Cool Stuff Ride Home

Mon. 07/12 - The Heliopause That Refreshes


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Houseplants became Instagram models in 2020 driving sales up by billions and overwhelming mail-order and garden-supply stores; we know a lot more about the bulbous shape of the sun’s shield against the ravages of the interstellar medium due to data gathered over a decade; and creators learn more about reclaiming their copyright after decades have passed.

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    How the Pandemic Has Changed the Houseplant Industry—and Why (House Beautiful)
  • Are all those houseplants people got during COVID still alive? (APM Markpetplace)
  • Partly Sunny Projects (Sonja Detrinidad)
  • Demand outpacing supply on house plants during pandemic (KMBC News)
  • Covid lockdowns turned buying plants into the next big pandemic trend — for good reason (NBC News THINK)
  • Q&A: What Causes Variegation? (Horticulture Magazine)
  • New Zealand houseplant sells for $19,200 in online bidding war (CNN)
  • Rhaphidophora tetrasperma (Exotic Rainforest)
  • The Effects of The Number of Indoor Foliage Plants on Productivity, Stress and Attention (CLIMA 2013 International Conference)
  • The solar wind bubble that protects Earth has been mapped for the first time (MIT Technology Review)
  • A Three-dimensional Map of the Heliosphere from IBEX (The Astrophysical Journal Supplement)
  • Who’s Gotten Their Copyright Back? (Kottke.org)
  • George Clinton Denied Rights to His Own Work (MTV)
  • George Clinton Wins Funkadelic Rights (New York Times)
  • U.S. Copyright Termination Notices 1977-2020: Introducing New Datasets (Journal of Empirical Legal Studies)
  • Termination of Transfers and Licenses Under 17 U.S.C. §203 (U.S. Copyright Office)
  • Quantifying copyright reversion (Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic)


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