TIL that for almost a century, farmers were banned from growing black and red currants in the United States. https://modernfarmer.com/2021/07/a-once-forbidden-fruit-makes-a-resurgence/

New bucket list item: Cooking in Julia Childs' kitchen
https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/10698076

"Imagine sitting out in the sun, reading a digital screen as thin as paper, but seeing the same image quality as if you were indoors. Thanks to research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, it could soon be a reality. A new type of reflective screen - sometimes described as 'electronic paper' - offers optimal colour display, while using ambient light to keep energy consumption to a minimum." https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-07/cuot-nep070921.php

'Although not every novel under contract for potential adaptation shares all of these features, they do seem to possess a consistent set of what we call “option aesthetics”: episodic plots, ensemble casts, and intricate world-building.' https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/07/tv-adaptations-fiction/619442/

Galileo was not only a relentless advocate for what science could teach the rest of us. He was a master in outreach and a brilliant pioneer in the art of getting his message across. https://nautil.us/issue/103/healthy-communication/galileo-the-science-publicist

My Amazon review of _Monet's table: the cooking journals of Claude Monet_ -- It's more "Monet at home" than a list of recipes. That's not a bad thing.
https://amzn.to/3BGZ0b2

"The two linen fragments were pieced together after a digital image of one segment was cataloged on an open-source online database by the Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand." https://www.livescience.com/book-of-the-dead-fragments-pieced-together.html

Oh right like you could resist clicking on this https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/10/purrfect-match-cats-and-their-human-doubles

I giggled. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-Es4gkwGkY

Just in case you have an old one lying around https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/internet-of-things/bringing-new-life-to-the-altair-8800-on-azure-sphere/ba-p/2554337

"We wanted to know which books, regardless of genre, changed the way they considered a certain culture or place or people; the books that inspired them both to write and to get out into the world themselves."
I agree with Blue Highways and The Round House. But I've read few of these books.
https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2007-08-08/the-86-greatest-travel-books-of-all-time

The system monitors daily government meetings on YouTube to assess how long a representative has been looking at their phone versus the meeting in progress. If the AI detects a distracted person, it publicly identifies the party by posting the clip. https://mashable.com/article/flemish-politicians-ai-phone-use

Hart then typed up the text of a copy of the Declaration of Independence he had been given earlier that day and sought to distribute the file. ... Hart posted the text file on the network and thereby launched what was to become Project Gutenberg. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2021/07/13/happy-birthday-to-the-ebook/

The Print Shop Club: Create Apple II Print Shop Printouts in the Browser
Wwelcome to 1986!
Download your creations as PDFs and print them out.
https://theprintshop.club/

Q: Why does a man name his penis?
A: Because he doesn't want a total stranger making 90% of his decisions.

"The South certainly won the textbook war..."
A bunch of stuff I didn't know.
>> These editions reinforced a Lost Cause narrative for Southern audiences. For example, they depicted enslaved people as happy and content. Officials even counted the textbook lines to make sure authors had mentioned Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee as many times as Abraham Lincoln or Ulysses S. Grant.
https://www.futurity.org/civil-war-history-education-2594482/

The history of acne remedies https://www.racked.com/2018/4/12/17071814/acne-treatment-history

The metaphor you use not only shapes how you experience your inner critical voice, but also determines your counterstrategies. https://psyche.co/ideas/youre-not-a-computer-youre-a-tiny-stone-in-a-beautiful-mosaic