estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
Tiffany Kersten saw 726 species in 48 states, setting a new record for the mind-boggling achievement birders call a Big Year. https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/new-bird-watching-record/
Nero also attended controversial “work meetings.” (This is more historical fun than political, so you don't need to worry.) https://www.economist.com/1843/2022/01/18/ill-timed-parties-from-belshazzar-to-boris
"What we are witnessing during the Summer of Shohei is Ohtani becoming one of the rarest things in sports: an athlete who is capable, in any given crack of the bat or duck-diving splitter, of producing something no one has seen with their own eyes before."
https://www.gq.com/story/shohei-ohtani-february-cover-profile
Hats off to whoever in Adelaide is going round putting googly eyes on everything. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jan/19/a-very-adelaide-thing-to-do-who-is-behind-the-citys-googly-eyes-wave
Exploring the Japanese texts that use a rebus-style script for teaching the illiterate to recite the Heart Sūtra, and other sacred texts, in Chinese. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/buddhist-texts-for-the-illiterate
A beautifully-illustrated interactive article explaining how GPS works. https://ciechanow.ski/gps/
The best part of this -- other than than the fun of a bubblegum song -- is watching the band decide, "Fuck this lip sync."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqketmsRz1E
What do you call an apology written in dots and dashes?
Re-morse code. #jokes
These vending machines sell internet access five minutes at a time. "For many Filipinos, coins are the currency of the internet." https://restofworld.org/2022/philippines-pisonet-internet-access
What's it called when a King and Queen have no children?
A receding heir line. #jokes
Crime sold. A dead body, sexual impropriety—or ideally both—moved papers. That Dostoevsky’s editor commissioned Crime and Punishment on the strength of such an opaque proposal was no doubt partly driven by the fact that readers were rabid for all things crime. https://newrepublic.com/article/164767/dostoevsky-favorite-murder-saint-sinner-review
Health fads come and health fads go, though few were as downright odd as the 1920s’ and 1930s’ craze for yeast cakes.
https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/the-healing-power-of-compressed-yeast
1983 Byte interview with Apple's Lisa developers https://guidebookgallery.org/articles/lisainterview
Radio-browser.info is “a community driven effort (like wikipedia) with the aim of collecting as many internet radio and TV stations as possible.” The 29,000+ stations span 200+ countries and 280+ languages. https://www.radio-browser.info
Their chief goal is to persuade the audience that, first, the pre-twist understanding was a perhaps understandable, but fundamentally mistaken, interpretation of the facts as given, and, second, that the post-twist understanding is entirely consistent with those same facts. https://aeon.co/essays/a-surprise-story-is-a-self-exploding-confidence-game
From an essay on bundling features: In the 1980s, if you wanted to draw a graph, count the words in a document or even print in landscape format, you had to buy a separate computer program costing $50-$100. (And I did.) https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2020/12/21/google-bundling-and-kill-zones
Republican state Rep. David Cook is proposing a bill to provide incumbents options to get back on the Arizona ballot.
Instead of requiring representatives to gather signatures through a petition, they can instead pay a $250 fee to the Arizona Treasury.
There’s no good hangover cure. A review of scientific studies found little evidence that any home remedy actually works. https://gizmodo.com/scientists-try-fail-to-find-a-diy-hangover-cure-that-a-1848286696
NASA hopes private companies will replace the ISS by 2030—but which one(s)? https://spectrum.ieee.org/private-space-stations
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017