This week on QA Safari: @carolpinchefsky identifies the markings of the rare superb QA director and compares them with the merely good one.
https://www.functionize.com/blog/whats-the-difference-between-a-good-qa-director-and-a-great-one/

The Intel 8086 processor's registers: from chip to transistors http://www.righto.com/2020/07/the-intel-8086-processors-registers.html

What does the world look like from a beetle’s-eye view? Researchers strapped tiny cameras to the insects’ backs to find out. https://gizmodo.com/researchers-created-tiny-camera-backpacks-for-beetles-1844361973

What debugging technique did it take you entirely too long to learn?

Stunning photographs of birds might be the balm you need https://hyperallergic.com/577246/2020-audubon-photography-awards/

MIT researchers created a deepfake of Nixon delivering the 'In Event Of Moon Disaster' speech http://news.mit.edu/2020/mit-tackles-misinformation-in-event-of-moon-disaster-0720

A worthy question: "If the space is so ripe, why has there been no pocket innovation recently?" https://sambleckley.com/writing/pockets.html

An app lets you de-stress by screaming at the Icelandic wilderness from afar. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/17/892195741/app-lets-you-destress-by-screaming-into-icelandic-wilderness

Samurai Sword Master Rates 10 Japanese Sword Scenes In Movies And TV (longer than I needed personally, but certainly in-depth for those who know what they are looking at) https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=UMmLRJYdQlQ&feature=emb_title

"You might not have what it takes to throw a pitch for the Seattle Mariners, but you can at least stand around on the mound and watch. Virtually at least." https://www.geekwire.com/2020/t-mobile-seattle-mariners-putting-fans-mound-immersive-livestream-practice/

Like so many other things, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

But it's not as though I need to hear a national anthem at every game to remind me which country I'm in.
https://www.history.com/news/why-the-star-spangled-banner-is-played-at-sporting-events

A viral article with climate misinformation, published on The Daily Wire, was rated "partly false" by a Facebook fact-checking partners.

The fact-check was written by seven PhD scientists.

Then The Daily Wire and others complained.

And the rating was removed.

https://popular.info/p/fact-check-of-viral-climate-misinformation

A Typology of Dumplings https://borstell.github.io/dumplings.html

Do Not Call John Lewis a "Hero" if You Stood in His Way
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/john-lewis-mitch-mcconnell-brian-kemp-gop-voting-rights.html

A Roman settlement at the bottom of the sea: "A team of archaeologists and engineers are developing some surprising new technologies to protect the underwater site for future generations." http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200713-baiae-a-roman-settlement-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea

Google launched a hieroglyphics translator. The tool uses machine learning to decode ancient Egyptian language. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53420320

An analysis of 2,000 books and how body parts are described, by gender. https://pudding.cool/2020/07/gendered-descriptions/

"If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another." - H.H. 14th Dalai Lama

>> Today, some 14bn Nespresso capsules are sold every year, both online and from 810 brightly lit boutiques in 84 countries. More than 400 Nespressos are drunk every second.
...a good long read
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/jul/14/nespresso-coffee-capsule-pods-branding-clooney-nestle-recycling-environment