During their lifetimes, they grabbed power and hung on to it; they convinced warriors, landowners and farmers to support them, and enemies to back down. But as with so many women before them, history blotted out their successes and their biographies. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/medieval-queens-daring-reigns-quickly-forgotten-180979246/

President D. Eisenhower deemed that astronaut candidates should be recruited only from the ranks of military fighter jet test pilots – at the time, women were barred from the role. https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2022/01/08/sixty_years_ago_nasa_scientists_found_that_women_would_be_better_astronauts_their_work_was_never_published_807835.html

May you grow up to be righteous
May you grow up to be true
May you always know the truth
And see the lights surrounding you
May you always be courageous
Stand upright and be strong
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young
--Bob Dylan, "Forever Young," released today in 1974

"The first H.A. Rey book I encountered had no monkeys whatsoever." https://nautil.us/issue/112/inspiration/readers-love-curious-george-i-fell-in-love-with-the-authors-astronomy-books

HIVE MIND: Does anyone have experience with tools to create quizzes that can be embedded into other platforms? Especially websites that are controlled by hardass clients whose web people are so locked-down that they are loath to let anyone touch anything?

I want to propose to a client something like this quiz and I’d have to make it super siimple for them because they usually just ask us for PDFs in the end, rather than touch HTML.
But maybe there is a simple way to go? https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/pop-quiz-can-you-turn-attrition-into-attraction

Photographer Chris Porsz tracks down people whose portraits he snapped decades ago and recreates those images. https://mymodernmet.com/chris-porsz-reunion-2/

While campaigning for the establishment of a federal holiday in King’s honor, Stevie Wonder wrote and performed this song around the country—so it’s only right that we sing it along with him today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inS9gAgSENE

33 seconds of cat activation noises
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=BYHwm8Foeqc&feature=emb_logo

Sir Michael Caine is reluctantly selling off many of his beloved items this March as he and his wife, Shakira, are downsizing from a mansion in Surrey, southeast England. https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27705/#/aa1=1&MR1_length=12&w1=list&m1=1

At least my trainer doesn't make me do THIS. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/zander-gym

Mapping Fiction is an exhibition at California's Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens that focuses "on the ways authors and mapmakers have built compelling fictional worlds." https://www.huntington.org/mapping-fiction

"The first portable bathroom is believed to have been invented by the ancient Egyptians around the 14th century B.C. It was discovered in the Kha tomb and was simply a wooden stool with a hole in it and a piece of pottery underneath for collection."
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/32992761/the-secret-mvp-sports-porta-potty

My Amazon review of _Hope Rides Again: An Obama Biden Mystery_ by Andrew Shaffer

A hoot! It's a quick read, and just what you need for a few hours of escapism.

https://amzn.to/3A2QVgw

These stunners will be a special addition to your houseplant collection, without all the fuss. https://modernfarmer.com/2021/09/easy-rare-plants/

The forgotten way medieval people slept https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep

For fans of FOUNDATION: notes from its production designer https://digital.copcomm.com/i/1438629-january-2022/81?

This is charming! https://thespaces.com/old-gatehouse-grimston-park-north-yorkshire/

Is there a sharepoint consultant in the house? One of my clients needs expertise for building an intranet. The money wouldn't suck.

I haven't seen all of these movies, but I don't object to any of them. But I am ready to argue about the order. #1 was important at the time but I rewatched it recently and... it's not that great of a movie. The events mattered; the movie shows its age. https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2021/there-are-a-surprising-amount-of-great-journalism-movies-here-are-our-top-25/

Hey, this is cool. https://sfist.com/2022/01/07/full-johnny-cash-1968-san-francisco-concert-digitally-restored-and-free-online/