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
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
"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.
Not bot, not beast: Scientists create first ever living, programmable organism
https://phys.org/news/2020-01-bot-beast-scientists-programmable.html
"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/
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