Kintsugi is the Japanese practice of mending broken pottery repair with visible “scars”. For a marketing campaign, Oreo sold tubes of their frosting so people could repair their broken Oreos in the same way. https://kottke.org/24/06/oreo-kintsugi
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Great news about HIV protection: “Results from a large clinical trial in Africa showed that a twice-yearly injection of a new antiviral drug gave young women total protection from the virus.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/health/lenacapavir-hiv-pr...Great news about HIV protection: “Results from a large clinical trial in Africa showed that a twice-yearly injection of a new antiviral drug gave young women total protection from the virus.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/health/lenacapavir-hiv-prevention-africa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1k0.48pH.ML6CbYVKmd5v
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Walmart is switching to electronic price tags that “allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds”.Walmart is switching to electronic price tags that “allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds”. No one wants this!! No one wants surge pricing on ice cream and price increases on items already in your cart. https://www.npr.org/2024/06/17/nx-s1-5009271/electronic-shelf-labels-prices-walmart-grocery-store
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How heat affects our brains: it makes us dumber, irritable, impulsive, and aggressive (i.e.How heat affects our brains: it makes us dumber, irritable, impulsive, and aggressive (i.e. don’t blame me if the site sucks today, it feels like 97° here and I don’t have A/C). https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/well/mind/heat-affect-brain-emotions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.000._KgR.uR0e2BTcYdLw
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An Apple Watch reimagined in the style of a Newton.An Apple Watch reimagined in the style of a Newton. Love the app icons for Bluesky, BBEdit, and Marathon. https://bsky.app/profile/nanoraptor.danamania.com/post/3kuwhczwlok2d
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A modern approach to habitat restoration: Leave It To Beavers.A modern approach to habitat restoration: Leave It To Beavers. “At their very most basic, beavers store water. They build dams; think of them sort of as speed bumps in the stream. The pools and eddies they create are entire new spawning areas for fish.” https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/beavers-king-countys-modern-habitat-restoration
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New Wallace & Gromit movie coming!New Wallace & Gromit movie coming! Vengeance Most Fowl features the return of Feathers McGraw (scofflaw penguin from The Wrong Trousers) and a “smart” garden gnome built by Wallace that runs amok. Timely! https://kottke.org/24/06/wallace-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl
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The kids who were 1st graders when 20 of their classmates were murdered in Newtown, CT are graduating from high school.The kids who were 1st graders when 20 of their classmates were murdered in Newtown, CT are graduating from high school. “There is a whole chunk of our class missing.” More than 4200 mass shootings in the US since then, several of them at schools. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg33zqd5wyeo
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Boston Should Rename Its Airport for Bill Russell. “He was Boston’s greatest sports champion, and as a brave and steadfast civil-rights leader across half a century, an even greater man.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/boston-rename-...Boston Should Rename Its Airport for Bill Russell. “He was Boston’s greatest sports champion, and as a brave and steadfast civil-rights leader across half a century, an even greater man.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/boston-rename-logan-airport-bill-russell/678683/?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ2HRQB20CDW0yt6SxjxiV6w
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In case you or someone you know needs a little levity or pick-me-up today, might I suggest what might be the cutest thing that’s ever aired on television: a little girl named Joey and Kermit the Frog saying the alphabet. https://kottke.org/24/06/the-co...In case you or someone you know needs a little levity or pick-me-up today, might I suggest what might be the cutest thing that’s ever aired on television: a little girl named Joey and Kermit the Frog saying the alphabet. https://kottke.org/24/06/the-cookie-monster-alphabet
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World-first tooth-regrowing drug will be given to humans in September. “If successful, this therapy could be available to patients with any permanently missing teeth within six years.” https://newatlas.com/medical/tooth-regrowing-human-trial/World-first tooth-regrowing drug will be given to humans in September. “If successful, this therapy could be available to patients with any permanently missing teeth within six years.” https://newatlas.com/medical/tooth-regrowing-human-trial/
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“It’s not your imagination: a disproportionate number of women really do play bass guitar in rock bands.” Research shows there are a few reasons for this, one of which is that bass players are typically in short supply. https://daily.jstor.org/shes-all...“It’s not your imagination: a disproportionate number of women really do play bass guitar in rock bands.” Research shows there are a few reasons for this, one of which is that bass players are typically in short supply. https://daily.jstor.org/shes-all-about-that-bass/
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Announcing the Tiny Awards 2024, a competition to find and celebrate the “small, personal, whimsical, weird and poetic things people are making on what is left of the web”.Announcing the Tiny Awards 2024, a competition to find and celebrate the “small, personal, whimsical, weird and poetic things people are making on what is left of the web”. I’m a judge this year! Pls submit your projects! https://tinyawards.net/