Sapere Aude
Tag: blogs
Beautiful News Daily has been posting infographics and data visualizations that share some good news about the world. The site’s tagline is “unseen trends, uplifting stats, creative solutions”.
a balanced media diet contains good news. this is a good source.
everything is heritable, Technological challenges and milestones for writing genomes, How often do researchers not read the papers they cite? etc
The design website Core77 has a weekly feature called Design Roast, devoted to making fun of bad industrial design. My “favorite” this time around is a portable leather chess board with rubber pieces that you are meant to wrap around stones you gather before you can play. This is a leather chess board that comes with silicone bands delineating the pieces; you’re meant to find and gather rocks to tie the bands around, in order to complete the pieces (I’m not kidding). I’d like to see a Checkers variant of this–it would come with the board, a sausage, a zucchini, and a chef’s knife.
Examples “We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it”… “Even a blind squirrel is right twice a day”… “If a bear shits in the woods, does it make a sound?”… “An apple a day leaves the whole world blind”
Early stories below are mostly about travel, since the food part really came in later. It wasn’t until I got to China and then Southeast Asia that food became the thing that led me from place to place, learning as much as I could. I’ve written before how friends from law school find my food obsession laughable because then I just didn’t really pay attention to what I was eating. My name is Jodi, and I am a former careless eater.
so true
This is amazing. There’s a lot of room at the bottom.
so good
i used to go to Worldchanging for a slate of good news, now i guess you’ll want to look to well-meaning plutocrats.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 