"If you have visions of a postcard perfect European getaway this summer, look for cheap flights this week. According to data from travel site Kayak, this week is among the cheapest for booking flights to Europe for the summer." https://www.cntraveler.com/story/best-week-for-cheap-airfare-to-europe-this-summer

"Pyke notte thy nostrellys." A 15th-century guide on children's manners has been digitized for first time https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/21/pyke-notte-thy-nostrellys-15th-century-guide-on-childrens-manners-digitised-for-first-time

Knitting’s tangled history: From aristocrats to punks, the humble yarn has spun its way through centuries of social change https://www.1843magazine.com/style/the-line-of-beauty/knittings-tangled-history

38% of Americans wouldn't buy Corona beer "under any circumstances" because of the coronavirus, according to a recent survey.

Just to be abundantly clear: There is no link between the virus and the beer.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/28/business/corona-beer-marketing/index.html

"People tend to use crispy and crunchy interchangeably, but there’s a difference, and it’s been studied. This isn’t a matter of opinion, okay?!" https://www.bonappetit.com/story/crispy

I still have so many To Do items on my list.

But the cat says that my work day is done.

Who am I to argue?

Are the departed watching over us, and if so, what are they wearing? Victorian spiritualists believed that ghosts could be captured on film.
https://daily.jstor.org/how-spirit-photography-made-heaven-literal

Why America Is Losing The Toilet Race https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/02/25/808791622/why-america-is-losing-the-toilet-race

"The executive team spent a significant portion of its research and development budget on stopping product lines from wasting microscopic amounts of ink, or on ways to make its printers less compatible with other companies’ cartridges."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-27/xerox-and-hp-are-in-a-35-billion-fight-over-ink-cartridges

Learn how to glue anything to any other thing http://www.thistothat.com

Good news: Rather than suffering career consequences, telecommuters and non-telecommuters receive an equal number of promotions. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001879119301265?via%3Dihub

Early Riser or Night Owl? New Study Helps to Explain the Difference https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/02/25/early-riser-or-night-owl-new-study-may-help-to-explain-the-difference/

The Slow Mo Guys learn about tranquilizer dart physics using slow mo as a helpful tool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uynBcLr8fEc&feature=emb_logo

Programmers may know a lot. But they don’t know everything. And if you ask QA, says @carolpinchefsky, hoo boy, they’ll tell you what software developers OUGHT to know. https://www.functionize.com/blog/5-things-qa-testers-wish-programmers-understood/

15 Historic Diseases that Competed with Bubonic Plague https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/67247/15-historic-diseases-competed-bubonic-plague

From investigation of the 13th-century glass, a researcher dispelled the myth that cathedral glass is thicker at the bottom because of glass viscosity, or its slow transition to a liquid. https://www.medievalists.net/2019/01/using-westminster-abbey-windows-to-shine-light-on-glass-myth/

SpaceX won approval to take over land at the Port of Los Angeles, which it'll use to build the vessels required to take humans to Mars. https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-port/musks-spacex-rocket-production-facility-approved-by-port-of-los-angeles-idUKKBN20K01N

"No matter where I’ve worked, it has always been obvious that if everyone agreed to use language in the way that it is normally used, which is to communicate, the workday would be two hours shorter." https://www.vulture.com/2020/02/spread-of-corporate-speak.html

In the 17th century, English travelers, merchants, and physicians were first introduced to cannabis, particularly in the form of *bhang*, an intoxicating edible which had been getting Indians high for millennia. Benjamin Breen charts the course of the drug from the streets of Machilipatnam to the scientific circles of London. https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/how-the-english-found-cannabis