interesting links roundup #5
reading #
- A British Nurse Was Found Guilty of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It?
- A Tick Is Making Farmers Allergic to Their Own Animals
- The Big Red Word vs. the Little Green Man
- Bringing Up Babies
- The Degradation Drug
- Does Matt Mullenweg Want a Fork or Not?
- The Flying Car Is Finally Here. It’s Slightly Illegal.
- How to Talk to People When You Live Alone
- I got dysentery so you don’t have to
- The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
- Kurt Vonnegut’s lost board game finally published
- The Pain of Travelling While Palestinian
- Personal Best
- Rage bait is all the rage on Threads
- The Secretive Dynasty That Controls the Boar’s Head Brand
- The shady origins of the climate haven myth
- Social Media Tells You Who You Are. What if It’s Totally Wrong?
- We’re not going to run out of new anatomy anytime soon
- Who Pays for the Arts?
- Works by Pissarro, Renoir, and Avercamp Vanished. Here’s How an Amateur Art Sleuth Cracked the Case
- Writing in Pictures: Richard Scarry and the art of children’s literature
tools/reference #
- An Illustrated Guide to Maritime Signal Flags
- If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel: A tediously accurate map of the solar system
- Plotto by William Wallace Cook (1928) [for context, read this]
- Snapseed: Android, iOS
- These Apps Help People With Disabilities Travel More Easily