I wrote another thing.

How to make virtual events not suck https://applied.economist.com/articles/lessons-from-the-year-of-online-events

By borrowing and updating beliefs that have been shared among “the folk” for millennia, QAnon’s tenets display a base that is deeply rooted in folklore. https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/folkloric-roots-of-qanon-conspiracy

"New virtual and 'augmented' reality technology is allowing users to experience 1960s civil rights marches, the agony of segregation for Black Americans, or life in a Japanese American internment camp." https://www.axios.com/virtual-reality-racism-education-187cad47-ed6b-43ba-9a5a-cc3071587d31.html

Once upon a time, the box set was the luxury item of the music-listening experience. It could confer importance, cement legacies, and revitalize careers. But what is a box set when all the world’s a playlist?
https://www.theringer.com/music/2020/12/10/22166604/box-sets-cds-bob-dylan-richard-thompson

Have I mentioned lately that the Internet is wonderful?
https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/blob-opera/AAHWrq360NcGbw

I wrote a thing.

A route-map for retraining workers

Companies often want to keep loyal employees when their jobs change or go away. What are the most effective ways to move people onto a new career path?
https://applied.economist.com/articles/a-route-map-for-retraining-workers

#Firefly news
"My source tells me that Disney is in early development on a Firefly reboot. The new show would start the story of Captain Mal Reynolds and his crew aboard the Serenity over from scratch, with an aim to make this a long-running series on Disney+." https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/firefly-reboot-disney.html

"My source tells me that Disney is in early development on a Firefly reboot. The new show would start the story of Captain Mal Reynolds and his crew aboard the Serenity over from scratch, with an aim to make this a long-running series on Disney+." https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/firefly-reboot-disney.html

"For planes, the [post-Covid] recovery might be difficult, so there's a space for trains and night trains to take a better share of the market"
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/night-trains-europe-sleeper-obb/index.html

Perhaps some of us have had too much time in quarantine.

(But this is amazing.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2xgiHVjT7o&feature=emb_logo

From Ursula K. Le Guin to Iain M. Banks to Kim Stanley Robinson, how science fiction has shaped socialism. https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/12/how-sci-fi-shaped-socialism

Tomorrow’s World: Office of the Future (1969) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnMjoitdRRM&feature=emb_logo

Take a trip to The Met—all you need is a pair of headphones 🎧
Explore the #MetCollection online with 2016–17 #MetLiveArts Artist-in-Residence Nate DiMeo as your guide in his podcast "The Memory Palace." https://soundcloud.com/metmuseum/memory-palace-episode-2

Outstanding article, with both wonder and awe at what scientists have achieved in such a short time, and also the weaknesses in the system.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/science-covid-19-manhattan-project/617262/

On any given night in 1970, a teen somewhere in rural America could dial a number and hear the radical wisdom of Patti Smith, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Bourroughs – the list of poets was long, and painfully hip.
https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/05/19/before-the-internet-there-was-the-1960s-dial-a-poem-hotline

Microgravity isn’t enough to throw spiders off their web-weaving game. Arachnids in orbit orient themselves toward a source of light and keep spinning perfect webs. https://gizmodo.com/space-station-spiders-found-a-hack-to-build-webs-withou-1845851520

Rock samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu have landed safely on Earth following a 180M-mile journey. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/07/1013316/japan-hayabusa-2-ryugu-asteroid-space/