A Loving Tribute to the Egg Cream, New York’s Classic Drink https://hyperallergic.com/619448/a-loving-tribute-to-the-egg-cream-new-yorks-classic-drink/

Welcome to The Matrix. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-02-wearable-device-body-battery.html

"The main distinction I found was that Trump was among the most frequent users of storytelling methods. Since I am a digital narrative researcher, that intrigued me. ...I discovered a particular story structure that he used the whole time."
https://source.colostate.edu/i-analyzed-all-of-trumps-tweets-to-find-out-what-he-was-really-saying/

How Parisian baguettes are made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffgZP-ZKKtI&t=325s

Despite his orthodoxy, Philip II commissioned his clockmaker to commit an act of audacious liturgical daring: to craft a machine to do the job of a monk, and which still offers those prayers of thanksgiving 460 years after he was first wound. The monk continues to make offerings on behalf of the life of a child who died in the 16th century. Turriano’s ‘miracle’ is ultimately an ingenious device made cunningly.
https://aeon.co/essays/can-a-robot-pray-does-an-automaton-have-a-soul-ai-and-theology-meet

There is at least one app out there called Snap Camera that will let you turn yourself into a variety of on-camera creatures. While it doesn’t provide the exact cat head the lawyer found himself wearing, it does let you add a wide range of effects, backgrounds, and distortions, some of which are downright nightmarish.
https://www.theverge.com/22276091/zoom-snap-camera-filter-how-to-youtube-cat

Wow. A French nun survived the 1918 flu pandemic and both world wars. Now she’s beaten coronavirus days before she turns 117.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/10/nun-117-survive-covid-france/

This “Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election,” has ballot results for more than 100,000 precincts in dozens of states, representing nearly two-thirds of all votes cast. (And it sure shows how purple my neighborhood is.)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."--Kurt Vonnegut

How Norman Rockwell Used Live Models For His Famous Works Of Art https://petapixel.com/2012/12/27/the-photographs-norman-rockwell-used-to-create-his-famous-paintings/

Watch out now, take care
Beware of greedy leaders
They take you where you should not go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7jN08RQGnM

"Remarkably, of the classes considered, ethnic diversity had the strongest correlation with scientific impact." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07634-8

TIL that nine of the thirty top-grossing films in history use Marvel characters. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/15/who-really-created-the-marvel-universe

Facebook Monday revealed additional categories of debunked information regarding the Covid-19 vaccine that it is now removing from Facebook and Instagram, as well as a global campaign to provide its users with authoritative information about the vaccine.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/8/22272883/facebook-covid-19-vaccine-misinformation-expanded-removal-autism

"It’s a mobile transforming workstation for those who need more screen real estate than they have room for monitors."

You wannnttttttt this.
https://gizmodo.com/its-no-surprise-this-absolutely-obscene-7-screen-laptop-1846222859

Nextdoor has gradually evolved into something bigger and more consequential than just a digital bulletin board: In many communities, the platform has begun to step into roles once filled by America’s local newspapers. https://onezero.medium.com/nextdoor-is-quietly-replacing-the-small-town-paper-ca583962c15a

You get off at Seiryu Miharashi Station, but you can’t go anywhere and, to leave, you have to wait for the next train. This station has only one function: to remind men of the importance of stopping, and admire the view. https://www.smalljoys.tv/train-station-just-for-enjoying/

Seed libraries maintain stocks of seeds that the public can “check out” to plant in their gardens, no fee or membership required. https://modernfarmer.com/2021/02/this-teenager-helped-launch-seed-libraries-in-every-state/