Some restaurateurs describe delivery apps as an addiction. They know the habit will harm them, but it provides a short-term fix. https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/01/26/gulp-the-secret-economics-of-food-delivery

This Word Does Not Exist uses an artificial intelligence model named GPT-2 to invent new English words.
https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/

If you could get the boss to understand one thing, just ONE thing, related to data science...what would it be?
...and why do you pick THAT as your "one thing"? #datascience

"A sample of hair belonging to the legendary 19th century Native American leader Sitting Bull has allowed scientists to confirm that a South Dakota man is his great-grandson. Scientists took DNA from a tiny sample of Sitting Bull's hair that had been stored in Washington DC." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59062133

> Enter new password

~ chicken

> Password must contain a capital

~ chicken kiev 

OH: "I dressed up as an UDP packet for the Halloween. I don’t think anyone got it, but I couldn’t tell." #sysadminjokes

"Being an idealistic astrophysicist, my interest is in the money to be made from them. That really is idealistic because, if we can make a profit mining the asteroids, then doing bigger things in space will become a lot cheaper." https://aeon.co/essays/asteroid-mining-could-pay-for-space-exploration-and-adventure

"The bears got ice cream and whipped cream. To get the chimp to stay still, we gave her marshmallows and M&M's." https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/zoos-have-started-vaccinating-animals-against-the-coronavirus/2021/10/21/e07d6caa-26d0-11ec-9de8-156fed3e81bf_story.html

Awww! (with a happy ending)

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-59135036

"Gab CEO declined to comment on security and privacy guardrails Gab implements, noting, 'We only do interviews with Christian media outlets and therefore we have no comment for The Daily Demon.'” https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-maga-social-media-is-a-hackers-wet-dream

At the time there was no such thing as sports analytics - but Fullerton kept his own detailed shorthand notes and recorded plays during games. So they agreed to monitor and highlight all instances of anything questionable.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/baseball/59078788

If an ant encounters a gap too wide for it to cross, the insect will sometimes signal other ants to form a bridge of their linked bodies. Such behaviour has now been copied in a small four-legged robot, that may inspire better search-and-rescue bots. https://newatlas.com/robotics/ant-inspired-quadruped-swarm-robots/

Get a kitten for every 100 words you write. http://writtenkitten.co

A new cookbook is a translation of a rare, 13th-century volume. Until July of 2018, this tome’s chapters on vegetables, sauces, pickled foods, and more, were lost—leaving a gaping hole in all existing editions of the text, like an empty aisle in the grocery store. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/moorish-cuisine

In its Ancient Greek Guide to Social Media, the BBC looks at what we could learn about navigating social media from ancient philosophers. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210922-would-plato-tweet-the-ancient-greek-guide-to-social-media

"Thanks to two microphones aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover, the mission has recorded nearly five hours of Martian wind gusts, rover wheels crunching over gravel, and motors whirring as the spacecraft moves its arm." https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/hear-sounds-from-mars-captured-by-nasa-s-perseverance-rover

“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.”

John Cleese, who turns 82 today, on 5 factors to make your life more creative.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/04/12/john-cleese-on-creativity-1991/

In England, a team of volunteers have been working on growing their own clothes. They planted flax, which has been "broken, scutched, hackled, spun, and woven to create the fabric linen" and woad to create natural indigo dye. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58883328