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Mon. 03/29 - Why The Lawyer Cat Filter Was a Default on Thousands of Computers


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A new fossil analysis that bolsters the theory that primates may have lived alongside dinosaurs––and somehow survived extinction. The high school girl who invented color-changing sutures that show when a wound has become infected. And why the filter made famous from the viral Lawyer Cat video was installed as a default setting on thousands of Dell computers.

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  • Links:

    Did ancient primates walk alongside T. rex? New evidence backs up theory. (National Geographic)
  • Our earliest primate ancestors rapidly spread after dinosaur extinction (Berkeley News)
  • This High Schooler Invented Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection (Smithsonian Magazine)
  • That Zoom Call with the Lawyer-Cat, Explained (The New Yorker) 
  • Zoom Cat Lawyer Rod Ponton Has Controversial Prosecutor Past (Insider)
  • Forever Given 
  • NUMTOT Tinder Is a Dating Site for Transit Nerds (The Atlantic) 
  • Kottke.Org
  • Jackson Bird on Twitter
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