Do you sometimes feel like a fraud? How this disorientating condition swept through a generation https://www.1843magazine.com/features/do-you-sometimes-feel-like-a-fraud

As coronavirus spreads, some Beijing bookstores have partnered with a food delivery service to get books to readers. https://www.abacusnews.com/tech/bookstores-hit-hard-coronavirus-can-now-deliver-books-using-food-delivery-app/article/3073924

An incredible shot of a chameleon has won the best nature photograph in global photography social network Agora’s latest contest. https://newatlas.com/digital-cameras/agora-best-nature-photography-2020-gallery/

"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important." -- TS Eliot

After decades among the hidden homeless, Dominic Van Allen dug himself a bunker beneath a public park. But his life would get even more precarious. #longreads https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/mar/05/invisible-city-how-homeless-man-built-life-underground-bunker-hampstead-heath

"After seven years of retweeting and upvoting, we can gather the most popular headlines to see what makes a 'Florida Man' headline successful." https://towardsdatascience.com/explore-a-database-of-the-most-popular-florida-man-headlines-cec6f62c8360

Do Not Touch Your Face is a tool that helps you avoid touching your face using your webcam and machine learning. https://donottouchyourface.com

"The turn of 20th century found Greenwich Village in the midst of a transformation -- as affluent residents largely decamped uptown closer to Central Park and 5th Avenue, a bohemian enclave took shape in their wake."
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/see-newly-digitized-super-detailed-photos-old-greenwich-village

Tired of paying a fortune for a bunch of TV shows that you don’t even watch? Tara Calishain reveals the secret of getting free TV (and it’s legal). #cordcutting https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2020/03/no-sweat-tech-the-golden-age-of-free-tv-online/

Here's something to make you smile. https://mymodernmet.com/dogs-for-adoption-pizza-boxes/

Current mood https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=29&v=0wHiz1Z11V0&feature=emb_logo

The plant's golden color has inspired a long—and potentially deadly—fascination. https://daily.jstor.org/plant-of-the-month-turmeric/

An 11-year-old Star Wars fan got an R2-D2 bionic arm. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/an-11-year-old-star-wars-fan-got-a-r2-d2-bionic-arm-mark-hamill-called-her-a-hero/ar-BB10HWjp

In honor (?) of all the conferences being cancelled:

"All of the tribes – reps, tinkerers, achievers, experience-seekers, fans – could replicate much of what the NEC offers them online. Yet still they make their pilgrimages to this soulful, soulless place, this mecca in concrete and linoleum." https://www.1843magazine.com/people/my-journey-to-the-heart-of-the-great-british-expo

A Woman Took Care of Succulent for Two Years, Then Realized It Was Fake. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7qxj3/woman-took-care-of-succulent-for-two-years-then-realized-it-was-fake

The first class of hand-picked remote workers moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in exchange for $10,000 and a built-in community. The city might just be luring them to stay. https://www.citylab.com/life/2020/02/tulsa-incentives-work-remotely-coworking/604873/

"The profession would essentially require you to become a human ornamental folly on the grounds of a wealthy family estate, whilst living in a cave (or cottage, turret, hole, etc.), contemplating the human condition and enchanting the occasional passer-by with your presence at the behest of the landowner."
https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/05/14/the-curious-career-of-living-as-a-real-life-garden-gnome

The History of the URL
On the 11th of January 1982 twenty-two computer scientists met to discuss an issue with ‘computer mail’ (now known as email).
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-history-of-the-url/

Scholars once doubted that pre-literate peoples could ever have composed and recited poems as long as the Odyssey. Milman Parry changed that.
>> “Instead of construing the Iliad and the Odyssey as either conventionally authored works or pieced-together editions, Milman Parry portrayed them as the products of a generations-long process of composition in performance,” Foley wrote. This helped revolutionize the way we understand the oral origins of epic poetry.
https://daily.jstor.org/how-do-we-know-that-epic-poems-were-recited-from-memory