Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about.
- NOAA Satellites Credited With Helping Save 304 Lives in 2020: Report. Something to tell people who say that we're wasting money on space.
- Why iPhone is today’s Kodak Brownie Camera. "From Brownie 1.0 to Brownie 2.0 aka the iPhone, you can see a continuation of human desire to make images. From cave paintings to oil paintings to now selfies, as we have evolved, so have our abilities to create images & our relationship with them."
- Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites. "Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. We conducted a large-scale study, analyzing ~53K product pages from ~11K shopping websites to characterize and quantify the prevalence of dark patterns."
- Here’s the Right Way to Rescue a Soaking Wet Smartphone. "Given the hundreds of ways your phone could come into life-threatening contact with liquid, you should know what to do when it happens (because it will)."
- RS Interview: Special Edition With Climate Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert. "The Pulitzer Prize-winning author talks with Jeff Goodell about her new book “Under a White Sky,” the trouble with climate solutions, and what it’s like watching coral sex."
- Nat Geo’s Editor-in-Chief Answers Her 7 Most-Asked Photography Questions. Find out if you have what it takes to become a National Geographic photographer.
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