Small Findings

The findings this week:

Beverly Cleary in the 1930s

My Own Two Feet (autobiography)

Sun Ra in Alabama and Chicago

Space Is The Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra by John F. Szwed

How to evaluate air purifiers with Fred

Clean air delivery rate

Footnote 1 from Fred: "Regarding air filtration in commercial spaces, what I said was generally true for offices, commercial spaces, chemical labs, and medical spaces. Generally there's focus on air quality through outside air intake. However, there is a particular sector that focuses heavily on recirculated air filtration, and that's cleanrooms."

Footnote 2 from Fred: "The CADR to square foot ratio of 2/3 corresponds to 5 air changes per hour. That is to say, an air purifier in the recommended space for its CADR will filter all the air in the space five times per hour, or once every 12 minutes. The "bad" air purifier I mentioned has enough CADR to do 2 air changes per hour in its marketed space of 1100 square feet. It does say "cleans the room in 30 minutes" on its product web page but I wouldn't expect a lay person to know that that is below the AHAM's recommended air cleaning rate. If someone smoked a cigarette in a room and it took an air purifier 30 minutes to make the smell go away I would call that poor performance."

Fredrick Douglass on discussing slavery

History of Ideas episode

My Bondage and My Freedom on gutenberg

Adam Buxton discusses making jingles with found music

Adam Buxton Tape Notes episode

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The findings this week:

Getting paid for art, submitting the work of bots to calls for art

Allison Tanenhaus, glitch artist

Codaworx (art broker)

RAL Companies and Affiliates LLC's Fairmont Ave condo

Hills bot

Code to make Hills bot create a specific set of hills

Slop Cube (the bot whose work was turned down)

My other bots

How to repeat random decisions

SVG

How NOT to replace Roomba tires

The name Seph

The post on josephg.com

Filamentation

Wikipedia on Filamentation

CRLF and minified JavaScript

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The findings this week:

Text findings

Miscellaneous Findings IV (web odd and ends)

Miscellaneous Findings V (the doings of servers)

How to make your own pasta and what it's like

The Play-Doh Fun Factory (which I misrembered; it looks nothing like a pasta machine!)

A picture of a real pasta machine

Snuff

The Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe

My post on the first book in the series that the Arrow of God is in

Wikipedia on Snuff

Bonus Cat and Dr. Wily are actually right

Dr. Borns-Weil on All Things Considered

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The findings this week:

A book podcast I'm doing with some friends

Rehydrate

Autocorrelation

Companion blog post that uses numbers in the explanation

Why You Hear What You Hear

LLCs and legal insurance

Does Forming an LLC or Corporation Fully Protect You From Liability?

Massachusetts law about homestead

Expedition with Alex 2: Crossing the bridge over Route 2

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The findings this week:

Surnameless cultures

The Hidden History of Burma

Wikipedia on Mononyms

Javanese names

The gömböc

Wikipedia on the gömböc

Lenin's style and stance on state capitalism

V.I. Lenin's “Left-Wing” Childishness

Jeffrey Toobin's True Crimes and Misdemeanors review

Episode 3, with a segment about China's state capitalism

Lenin's Wikipedia article

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The findings this week:

Expedition with Alex: The bridge over Route 2 and the top of Alewife Station

The Lightning Field

An account of visiting the Lightning Field in the New Yorker

Wikipedia: Alewife Station

Map between Alewife Station and Encore Boston Harbor

The "Marketplace of Ideas" veneer in effect in 1933

Out from under their rock: Nazis fly their flag outside the State House

Drivers Are Hitting Protesters as Memes of Car Attacks Spread

The Work Force

Work Force home page

Housing Authority made own system for teens, and four years after high school show it works

The mystery of the library book drop

Contactless Pickup at the Cambridge Public Library

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The findings this week:

Polio

Wikipedia on Polio

The 1956 Polio Epidemic

Fooling the coronavirus proofreading machinery

White people closing ranks around atrocities, then and now

The Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery

Emmett Till on Wikipedia

Hundreds of armed counter-protesters confront Black Lives Matter rally in Ohio

White Defendant Allegedly Used Racial Slur After Killing Ahmaud Arbery

Where Ahmaud Arbery Ran, Neighbors Cast Wary Eyes

The Cambridge Police

Cambridge police superintendent owns up to spewing about Joe Kennedy, Ed Markey on department Twitter account

Denied official report of police tweet discipline, councillors issue their own censure for incident

Motion over redirecting $4.1M in police funding causes council to explode in anger, accusations - Cambridge Day

Councillor stalls order to see police property list, citing 'systemic racism' over checking testimony

March to defund the police in Cambridge

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The findings this week:

Text findings

Miscellaneous Findings I (mostly about businesses)

Miscellaneous Findings II (video editing commands)

Regular and gravitational lensing

Wikipedia lens article

Wikipedia optical telescope article

The Bold Plan to See Continents and Oceans on Another Earth

Wikipedia gravitational lens article

The anachronism and lightness in the beginning of the Lord of the Rings

The appeal of Lord of the Rings to five-year-olds

InvestiGators

Dog Man

Burger seasoning

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The findings this week:

Parchment paper and pizza

Wikipedia on parchment paper

Can You Heat Parchment Paper Higher Than Manufacturers Recommend?

How restaurants are affected by the practices of delivery companies

Universal Hub on the Boston City Council hearing about delivery companies

The Daily: Reopening, Warily

Wikipedia on Foodler

GrubHub pricing overview (PDF)

Uber Eats pricing

The Postmates Problem: Why Some Restaurants Are Forced to Fight the Delivery App

Even If You're Trying To Avoid Grubhub By Calling Your Favorite Restaurant Directly, Grubhub Could Still Be Charging It A Fee

Facing fury over ‘fake websites,’ Grubhub says restaurants have it wrong

GrubHub, Doordash Accused in Suit of Pushing Prices Higher

GrubHub to add restaurants without permission

‘We Don’t Even Do Takeout’: Why, Then, Is This Restaurant on Seamless?

New York City Council votes to cap food-delivery app fees at 15% during states of emergency

The secret of Pasqually's

Trying to Support a Local Pizza Joint? Just Make Sure It Isn't Actually Chuck E. Cheese

Hot Garbage

The surprising power of puffy cats

Bonus Cat, undeterred in 2020

Dirrty Puff in 2009

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The findings this week:

How to paint black without actually using black, from Sam

Sam's site

The Witch of Endor

Wikipedia

The Visitation, a podcast about the Plague in London

Purcell: Funeral Sentences for the Death of Queen Mary II Z27 : I March

Purcell: Saul and the Witch of Endor, Z. 134: "In guilty night"

Surprising businesses I stumbled upon in Cambridge

Adaptive Surface Technologies COVID-19 response

Sky & Telescope

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory on Wikipedia

Minor Planet Center

Magnetars

Milky Way Magnetar Makes Fast Radio Burst

Independent detection of the radio burst reported in ATel

CDNs

The thing at the end of the faucet

Faucet aerator

Redux

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