses in the Middle East. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/dead-sea-dates-grown-2000-year-old-seeds

The strangest job listings in tech https://www.protocol.com/unusual-tech-jobs-future

Some people may not remember or believe this, but 20 years ago The Oscars were stolen.
All of them.
The whole shipment. Just weeks before the show. Gone.
It only gets weirder from there…
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/02/the-oscars-are-missing

How to reach the “unreachable" consumer segments through digital games #esports #gaming #advertising https://pgsignal.com/winning-in-gaming-and-e-sports/

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott

Grace Hopper Celebration (September 29 through October 2 in Orlando) Call for Participation is open. https://ghc.anitab.org/2020-speakers

A team of researchers has grown yarn from human skin cells that they call a “human textile” — and they say it could be used by surgeons to close wounds or assemble implantable skin grafts. https://futurism.com/neoscope/horrific-yarn-human-skin