Deere explicitly advertises the ability of the tractor to work 24 hours a day, stopping only to fill up on gas. It’s powered by neural network AI that processes terabytes of data, including visual data from on-board cameras. https://www.agriculture.com/news/technology/john-deere-unveils-fully-autonomous-8r-tractor

My Amazon review of _About time: a history of civilization in twelve clocks_ by David Rooney

I wanted to like this more than I did. It has interesting stuff, but it's far from a collection of, say, Bill Bryson, "How about that!" historical knowledge.
https://amzn.to/3zHzlP9

Wanted: someone with experience running a pub, a love of isolation and a willingness to mark their appointment by sitting on a throne and having beer poured over their head. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/20/landlord-monarch-isolated-piel-island-cumbria-ship-inn

"Q: What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
A: Living in fear.”

David Bowie would have been 75 today. Here are his timeless answers to the Proust Questionnaire.
https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/07/10/david-bowie-proust-questionnaire-vanity-fair/

Scientists in Israel train goldfish to drive on land. This is cool. https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/scientists-in-israel-train-goldfish-to-drive-on-land-1.5726743

>> People frequently ask why the couple doesn’t just take the cats off the box. These are clearly dog owners. This is not how cats work.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2022/01/08/cats-took-vitamix-hostage/

There’s a hole in this cake! https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/bundt-cakes

TIL Isaac Asimov, a 21-year-old American Jew watching Hitler’s seemingly unstoppable march across Europe in 1941, dreamed up the Foundation Trilogy and its fictional science of psychohistory as a means of assuring himself everything would be ok. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/books/review/isaac-asimov-psychohistory.html

The arrival of 'smart' tomatoes https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211207-the-tomatoes-at-the-forefront-of-a-food-revolution

A searchable library of old book illustrations https://www.oldbookillustrations.com

Hollywood stars' most extreme makeovers https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20211123-house-of-gucci-and-the-trouble-with-extreme-actor-makeovers

Until his death in 1972, the duke – ‘every drop of blood in my veins is German’ – considered that the war should never have been fought and that Hitler was ‘not such a bad chap’. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/ghastly-truth

The directors, Lilly and Lana Wachowski, foresaw contemporary tensions online: between the internet’s tendency towards freedom and conformity, anarchy and authoritarianism. More remarkably, through the sheer force of the movie’s prescience and popularity, they shaped those tensions. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/film/2021/12/how-the-matrix-made-us

Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944). This sounds like the daily behavior of too many organizations. http://svn.cacert.org/CAcert/CAcert_Inc/Board/oss/oss_sabotage.html

A man passed a store window with nothing in it but a clock.
He stepped inside, and asked, "How long would it take to fix my watch?"
"How should I know?" shrugged the shop owner. "I don't fix watches. I'm a mohel."
"But - in your window - you have a clock!"
"So what would you put in the window?"

A man walks into a library and asks the librarian for books about paranoia. She whispers, "They're right behind you!"

Consider all that you eat in a day, and halve that. Drink coffee-flavored water. Stretch naked. And more health advice from 100 years ago. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/01/health-advice-for-50-year-olds-from-100-years-ago/

Bring the peace and solace of rainy days directly to your screen. https://rainyscope.com/