Lou Ottens, the Dutch inventor who pioneered the compact disc and invented the cassette tape — the medium of choice for millions of homemade mix tapes — has died at a care facility in the Netherlands. Ottens died March 6 at 94, the Dutch electronic conglomerate Philips announced.
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I Miss My Bar
What a beautiful, fun little website. Love the typography, love the colors, love that the whole thing is such a fun dumb concept. Make something cool and share it with the world.
Get ready to feel old: The “All Your Base” music video turns 20 today
As the Internet began crystallizing into its modern form—one that now arguably buttresses society as we know it—its anthropology of common language and references matured at a strange rate.
Eric Topol
Update of anaphylaxis from mRNA vaccines: 66 cases out of ~18 million vaccinations (=0.00000003%). All but 1 within 11 minutes. No deaths. @JAMA_current https://t.co/JYqimmrRk5
garadinervi
«At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book. We never destroy a book by cutting off its binding. Instead, we digitize it the hard way—one page at a time. We use the Scribe, a book scanner…
Apple Watch Can Detect Covid-19 a Week Early, Study Finds
In the early days of the pandemic, dozens of researchers launched studies trying to see whether wearables of all sorts could potentially identify covid-19 before symptoms began.
Who Really Created the Marvel Universe?
In the early nineteen-forties, decades before he was Stan the Man, the impresario of the Marvel Universe, Stanley Martin Lieber fetched coffee, took notes, and sat on desks playing the piccolo—or perhaps the ocarina—in the offices of his uncle’s comic-book company.
Bitcoin is Half a Tulip…
I have no real opinion on Bitcoin — I understand the basics of blockchain and mining, but I have nothing in the way of any unique insight or “edge” as to what its potential valuation might be. Hence, why your normally opinionated host usually has so little to say about it.
Blogging as a forgiving medium
Artists speak of unforgiving mediums. I am attracted to pastel as a medium because of the gamble involved in its execution.
No internet, no vaccine: How lack of internet has limited vaccine access for racial minorities
Three researchers who study health disparities are seeing increasing evidence that a lack of internet access is preventing people in racial and ethnic minority groups from getting vaccines.