Click-Farms, Screen Time, and Designing Carpets
Librarians are really getting good at social media.
An essay from someone who maybe doesn’t like working from home (and who is trying to cope with that fact).
A group of Wikipedia editors wrote 15,000 articles on US roads and highways, but after a fight over the platform's rules, they took a detour.
The view from within Vietnam’s “click-farms”:
A lot of interesting survey data about how US parents and teens approach screen time.
Why don’t we remember much from before age 7?
Getty makes nearly 88,000 images free to use however you want.
Welcome to the valley of the creepy AI dolls:
Victoria Benedictsson assumed a male identity, achieved literary stardom, and took her own life. Then Strindberg stole it.
An oral history of LimeWire.
Designing the carpets that design us.
How a plan to use graphene in medical gloves turned into a project to use balloons to launch satellites into space.
How to grow old like Isabella Rossellini (and of a kind with that piece: an obituary for Iris Apfel, who was an American interior designer, collector and stylist regarded as one of the great exotics of 20th-century fashion).
Battle scenes depicted in moving pictures before CGI.
Retired American diplomat documents his 10,000th bird.
Weather forecasts have become much more accurate: