estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
Can you require your employees to have a COVID-19 vaccine?
It depends on the job, but the answer is often yes, writes @sjvn
I can't tell you how many times I have re-read this book, despite the fact that I have ALWAYS hated the ending.
But, every time, some part of me imagines that the story will go another way. And I love the premise and the world-building, even though we get only a pencil sketch. Maybe that's the crux of it: My own imagination fills in the blanks. #cosobookclub
"Report on reading habits of more than one million children also finds they read longer books, particularly during school closures." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/29/children-read-longer-more-challenging-books-in-lockdown
The mayor of Castiglione di Sicilia says that he hopes selling hundreds of abandoned homes for pocket change will give his town a shot in the arm. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/castiglione-di-sicilia-one-euro-houses/index.html
The British postal service has released a wondrous new collection of artworks that will be featured on its tiny postage stamps, celebrating six classic science fiction novels by British writers. https://mashable.com/article/classic-british-science-fiction-novels-stamps/
"Having experienced not-so-successful handovers — some of which took place over the course of a one-hour meeting — I was inspired to create a guideline that will help other teams do handovers differently." https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/how-to-successfully-hand-over-systems
In a technique known as “arm to arm” vaccination, the vaccine was kept alive in one patient before being passed to the next. https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/04/08/send-for-the-orphans-how-the-smallpox-vaccine-crossed-the-globe
The stakes were further heightened when a cat made the underground journey. As Connelly wrote, “ How it could live after being shot at terrific speed from Station P in the Produce Exchange Building, making several turns before reaching Broadway and Park Row, I cannot conceive, but it did.” https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/04/21/when-cats-peaches-lunch-and-letters-were-mailed-beneath-the-streets-of-nyc/
What happened to the actors performing the night Lincoln was assassinated? Mariah Fredericks on the haunted cast of Our American Cousin. https://crimereads.com/what-happened-to-the-actors-who-were-performing-the-night-lincoln-was-shot/
Machine learning has been used to develop algorithms that can analyze driving data and detect dementia in a driver. The researchers say it could be possible in the future to detect early signs of dementia using devices incorporated into car systems. https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/cognitive-decline-dementia-aging-driving-prediction-detect-machine-learning/
"Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective." -- Hunter Thompson's life advice to a friend
"It would be impossible to do a general "comic book lettering" post. ... So I've decided to break it down into manageable chunks, starting with what I find to be the most popular - Marvel superheroes." https://reaganray.com/2021/04/06/marvel-lettering.html
"As far as the Romans were concerned, the best and therefore the most expensive urine on the market came from the country of Portugal. It was supposedly the strongest urine in the world and thus, the choice for whitening teeth."
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/money-does-not-stink-urine-tax-ancient-rome-003408
Half a century after Hand started it, a new group of UCLA researchers has made the Archive of Healing available to the public. Now a searchable database, the Archive of Healing includes 700,000 pieces of data, digitized from more than 1 million index cards, ranging from folk sayings and rituals to incantations and recipes.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/healing-foods-from-around-world
Even when it is inscrutable, math is beautiful. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-art-of-mathematics-in-chalk/
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017