Good Reads
- Eclipse Science and the Mystery (and Mistake) of Coronium - Atlas Obscurawww.atlasobscura.com Coronium, One of the Most Enduring Mysteries (and Mistakes) in Eclipse Science
During the 1869 total solar eclipse, astronomers thought they had discovered a new element. They were wrong, and the truth was much weirder.
> It was July 1869, and astronomers were making frantic preparations. A total solar eclipse was coming to the United States, and new, fundamental knowledge was going to be there for the taking, by whoever got there first. Scientific expeditions were planned to travel into the path of totality to peer at the Sun, and the rare sight of its ghostly, pale outer atmosphere.
- The Respected Oxford Professors Who Say They Time Traveledwww.atlasobscura.com The Respected Oxford Professors Who Say They Time Traveled
Two Victorian academics believed they saw Marie Antoinette at Versailles.
> On a hot August afternoon in France, 1901, Miss Elizabeth Morison and Miss Frances Lamont, on holiday from England, took a trip to visit the Palace of Versailles, a former royal residence some twelve miles west of Paris. “We went by train,” they would later recall, “and walked through the rooms and galleries of the Palace with interest.” But it was not to be the pleasant day out that the ladies had anticipated.
- The Weird and Wonderful World of Sex Under the Sea - Atlas Obscurawww.atlasobscura.com The Weird and Wonderful World of Sex Under the Sea
From penis dueling to pee potions to switching sexes, there’s no one right way of getting it on in the ocean.
Interesting stuff!
- Habitual social media users post real and fake news mindlesslydornsife.usc.edu Habitual social media users post real and fake news mindlessly
Habitual and nonhabitual social media users respond differently to likes, shares and comments.
- "Make Good Art" delivered by Neil Gaimanjamesclear.com "Make Good Art"
Read the full transcript of the speech "Make Good Art" by Neil Gaiman.
This speech was delivered as the keynote address for the May 17, 2012 commencement ceremony at The University of the Arts.
- Ancient Egyptians measured the first hour, and changed how we related to timetheconversation.com Ancient Egyptians measured the first hour, and changed how we related to time
Some time measurements, like months and years, use the movements of the moon and sun, respectively. But other time measurements, like the hour, aren’t clearly connected to astronomical phenomena.
- The Case for Leaving Strangers in Your Family Photosslate.com People Are Manipulating Their Family Photos in a Weird New Way. I Don’t Think They Should.
You can easily cut out random strangers with a click, but you're losing something amazing in the process.
- A good conversation relaxes the mind and opens the heart | Aeon Essaysaeon.co A good conversation relaxes the mind and opens the heart | Aeon Essays
A good conversation bridges the distances between people and imbues life with pleasure and a sense of discovery
- What happened to Google Chrome since 2008
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1554099
> It used to be a user friendly lightweight browser. > > Now it’s hardly recognizable from its launch. It’s heavy bloated and slurps up user data into invasive user profiles. > > Those individual user profiles are rolled up into buckets of collective thoughts ripe for analysis and manipulation. > > Can I get this group of people to buy my product? To read my book? To vote the way I want them to? To pay attention to this national issue? To ignore that one?
- The Trust Thermoclinethreadreaderapp.com Thread by @garius on Thread Reader App
@garius: One of the things I occasionally get paid to do by companies/execs is to tell them why everything seemed to SUDDENLY go wrong, and subs/readers dropped like a stone. So, with everything going on at Twitter...…
John Bull - One of the things I occasionally get paid to do by companies/execs is to tell them why everything seemed to SUDDENLY go wrong, and subs/readers dropped like a stone.