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WEBShiny and Chrome. A site called Chromeography collects chrome logos and typography from vintage cars & electric appliances. As I was looking through these, I wondered: “What the hell is chrome anyway?” So I looked it up:. Chrome plating (less commonly chromium plating) is a technique of electroplating a thin layer of chromium onto a metal object.
The Surprising Ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776
WEBAug 13, 2013 · Some more ages, just for reference: Thomas Jefferson, 33. John Adams, 40. Paul Revere, 41. George Washington, 44. Samuel Adams, 53. The oldest prominent participant in the Revolution, by a wide margin, was Benjamin Franklin, who was 70 years old on July 4, 1776. Franklin was a full two generations …
Honor and Respect: how to address President Obama and Donald …
WEBJan 23, 2017 · In his book Honor & Respect, he covers the “correct written and oral forms of address for everyone from local officials to foreign heads of state”. For The President of the United States, the proper forms of address are: Letter salutation: Dear Mr. President: Complimentary close: Most respectfully,
Science and Our Personal Bodily Freedoms - kottke.org
WEBAug 13, 2024 · Science and Our Personal Bodily Freedoms. This piece by Lydia Polgreen on The Strange Report Fueling the War on Trans Kids is so good — straightforward and informative, especially when compared to the incoherent nonsense that the NY Times has run about trans people over the past few years. The piece is about, in Polgreen’s words, “the sneaky effort to use what looks like science to ...
Public Work: A Fast Search Engine for Public Domain Images
WEBJul 31, 2024 · Public Work is an image search engine that boasts 100,000 “copyright-free” images from institutions like the NYPL, the Met, etc. It’s fast with a relatively simple interface and uses AI to auto-categorize and suggest possibly related images (both visually and content-wise). And it’s fun to just visually click around on related images ...
Great Art Explained: Michelangelo’s David - kottke.org
WEBJun 30, 2021 · Today’s watch was a 15-minute explanation of one of the signature masterpieces of the Renaissance, Michelangelo’s David. The details related to the carving of the swollen jugular vein and the variable visibility of the veins in the hands is fantastic. (via open culture) art. art school. James Payne. Michelangelo.
Pixar’s Inside Out movies have changed how therapists talk a...
WEBposted Aug 20, 2024 by Jason Kottke. Pixar’s Inside Out movies have changed how therapists talk about feelings with their patients. And not just kids: “I’ve been stealing lines from the movie and quoting them to adults, not telling them that I’m quoting.”.
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WEBOctober 2. " A cheap malaria vaccine that can be produced on a massive scale has been recommended for use by the World Health Organization (WHO)." Each dose is only $2-4 (4 doses/person) and 100 million doses/yr are already lined up to be produced. How the Elon Musk biography exposes Walter Isaacson.
Creating Livable City Streets - kottke.org
WEBJan 9, 2019 · Creating Livable City Streets. In 1981, a Berkeley urban design professor named Donald Appleyard published a book called Livable Streets (now out of print). In it, he described the results of research he’d done in the late 1960s about the effects of car traffic on the people who live in cities. For the study, he selected three similar ...
Why Some of the Rainbow Is Missing - kottke.org
WEBNov 1, 2023 · Joe Hanson explains in the video above. Over 200 years ago, scientists were looking at sunlight through a prism when they noticed that part of the rainbow was missing. There were dark lines where there should have been colors. Since then, scientists have unlocked the secrets encoded in these lines, using …
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