Explore ‘The Last Supper’ — Google Arts & Culture Open Ocean Exploration on Twitter: “The first account of a scientist getting slapped by a jellyfish-wielding octopus occurred in the prestigious journal Science in 1963 when a young blanket octopus used a man-o-war to sting the author, resulting in the pa Seamus Hughes on Twitter: “They…they […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2020-06-14
Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid on Twitter: ““Why do you not write on your clay tablet? Why do you not rehearse your exercise tablet?” Sherua-etirat, a Neo-Assyrian princess, writes to her sister-in-law to scold her for not doing her homework in the 7th century Behind the Byline With Ed Yong – The Atlanticscience is “less the parade […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2020-06-07
Bankrupt Hertz Wants In on Robinhood’s Investors – BloombergThis theory is that the stock market is a fun casino, and you should buy stocks because they will go up and down in exciting fashion and might make you rich quick. This is a very old theory, and I suspect that for much of the history of financial […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2020-05-31
Leaflet Storymaps with Google Sheets and Scrolling Narrative | Hands-On Data Visualization Sorting | Grid.js […]
Random Work- End of May Edtion
So lots of random work going on. We’re trying to knock out a variety of projects prior to some work on flexible course design with a bunch of people. I spent a lot of time in meetings. I spent a lot of time building content, some grant writing stuff, and rearranging various websites. Thee following […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2020-05-24
Canon U.S.A., Inc. | EOS Webcam UtilityWon’t work with Zoom but tempting . . . Chapter 1 | Chatting with Glue Sa11y – accessibility quality assurance assistant – Ryerson University Queer Paranormal ????? on Twitter: “Listen, I just need y’all to read this https://t.co/lrM1jGGTIC” / Twitter Automated – IBM Accessibility Teaching Online by Going Offline: […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2020-05-17
elizabeth ballou on Twitter: “NYU made a bizarre attempt at an MMO called “Grad Alley” that recreates parts of campus for graduating students. I cannot describe how bad it is. a random assemblage of textures. auto-generated usernames. nonsensical tools. e How we organized one of the largest virtual U.S. journalism events to dateOne approach to […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2020-05-10
This X Does Not ExistUsing generative adversarial networks (GAN), we can learn how to create realistic-looking fake versions of almost anything, as shown by this collection of sites that have sprung up in the past month. Gut Check Rule of Fives / Elite FTSBe prudent, and AVOID VOMITING. That is no marker of intensity; it […]
Recent Work from the Week of May 11
More random work. Much of this week was Protein Viewer for WordPress It has been interesting to look back over how this has evolved and the span of technologies involved. I’m still looking at the sheer number of options for molecule viewing. The plugin is on github but is still a first-draft. It does use […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2020-05-03
Hero Shrews’ Extreme, Superstrong Backbones Are the Stuff of Legends | Smart News | Smithsonian MagazineEach of their vertebrae are dense and heavily reinforced—features that make the spine sturdier—and fringed with fingerlike projections that interlock the bones together when the shrews contract their muscles. 3Dmol.js – A modern, object-oriented JavaScript library for visualizing molecular dataA […]