The forgotten medieval habit of 'two sleeps' - BBC Future
bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleepFor millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?
The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk - CDM Create Digital Music
cdm.link/2021/11/the-prince-symbol-has-been-salvaged-from-a-1992-floppy-disk/Prince was way ahead of non-fungible tokens - with a symbol that was intended to make life a pain-in-the-a** for the record label. (Non-f***able totem?) And now Anil Dash and Limor Fried/Adafruit have brought back that image from a floppy.
By Design
megconley.com/by-design/The history of kitchen design is full of feminist utopias founded on white supremacy.
Stay alert - DEV Community
dev.to/richharris/stay-alert-dA short while ago, Chrome broke the web by disabling alert(), confirm() and prompt() dialogs from... Tagged with javascript.
Why are hyperlinks blue?
blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/deep-dives/why-are-hyperlinks-blue/We took a deep dive into the history of interfaces and link designs over the years to track down the origin of the blue link we know today.
CARI | the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute
cari.institute/Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute
The Third Reich Was Addicted to Drugs | The New Republic
newrepublic.com/article/141125/third-reich-addicted-drugsAt the start of the war, Hitler suffered from gas. Soon, he was taking a cocktail of morphine, crystal meth, and laxatives, a new history reveals.
Extreme poverty isn’t natural, it’s created — Jason Hickel
jasonhickel.org/blog/2021/3/28/extreme-poverty-isnt-natural-it-is-createdNew research questions the dominant narrative about long-term poverty trends.
The 100 Most Influential Sequences in Animation History
vulture.com/article/most-influential-best-scenes-animation-history.htmlFrom Bugs Bunny to Spike Spiegel to Miles Morales, the 128-year history of a boundless art form that continues to draw us all in.
Why Do We Blame Women For Prohibition? - POLITICO Magazine
politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/13/prohibition-women-blame-history-223972One hundred years later, it’s time to challenge a long-held bias.