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Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America. "I hate birds. These are my field notes."
April 27
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Did humans arrive in America 115,000 years earlier than commonly accepted? (Spoiler: probably not.)
April 25
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Who Is This Restaurant For? A really interesting podcast series about restaurants, race, and culture.
Adding "And Then The Murders Began" As The Second Sentence Of Any Book Makes It Instantly Better
April 22
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Is Bugs Bunny black? What about Elmo? Or Optimus Prime? (It would be fun to do this with Jewish characters too)
A short history of looking at data visualizations. It looks like our ability to make sense of them changes over time
April 20
"Perhaps muppetness is a genetic mutation to which both humans & animals are susceptible?" On the origin of Muppets
Is PowerPoint Turing-complete? Someone built a few Turing Machines (tape & everything) as presentations to find out
Cormac McCarthy on the unconscious/animal origins of language. First nonfiction publication; still reads like him
Sometime in the past decade, "woke" pop culture criticism became the norm, even in outlets that once resisted it
April 19
Apparently, there was an enormous food fight in the CIA cafeteria in 1965? leading to "three or four" firings
Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr has an amazing story, and it's well-told in this long profile
April 18
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In five years, the New York Times has written 36 articles about the HBO series Girls. The full list at The @Awl:
April 13
Nintendo is discontinuing the NES Classic! What the hell?!
April 12
On the design of windshield wipers. I'm glad someone finds stuff like this as interesting as I do.
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The Crowdsourceress, a book by Alex Daly with advice on how to run successful crowdfunding campaigns
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