- Mid-Century Modern Matchbox Labels From Eastern Bloc Countries (1950s-1980s)
- Elemental haiku
A review of the Periodic Table composed of 119 science haiku, one for each element, plus a closing haiku for element 119 (not yet synthesized). The haiku encompass astronomy, biology, chemistry, history, physics, and a bit of whimsical flair. Click or hover over an element on the Periodic Table to read the haiku. Share these poems and add your own on Twitter with hashtag #ChemHaiku.
- Tressie McMillan Cottom & Trevor Noah: Optimistic and Depressed | Death, Sex & Money | WNYC Studios
~23:30 is similar to how I think about the connection between optimism/depression.
- Nilay Patel on Facebook’s Reckoning With Reality—And the Metaverse-Size Problems Yet to Come | Vanity Fair
. So we started making a list of stories that would get Yahoo traffic, and we realized that the algorithm loves stories about fish.
So—true story—on really slow Fridays, the tiny team of Verge people would all Google the words “fish technology,” and we would write stories about fish. And we would collect a flood of Yahoo traffic. We called them “Fish Fridays.” It was very funny; there’s a lot of hilarious stories on The Verge from that early period because of it. But we also learned we should not pay attention to where the traffic is coming from like this. This is a bad outcome.
I think every journalist fundamentally knows this. Data can only tell you about the past. And that’s all that Facebook has ever been—a narrowing. “Today Facebook is interested in cheese, and now a major American newsroom has a cheese vertical,” is a real thing that happened in our society. That’s weird! But I would challenge the entire media industry to think as deeply about its relationship to Google search as it does about the Facebook algorithm. There’s a lot of games being played with the architecture of the news.