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Stories of Rainbow and Lucky Handie by Jacob Abbott, 1859. I’ve been wanting to cover this series for some time. It’s an unusual series from the mid-19th century, written on the eve of the American Civil War, by a white author with a young black hero. Rainbow is a teenage black boy who, in this first installment of the series, is hired by a young carpenter, who is only a …

By David Tuller, DrPH A new study of an online group physical and psychological rehabilitation program for Long Covid confirms once again that people given an intervention purporting to help them are more likely to tell investigators that they feel better than those given nothing of the kind. People, this is not a surprising result! … Trial By Error: New Long Covid Exercise-and-Therapy Study Claims Success Despite Clinically Insignificant Findings …

Great news today: TCM has announced that the TCM Classic Film Festival will be returning to the Egyptian Theatre this April.Ben Mankiewicz made the announcement in a video shot at the theater.This was especially good news as a November article at The Wrap had cast considerable doubt about the festival's future at the Egyptian. Happily those concerns have now been put to rest.In a nice coincidence, I was just at …

Since its release in November 2022, almost everyone involved with technology has experimented with ChatGPT: students, faculty, and professionals in almost every discipline. Almost every company has undertaken AI projects, including companies that, at least on the face of it, have “no AI” policies. Last August, OpenAI stated that 80% of Fortune 500 companies have ChatGPT accounts. Interest and usage have increased as OpenAI has released more capable versions of …

As the saying goes, there’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing. So while winter may bring chill winds, icy terrain, and downpours, a carefully considered wardrobe will help you head out the front door with a smile. Our friends at Huckberry have a world-class curated collection of quality gear to help you stay warm and dry during winter, and we’ve chosen some of our favorite pieces below. …

The winter season draws to a close in the Netherlands, although you can hardly call it winter this year. February has already claimed the title of the warmest February ever recorded. However, there was a glimpse of real winter in …

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A guest post by Dr Cheryl Doig, visionary Futurist and Founder of Think Beyond in New Zealand. In September 2023, Cheryl hosted a series of webinars and training sessions in collaboration with the School of International Futures (SOIF), dedicated to exploring and applying the Intergenerational Fairness Framework and Toolkit. She shares the progress made towards operationalising IGF principles, demonstrating the steps taken to promote equitable futures through informed dialogue and …

Logo Rhythm: Band Logos that Rocked the World (on Kickstarter) features more than 90 design stories behind iconic band logos from the 1960s to present day. “Many of the band logo design trailblazers are no longer with us. Some of their stories have been lost in the mists of time. Logo Rhythm does its damnedest to put this right. To give credit where it’s due. To sing the praises of …

Yuhki Danvers on Twitter: 5 months ago Patrick Harpin walked into Warner Bros. Pictures / DC Comics and pitched a Batman Beyond Animated Feature. Before we pitched, they warned us “there is absolutely no way we can do a Beyond movie”, but they loved our enthusiasm. We pitched the outline for the entire film, and what started as a “never” turned into a “maybe”. In the time since, we’ve been …

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]This is the Union Pacific Railroad’s Austin Subdivision in central Texas. It’s a busy corridor that moves both freight and passengers north and south between Austin and San Antonio… But it’s mostly freight. Trains run twenty-four-seven here, carrying goods like rock from nearby quarries, cement, vehicles, intermodal freight, and more. So, when Crystal Clear Special Utility District was planning …

Matthew Ball wrote a fun essay earlier this month entitled On Spatial Computing, Metaverse, the Terms Left Behind and Ideas Renewed, tracing the various terms that have been used to describe, well, that’s what the essay is about: virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, Metaverse, are words that have been floating around for decades now, both in science fiction and in products, to describe what Apple is calling spatial computing. …

I've been working on Carl, my IMAP e-mail client, for the past few months. Your browser doesn't seem to support HTML video. You can download the video in H.264/AAC format instead. I need to work on not saying "like" so much. Video notes: Remaining PowerBook 1xx Batteries Subtext 4 Kludge BBS on Mastodon IMAP4rev2 rev2 RFC Encoded-word RFC MicroBug and SM 0 A9F4 and G 0 MacsBug My stack walking …

This is a very niche post, which I write simply to help others who fall in the niche with me; the rest of you can move right along. As I’ve mentioned before in passing, my RSS reader of choice these days is Reader, from the team that brought us Readwise (itself an estimable “highlight and catalog what you read” app in its own right). Reader reads RSS feeds, but it’s …