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Interessante artikelen en andere links registreer ik via Pinboard. Deze worden wekelijks, op zondagavond, gebundeld weggeschreven. Hier vind je het archief. - The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science
- They distort the nature of the scientific enterprise, rewrite its history, and overlook many of its most important contributors.
- Vikings in paradise
- Were the Norse the first to settle the Azores?
- Auditing Design Systems for Accessibility
- In this blog post, I hope to inform my fellow designers especially about where we need to come in for accessibility considerations.
- Women's pain is routinely underestimated, and gender stereotypes are to blame – new research
- Both male and female observers are susceptible to the false belief that women exaggerate their pain.
- Babies are full of microplastics, new research shows
- When comparing stool samples between babies and adults, scientists found up to 15 times more microplastics.
- Clearview AI Has New Tools to Identify You in Photos
- In an interview with WIRED, CEO Hoan Ton-That said the company has scraped 10 billion photos from the web—and developed new ways to aid police surveillance.
- Tiny Helpers
- A collection of free single-purpose online tools for web developers...
- e-Bikes laden op een tegeltje
- Slepen met accu’s, klungelen met kabels: het opladen van een elektrische fiets gaat een stuk minder soepel dan het vervoermiddel zelf.
- The Bay Area town that drove out its Chinese residents for nearly 100 years
- Before the white residents of Antioch burned down Chinatown in 1876, they banned Chinese people from walking the city streets after sunset.
- Mermaids and Tritons in the Age of Reason
- how humanity’s supposed aquatic ancestors became wondrous screens on which to project theories of geographical, racial, and taxonomical difference.
- Pandemic Bird-Watching Created a Data Boom—and a Conundrum
- Avid amateurs are generating a wealth of information on avian activity. But does that data reflect new trends in bird behavior, or in people’s?
- The Power of the Link
- The native vs. web debate often focuses on feature capabilities: native is rich while the web is lacking, always trying to catch up. But there’s one feature where the web has proven to be light years ahead of native: the lowly link.
- Vastende gelovigen roeiden waterdier uit
- Hun staart leek op die van een vis. Dus was het prima om ze te eten in de vastentijd – massaal. De paus zei het zelf.
- What Silicon Valley "Gets" about Software Engineers that Traditional Companies Do Not
- How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum
- 'JIRA has been mentioned mostly with negative associations' Ha!
- Preload, prefetch and other <link> tags
- what they do and when to use them
- Medieval Myths Bingo
- There are a lot of myths and misconceptions about “The” Middle ages. This era lasted roughly 1000 years and life was very different at certain times and in different places, so it is a bit silly and difficult to make blanket statements about this subject.
- Did Agincourt Archers Really Invent Swearing With A Two-Fingered Salute V-Sign?
- Learn the true story behind Henry V’s incredible victory at Agincourt in 1415
- The NSA and CIA Use Ad Blockers Because Online Advertising Is So Dangerous
- De wreedste mannelijke regimes zijn bang voor vrouwen die studeren
- Lezing: De Italiaanse schrijfster Elena Ferrante hield donderdagavond op het ILFU in Utrecht de Belle van Zuylen-lezing. Ze bracht een vurig pleidooi voor goed onderwijs voor vrouwen als belangrijke emancipatiefactor.
- Schijf for Life
- Plantaardig voedingsadvies
- Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story.
- Tampons Can Save Your Life in the Backcountry
- We asked survival experts for advice on how to use them for much more than the obvious
- Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever
- HermanCainAward Subreddit
- the unbelievable grimness of celebrating anti-vaxxer COVID deaths
- Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) 23 September 2021
- Netflix Acquires Roald Dahl Story Company, Plans Cross Format Universe
- [..] with a total production budget around $1 billion.
- Why Progressive Web Applications (PWA) Make JavaScript Frameworks Obsolete
- PWAs depend on service workers, a powerful background script. They can perform much of the work servers & JavaScript frameworks do, making frameworks obsolete.
- A Twitter Addict Realizes She Needs Rehab
- How could I have succumbed to this common, embarrassing habit that just about everyone on Earth knows is a scourge?
- Het koningshuis is nergens goed voor
- Onze vorst lijkt de ideale omstandigheden te creëren om zichzelf, zijn nageslacht en het vaderland te bevrijden van de monarchie
- Take A Closer Look At The Intricate Costumes And Funky Nose Plugs Of Dune
- Diversiteit als toetje - Heeft het filosofieonderwijs een probleem?
- Filosofie is voor álle leerlingen. Maar wie weleens een schoolboek voor filosofie openslaat, ziet dat dit anders lijkt. Bijna alleen maar mannelijke en witte filosofen staan in het examenprogramma.
- Afghan women are sharing photos of dresses to protest the Taliban's black hijab mandate
- Covid-19 in schools
- The unvaccinated US teacher who infected 12 students with Covid