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Cases tackled by the Investigation Branch during its history have included everything from multimillion-pound heists, vicious murders, stamp frauds and forgeries, to dog attacks on postal workers. https://www.postalmuseum.org/blog/the-post-office-investigation-branch/

Wikiween takes the Wikipedia category you specify and checks to see if the people within it are alive or dead. If they are dead they get a little headstone in the Wikiween cemetery.

via @researchbuzz
https://researchbuzz.github.io/Wikiween/

"In this interactive article, we will build a breakout game using Commodore 64 BASIC in the browser. This is a fun programming hack, but it has quite profound theoretical background."

(The preview lies. The page is there.)
https://tomasp.net/commodore64/

An encyclopaedia was meant as reference, but also to be savoured. The 11th edition of Britannica (1929) featured Cecil B. DeMille on motion pictures and J.B. Priestley on English literature. It was, wrote Denis Boyles, ‘plausible, reasonable, unruffled, often reserved and completely authoritative’. And sometimes plain wrong.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/an-old-encyclopaedia-britannica-is-a-work-to-cherish

$2.2 million of funds that were raised from the Ice Bucket Challenge went into funding the development and trial of the new drug that the Food and Drug Administration approved this week for treatment of ALS, which is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/01/1126397565/the-ice-bucket-challenge-wasnt-just-for-social-media-it-helped-fund-a-new-als-dr

"Science was cool, technology was blossoming, and more and more Americans were dreaming of owning their own homes, replete with the latest gadgets. The Jetsons took that dream and supercharged it.... Whether The Jetsons was a blueprint for the future or simply a prediction of it, it foreshadowed many of the products and services we now use today." https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/jetsons-60th-anniversary-prophetic-future.html

This is what we all need today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL_zvi0ltzI

So, The Onion filed an amicus brief before the Supreme Court in defense of parody under the First Amendment… and it’s exactly what you’d expect.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/20221003125252896_35295545_1-22.10.03%20-%20Novak-Parma%20-%20Onion%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf

Innovation takes all forms — including a new law requiring free menstrual supplies for low-income women and girls.
https://pgsignal.com/2022/09/06/daniela-rios-campaign-brazil/

"Pessimists are completely blind to progress. That blindfold not only robs them of the energy to push forward, it also robs them of the lessons on how to do so.” https://bigthink.com/progress/pessimism-is-a-barrier-to-progress/

Take your next video conference from within the matrix
https://github.com/joschuck/matrix-webcam

In the 1950s comic books took Mexico’s youth by storm. But alongside familiar superhuman avengers were other kinds of heroes: real-life chemists.
https://sciencehistory.org/distillations/stories-of-the-great-chemists

USA Today Sports Center is a time capsule from a period in which a newspaper could convince people to pay five bucks an hour to log onto their service during the big game. https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/09/way-back-in-1989-usa-today-launched-an-online-sports-service-i-found-it-at-goodwill/

Piano-building was once one of the country’s largest industries. Today, only two companies remain in business. https://thehustle.co/how-one-of-americas-last-piano-manufacturers-stays-alive/

Truth

"This pastrami-heaped love affair shouldn’t surprise those who have watched the so-called delicore style trend unfold these past couple years." https://www.bonappetit.com/story/katz-new-york-delis-fashion-delicore

Anyone here using #Redis? @carolpinchefsky is looking for folks to interview for an article. (For me. So treat her well.)

Google "Double Asteroid Redirection Test" ...go on, just do it. You'll see why.