estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
With the newfound use of the hat pin as a weapon, women suddenly found themselves with the ability to defend themselves against predatory men, called mashers, on the street and on public transportation. https://blurredbylines.com/blog/hatpin-panic-mashers-stabbings-hat-pins/
Everything is getting more expensive - even the cost of getting a babysitter ($23 an hour in New York in case you were wondering). https://www.axios.com/babysitting-rates-skyrocket-cb63bd6b-52e0-446f-b701-80d59809e5c8.html
"Billy Bragg has praised a new academic project to catalogue the history of the English protest song from 1600 to the present day, saying that songs 'can’t change the world' but can 'bring people together'. A website catalogue of about 750 songs in the Our Subversive Voice project has been produced, presented alongside interviews with key songwriters." https://www.nme.com/news/music/billy-bragg-welcomes-new-uea-protest-song-project-3155150
David Boggs, an electrical engineer and computer scientist who helped create Ethernet, the computer networking technology that connects PCs to printers, other devices and the internet in offices and homes, died on Feb. 19 in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 71.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/technology/david-boggs-dead.html
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, has opened a new exhibit called “Mapping Fiction.” ROAD TRIP! https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/654968/game-of-thrones-fantasy-maps-display
Every day, here and at home, we are warned about the enemy.
But who is the enemy? Is it the alien? Well, we are all alien to one another.
Is it the one who believes differently than we do? No.
Oh, no, my friends.
The enemy is fear.
The enemy is ignorance.
The enemy is the one who tells you that you must hate that which is different.
Because in the end, that hate will turn on you and that same hate will destroy you.
--Babylon 5, "No Hiding Place"
The Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act gives the FCC the power to do several things, including mandating that service providers implement measures to authenticate their callers, better police their customers, and put their robocall mitigation efforts in the FCC’s new Robocall Mitigation Database. https://www.vox.com/recode/22882647/robocalls-robotexts-scams-stir-shaken-voip-extended-warranty
Several days into Russia’s attack on Ukraine, we are already witnessing astonishing stories play out online. Social media platforms, after years of Techlash, are once again in the center of a historic event, as it unfolds.
Different tech issues are still evolving, but for now, here are the key themes.
"Join me on this cathartic journey which aspires to be none of the following: constructive, systematic, exhaustive. I’m too tired for that, dear reader. Consider this a gag reel. A platter of amuse-bouches. A chocolate sampler box of nightmares." https://medium.com/@laurajavier/google-slides-is-actually-hilarious-83c1ced857ee
A medieval fantasy city map generator https://watabou.github.io/city-generator/
Researchers have built an artificial retina out of perovskite materials that can detect light in a similar fashion to the human eye. In tests, the device was even able to recognize handwritten numbers with a high degree of accuracy. https://newatlas.com/electronics/perovskite-artificial-retina-read-numbers
I feel seen.
"The mere act of making a to-do list relieves so much itchy stress that it can, paradoxically, reduce the pressure to actually get stuff done."
https://www.wired.com/story/to-do-apps-failed-productivity-tools/
A stereo movie created by NASA researchers shows the altitude of the Tonga plume during the eruption https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149474/tonga-volcano-plume-reached-the-mesosphere
A digital exhibition about the history of vaccines https://artsandculture.google.com/story/ugUBP0D2x-JygA
TIL there is a competition that awards prizes to graduate students who can turn their complex doctoral theses into dances. https://pweb.cfa.harvard.edu/news/astrophysics-student-wins-international-dance-your-phd-competition
My review of Deanna Raybourn's An Impossible Impostor: 5 stars
It's as fun as a theme park ride. You KNOW that there's going to be a surprise around the next corner, but you're never quite sure what it is... and you are delighted all the same. https://amzn.to/3tdHCHt
Gorham Bird and Junshan Liu are using drones, 360-degree photography, photogrammetry and laser scanners to create 3D digital reconstructions to keep these buildings “standing” in an online archive.
"He sailed away, abandoning objects that he did not want or could not move. Among this heap of castoffs was an uninscribed bust of a woman whose distinctive tall, flat-topped crown identified her as Akhenaten’s consort: Nefertiti." https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-enigmatic-nefertiti-came-to-be-locked-away-in-germany
The restaurant has around 40 employees, roughly half of which have been at Zazie for at least 10 years. https://news.yahoo.com/restaurant-san-francisco-no-tip-101000152.html
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017