Things I have recently spotted that may
be of interest to someone else:
The Arts: Gizmo's Freeware describes a search engine that
turns up public
domain art, from art museums. See graphic, which comes from the New York Public Library:
Computing: Gizmodo reports that the National Weather Service's computing structure is in danger of failure, at times when we need it most.
Gizmodo links to a tool that lets you see if your phone number was among those acquired in a massive Facebook data leak. (Mine wasn't, thank God!)
Education: More than half of the US states have names coming from Native American languages.
Environment: Former Environmental Protection Agency head, Scott Pruitt, did his best to cripple the agency's science advisory boards, for example by placing people on them that claimed that air pollution is good for us. The Biden administration is working to reverse the damage.
Gizmodo reports that the cherry blossoms in Japan are blooming earlier than they've bloomed within the past 1200 years.
Politics: The Pacific Standard analyzes gun laws, and finds that you are more likely to be shot in states that have less restrictive gun laws.
FiveThirtyEight discusses media distrust among Republicans.
And FiveThirtyEight tells us why, after losing the senate and the white house, Republicans aren't looking to change anything.
The graphic usually used in these posts (below) is from NASA, hence, it is free to use like this.
Thanks for looking!
