A box full of recipes on index cards sold for $1,650 at a virtual rare book fair. Authored by Lucille Bishop Smith—a trailblazing Black chef, educator, and entrepreneur—her legacy lives on in both these recipes and at a Houston restaurant. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lucilles-treasure-chest-of-fine-foods

Electronics & Microcontrollers for Absolute Beginners https://hackaday.io/page/7185-electronics-microcontrollers-for-absolute-beginners-part-1

How was it made? The Art of Shoe Making by Emiko Matsuda of Foster & Son making bespoke brogues https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=E-IcyDp3S1U&feature=emb_logo

It's 2020. Anything can happen. https://www.wired.com/story/how-outrun-dinosaur/

How a group of college students made gaming history at the dawn of personal computing and computer networks https://www.polygon.com/features/2015/5/21/8627231/the-first-first-person-shooter

Microsoft analyzed data on its newly remote workforce. Among the findings: While weekly meeting time increased by 10% overall, individual meetings shrank in duration. https://hbr.org/2020/07/microsoft-analyzed-data-on-its-newly-remote-workforce

Miss going to concerts? This 90s Festival Generator puts together random lineups, and then you can watch the Youtube videos. https://www.monkeon.co.uk/90sfestivalgenerator/

"Most writers have novels that never see the light of day. But 13? That’s serious dedication." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/23/brandon-sanderson-after-a-dozen-rejected-novels-you-think-maybe-this-isnt-for-you

== Today's Soundtrack ==

There been times that I thought I wouldn't last for long
Now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change's gonna come, oh, yes, it will

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6YCxXQ6Scw

"There is no federal statute on roadkill. Whether an animal carcass is salvageable depends on the individual, the species, and the season." https://www.outsideonline.com/2415607/eating-roadkill

How to Read 12 Books at Once
...wait like you don't, already? Though this is not at all like my own methods, which is "a different book in every room of the house." https://superorganizers.substack.com/p/surgical-reading-how-to-read-12-books

Nostalgia reimagined: Neuroscience is finding what propaganda has long known: nostalgia doesn’t need real memories – an imagined past works too
> Nostalgia researchers usually distinguish between ‘personal’ and ‘historical’ nostalgia; the former tends to be studied by social psychologists, while the latter tends to be studied in marketing.
https://aeon.co/essays/nostalgia-doesnt-need-real-memories-an-imagined-past-works-as-well

This was me. I had a light case, and tested negative on antibodies. Bill was sicker (though still mild) and had a positive test.

My takeaway from all of it is that _We are still trying to figure this thing out_. It's hard to do real science at warp speed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/26/health/coronvirus-antibody-tests.html

"in a typical American secondary school, being smart is likely to make your life difficult. Why?" (2003) http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

Researchers describe an AI system that can predict the most likely position within sheet music matching an audio recording https://venturebeat.com/2020/07/22/researchers-ai-aligns-sheet-music-with-midi-audio/

A website where you can search for recipes based on whatever's in your fridge
https://www.supercook.com/#/recipes

Take 30 seconds. Rest. Relax. https://vimeo.com/441091346

"One day, people could monitor their own health conditions by simply picking up a pencil and drawing a bioelectronic device on their skin." https://techxplore.com/news/2020-07-tattoo-electronics-skin.html