How a team of calligraphers brought Jane Austen's fictional letters to life https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/jane-austen-pride-and-prejudice-letters

Computer scientists are trying to build an AI system that can win a gold medal at the world’s premier math competition. https://www.quantamagazine.org/at-the-international-mathematical-olympiad-artificial-intelligence-prepares-to-go-for-the-gold-20200921

Sentiment analysis, based on online posting, suggests a potential Biden landslide.

"The LUX analysis software uses real-time data from several social media outlets to indicate what voters may really be thinking rather than what they tell pollsters when they call."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynerash/2020/09/29/new-big-data-sentiment-analysis-show-potential-biden-election-landslide/#3ed481e2f0b6

Asked to tell white supremacists and militia groups to stay away from protests, the president told them to be on alert. https://theintercept.com/2020/09/30/neo-fascist-proud-boys-exult-trump-telling-stand-not-stand/

The EU Calls for a "New Bauhaus" https://hyperallergic.com/590455/european-union-new-bauhaus/

It ticks once a year, the century hand advances once every 100 years, the cuckoo comes out on the millennium, and it will keep time for the next 10,000 years. https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/09/18/why-is-someone-building-a-10000-yr-clock-inside-a-mountain-the-10000-yr-anti-doomsday-clock/

3 things you ought to know about User Acceptance Testing
(by me)

The biggest lesson to learn about UAT is that none of it is technical. It’s wholly political.

https://www.functionize.com/blog/3-things-you-ought-to-know-about-user-acceptance-testing/

Why you should always take notes by hand https://theconversation.com/note-taking-by-hand-a-powerful-tool-to-support-memory-144049

The Royal Press shared a video documenting the step-by-step process of letterpress printing by experienced composer, Aunty Ah Chan, filmed in 2013. https://www.facebook.com/watch/

7 future markers of diversity https://uxdesign.cc/7-future-markers-of-diversity-6725060a940b

It's All About The Pentiums · By "Weird Al" Yankovic (1999) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos

How do trees find their sense of direction as they grow? Researchers are getting to the root — and the branches — of how the grandest of plants develop. https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2020/bent-shape-rules-tree-form

Comics: Old-School Distance-Learning Tools
How the often-maligned genre was used to train soldiers, explain the weather, and teach us about the modern world. https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/comics-old-school-distance-learning-tools

A protein, previously found to be an effective blood-based biomarker of neurodegenerative diseases, has for the first time been detected in eye fluid. The discovery lays the foundation for eye tests to catch neurodegenerative diseases before symptoms appear. https://newatlas.com/medical/nfl-alzheimers-biomarker-eye-test-dementia-diagnose/

The New York Public Library recommended "10 books by or about refugees and immigrants." https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/09/15/booklist-refugees-and-immigrants

How many developers does it take to test a product?

Most development shops want QA testers involved in creating their new software. But what’s the proper ratio of testers to developers? Yes, “it depends,” but let’s look at the answers to, “…on what?”
https://www.functionize.com/blog/how-many-developers-does-it-take-to-test-a-product/

Why Your Dongle Junk Drawer Will Never Be Empty
Pondering the many ways that dongles have taken over or lives, for better and for worse. One port will never rule them all, apparently. https://tedium.co/2020/08/21/weird-dongle-history-evolution

The call is coming from inside the house https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/09/how-a-hacker-turned-a-250-coffee-maker-into-ransom-machine/

Yet another social network. https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/9/25/21454441/telepath-app-beta-richard-henry-marc-bodnick-quora-content-moderation-kindness