Australians locked down in an apartment block for Covid isolation are limited to a cruel daily ration of only “six beers or pre-mixed drinks, one bottle of wine, or one 375ml bottle of spirits,” absent a doctor’s orders for more. https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/nsw-health-limits-residents-of-lockeddown-tower-block-to-six-beers-per-day/news-story/0e387ceccee145a611ddb6e38872d3d5

"Phil Ochs always lamented the fact that Dylan had left his political leadership, as it were, in the dust but, honestly, the new politic is the internal politic." — Noel Paul Stookey https://www.goldminemag.com/interviews/noel-paul-stookey-just-causes

"Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs. Now he’s got a vision for where the pixel will take us next."
I got totally engrossed in this story.
https://www.wired.com/story/pixar-animation-alvy-ray-smith-pixel/

The history of tie-dye https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/fit-to-be-dyed

Aren't these beautiful?! https://nerdist.com/article/new-lord-of-the-rings-stamps-celebrate-20th-anniversary/

This is a fascinating history of scurvy, which is also a history of superstition, science, and progress.
https://antonhowes.substack.com/p/age-of-invention-plague-of-the-sea

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."--Susan B. Anthony

There Once Was A Poet Named Bates
His poems weren't always first rate
His first lines weren't bad
but the problem he had
Was that he always tried to put too many syllables into the last line.

The wood planks of the Coney Island Boardwalk were designed to accommodate two kinds of traffic: pedestrian and rolling chair. The sections with diagonal planks forming a chevron pattern were meant for foot traffic, whereas the two strips of straight planks were meant for rolling chairs. When the boardwalk opened in 1923, rolling chairs were already a popular attraction in Atlantic City, and they remained in Coney Island into the 1960s. https://nyhistory.tumblr.com/post/175814777404/when-the-coney-island-boardwalk-opened-in-1923-it

The Office of War Information and the District of Columbia Society for the Prevention of Blindness used an approachable looking raccoon to convince the public to wash hands in WWII. https://www.openculture.com/2021/08/vintage-public-health-posters-that-helped-people-take-smart-precautions-during-past-crises.html

We all have 20/20 hindsight. Of course, you, personally, would have seen the potential and done something different! https://albertcory.blogspot.com/2021/09/what-should-xerox-have-done.html

I feel hopeful about this. I didn't expect to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB59tJPthZg

Here's a look at 25 songs that got their meanings twisted and misconstrued—and the original intentions put forth by the artists who wrote them. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/57351/15-famous-songs-misunderstood-meanings

"From January 1995 through till the end of December, the Web grew from just over 10,000 websites to 100,000…"

https://webdevelopmenthistory.com/1995-apache-microsoft-iis-web-server-market/

awww
https://mymodernmet.com/animals-babbacombe-model-village-gardens/

"The promised benefit of ending UI benefits early was not evident in the data." https://ritholtz.com/2021/09/cutting-ui/

Guess the movie based on an AI’s visual interpretation of the plot. https://noahveltman.com/aimovies

My mom told me that she ALWAYS had a hat pin when she traveled the subway in the 30s.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hatpin-peril-terrorized-men-who-couldnt-handle-20th-century-woman-180951219/

In 2019, the UK became the first country in the world to set a net zero emissions target. Three years later, over 70% of world emissions are now covered by net-zero legislation, have net-zero emissions legislation under discussion, or occur where net-zero is the policy position of the government. Things change slowly... then they change very fast.
https://about.bnef.com/blog/net-zero-demands-strong-action-on-emissions-by-2030-new-energy-outlook-2021/

People of the 1920s recognized that big changes were ahead, and no one relished in guessing what those changes might be more than Hugo Gernsback. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/telemedicine-predicted-in-1925-124140942/