.

Good news: European cancer mortality predictions for 2023 suggest death rates will be 6.5% lower in men and 3.7% lower in women than they were in 2018. The biggest contributor to this decline is lung cancer. https://www.annalsofoncology.org/article/S0923-7534(23)00048-0/fulltext

"In the face of mezcal’s explosive popularity, many producers have struggled to increase production while maintaining environmentally responsible practices." https://atmos.earth/mezcal-oaxaca-environmental-impact/

Electronic supermarket checkout terminals (1978) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR46VzCAZ8I

John (Wick), James (Bond), Jack (Ryan), investigating why the past 70 years of action movie heroes' names all seem to begin with the letter “J”.
https://slate.com/culture/2023/03/john-wick-james-bond-action-heroes-j-names.html

A Machine Learning algorithm walks into a bar.

The bartender asks, "What'll you have?"

The algorithm says, "What's everyone else having?"

The use of fans, which represented electrons, was nonnegotiable for Marshall: “I can’t dance unless there’s something in my hands.” https://www.science.org/content/article/lord-rings-quoting-performance-wins-year-s-dance-your-ph-d-contest

Fifty-six percent of those surveyed say the term means "to be informed, educated on, and aware of social injustices." That includes not only three-fourths of Democrats but also more than a third of Republicans. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/08/gop-war-woke-most-americans-see-term-positive-ipsos-poll/11417394002/

.

My Amazon review of _Jackson, 1964 and other dispatches from fifty years of reporting on race in America_ by Calvin Trillin

It's a really good snapshot of where we have been and where we need to go, written by someone with an excellent command of language and an innate sense of fairness even when he (clearly) disagrees with the people he's reporting on. Recommended, especially for my writer and journalist friends.

https://amzn.to/3FysOKt

"Necessity is the excuse for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of the tyrant and the creed of the slave."– William Pitt

When Richard J. Daley took office as the mayor of Chicago in 1955 he was determined to develop the riverfront and tasked city workers with finding where the sewage was coming from. They used the green dye to help identify the source of the waste.

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/16/1086988193/st-patricks-day-green-chicago-river

Charvy is the latest in a long line of local mustard makers in Dijon, a status first protected here in the 1600s. Following the 2009 closure of the Amora-Maille factory, he also became the last.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dijon-mustard

Talking Heads’ inimitable 1984 concert film, Stop Making Sense, is going to get restored in 4K and re-released theatrically by A24. https://pitchfork.com/news/talking-heads-stop-making-sense-to-get-restored-and-re-released-by-a24

For #Redis fans: We have a public preview of Active-Active database deployments with Redis Enterprise for #Kubernetes.
https://redis.com/blog/announcing-active-active-kubernetes/

'Prostate cancer could be cured with a "game-changing" one-hour operation that uses electric currents to destroy the most difficult to reach tumours. The pioneering treatment has been used to treat the disease for the first time on the NHS, with surgeons saying the breakthrough could offer hope to thousands of men.'
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/02/one-hour-operation-could-cure-prostate-cancer-destroying-tumours/

"The rewatching experience allowed them to appreciate how much they had grown. It wasn’t yearning for the past; it was an appreciation of the present." https://www.vox.com/culture/23600020/why-rewatch-old-tv-shows-streaming-netflix

Virgin Orbit pauses all operations https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64973383