Valrhona created an online map where you can search for artisans in your area or who deliver. The link here for anyone to register their business:

This is to support anyone in the food industry (in Europe I guess). You don't have to be a Valrhona customer and no data capture.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfIpZFQ4ra41PXxfMEFdp2nDN2K5e-rtJZUV7AXJZExFFP3dA/viewform

An endangered plant was taken from Kew Gardens only a few years after scientists saved it from extinction. Sam Knight investigates what happens when plant obsession turns criminal https://www.theguardian.com/news/2014/oct/28/-sp-plant-crime-of-the-century

To celebrate Hubble's 30th anniversary, NASA's sharing what it snapped on your birthday.

Assuming you're under 30, that is.
https://gizmodo.com/to-celebrate-hubbles-30th-anniversary-nasas-sharing-wh-1842951372

How NASA does software testing and QA

It is, perhaps, your dream job – doing software testing for positive world-changing applications such as space exploration. But that comes with additional concerns, such as lives at stake and too-far-to-repair constraints.
https://www.functionize.com/blog/how-nasa-does-software-testing-and-qa/

The First Black Airmen to Fly Across America
>>In an unpublished manuscript written by Thomas Allen and held in the Oklahoma Historical Society’s collection, Allen would later write that “this crate acted like it did not care whether it flew or not.”
https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/banning-allen-transcontinental-flt-180967706/

David Attenborough is going to teach UK kids geography. https://secretldn.com/david-attenborough-geography

One result of the coronavirus pandemic: A lot of us are having trouble focusing on reading. https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Side-Effect-of-the-Covid-19/248568

Stranger than fiction and more curious than myth, alchemy’s golden age (ca. 1300–1700) was marked by experimental discovery and practical skill that helped shape our modern understanding of science. https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/age-of-alchemy/0QIyP7XkB-WZLA

Revisiting "How to Cook a Wolf" in the era of climate change https://electricliterature.com/this-cookbook-from-1942-is-the-conservation-guru-we-all-need/

This pandemic is showing us all who people really are.

And I am heartened to discover that most people are truly good and kind.

https://apnews.com/cef29bab4bb9c5eee109c16ab11aab76

The 10 most inspiring, enjoyable books about how to write
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/17/stephen-king-anne-lamott-10-books-how-to-write

Thieves, amateurs, and patriots have spent enough time planning the perfect art heist. Some remain unsolved; read on about the strangest cases. https://www.thecollector.com/art-heists/

If you're new to sewing (got some buttons to reattach?) this is a good starter-kit. https://amzn.to/2wXJefA

What life indoors looks like in Tokyo’s cramped homes. https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/TOKYO-HOMES/dgkvlabxpbx/

osFree is an open source project "aiming to replace eventually all OS/2 subsystems with Open source analogues" http://osfree.org/

Need a Break? Listen to the Hummingbirds
We’re all feeling some measure of stress, and many people out there have found comfort and distraction in new hobbies—like birdwatching. If you’re on the West Coast and you play your cards right, you might even have a unique opportunity to see the rufous hummingbird during its 3,000-mile migration from Mexico to Alaska.
https://youtu.be/kb0_kyvCTHo

As I sewed homemade masks for us to go shopping in, I contemplated... many grandchildren will find such things in years to come, and gaze at them with the bemusement with which I contemplate my mother's WWII ration books.

A tour of Ruth Reichl’s vast menu collection. https://www.tastecooking.com/ruth-reichl-mayor-menuland/

"The true story of the plague village shows the problem of drawing on half-remembered histories for guidance on how to respond to extraordinary and rare events" https://www.1843magazine.com/features/rewind/eyam-revisited-lessons-from-a-plague-village

Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle https://www.instructables.com/id/Literary-Clock-Made-From-E-reader