Shadows of ice

Clowns at the circus

• The Louvre puts its entire collection online
  Only 22 years after the Hermitage.
• The science behind why dolphins in Australia are delivering "gifts"
  I know they just miss the free food, but the idea of dolphins delivering me coral is immensely appealing.
• The Endless Present, or Why You’re Getting Disclaimers On The Muppets These Days
  "Now that everything remains accessible we interact with our cultural past differently. More accurately, we don’t necessarily even realise that it’s from the past at all."
• Music, Makers & Machines: A Brief History of Electronic Music
  Interesting deep dive from Google Arts & Culture.
• Digitally Reading 17th-Century Locked Letters
  The technology here kicks off James P. Hogan's 1977 Inherit the Stars. Sci-fi only has a 44 year lead, looks like.
• Zillow Listings for Earth
  "TINY heating problem. STUNNING VINTAGE TREES on fire. The humans also redid all the floors in asphalt, which is a choice."
• Beatles producer George Martin’s lost electronic music to be reissued
  Ray Cathode! I love everything about this.
• How to poison the data that Big Tech uses to surveil you
  There's always power in collective action.
• Why Am I Anxious About the Pandemic Ending?
  "It feels like a betrayal of the promise of finally getting out to wonder if I want to. Of course I want to, but also I don’t want to simply go back"
• Look Mum No Computer makes Lego vinyl turntables
  Building beats.