Botany

• How Venus flytraps know how to close shut.

Climatology

• The last 30 years have been hot.

Writing

• Scattertext is a new way of visualizing text.

Geology

• Pink sand exists.

Zoology

• A lizard exists that can hold its breath for up to 30 minutes.

Physics

• A fifth force of nature may have been discovered.

Zoology

• Various things about otters.

Architecture

• The lights atop Capitol Records blink "Hollywood" in Morse Code.

Cognition

• Brain training apps don't improve the brain.

Writing / Words

• Chouse means to cheat or trick.

Zoology

• Cats like virtual boxes.
• Bees are clever.

Astronomy

• 3600 year old symbol flies to the ISS.
• British spacesuit design looks/looked like armor the knights wore.

Optics

• You can use gelatin to perform optics experiments.

Music

• The oldest notated song.

Math

• A cool description of dividing.

Zoology

• Giant purple-blue squirrels exist.

Writing / Words

• Heliacal

Medicine

• Why MRIs aren't done during pregnancy.

Zoology

• Golden Tortoise Beetles exist.

Astronomy

• We're in an eclipse season.

Geology

• Someone finds a rock that looks like Cookie Monster.

Landscape

• Horsetail Fall in Yosemite looks like it's on fire.

Tactics

• Tusken Raiders Ride Single File
• Cats Walk Single File

Zoology

• A plant I know about lost most of its genome, which I didn't know.

Writing

• The difference between "soon" and "early".

Physics

• Warp drives come a step closer to reality.

Geology

• Some rocks change color in light.
• There is a form of quartz that looks like raw steak.

Optics

• Tenebrescent materials change color in light.

Zoology

• An alien-looking caterpillar exists.

Astronomy

• Cool images of Jupiter released.

Zoology / Genetics

• The US has released genetically engineered mosquitos.
• Baby octopi can change color as soon as they are born.

Mycology

• Bioluminescent fungi exist.

NASA

• I learned why Cape Canaveral was originally chosen as the launch site.

Zoology

• Piglet squids exist.

Writing

• @DebbiMack posted a link to the Star Wars screenplay. (She also has a great blog.)

Programming: iOS Accelerator - Paul Hudson

• Keep test data in the struct you are testing.
• I should be using SDWebImageSwiftUI
• I should be using Paul's BundleDecoder extension.
• lot's of small hints and techniques.

Zoology

• Animals are amazing.
• Animals are amazing.
• Tree kangaroos exist.
• Sea otters hold hands when they sleep.

Astronomy

Mother's Day

Biology

Politics

• Canada and Denmark fighting over an island.

Programming / Swift

• I figured out how to eliminate "switch" and "if/else" statements.

Astronomy

• I learned NASA released audio from Mars.

Biology

• Bees are amazing.

From the Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise 2021 Conference

• Key concepts of systems thinking - Kent Beck, Jessica Kerr
• Some interesting approaches to refactoring code.
• Kairos time

Biology

• A pink fairy armadillo exists.

Games / Programming

• Nintendo is releasing a game to teach programming for the Switch

From the Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise 2021 Conference

• Excellent talk about "calm" technologies by Amber Case. - Technology today is like an infant constantly begging for your attention and asking to be fed.
• A ton of stuff about Java from Brian Goetz.
• QA for AI
• How enormous John Deere's sensor network is.

From the Emerging Technologies For the Enterprise 2021 Conference

• Client-first programming and Automerge. - I want to try this.
• Using Interfaces in GO.
• SPACE - metrics and approaches to business productivity.

• Physics / BIology

• Pelicans use something known as wave-surf sloping to stay aloft over waves.
• Sea slugs can grow an entire new body if decapitated.

Physics

• The nucleus of an atom has a skin of neutrons

Architecture

• London is building a "floating" pool.

Astronomy / Physics

• Jumping on different planets.

Writing

• I learned the meaning of "fustian".

Biology

• Baby swordfish have swords.

Biology

• Archaelogists find a new form of life in a fossil.
• Brain size and intelligence aren't related the way most people think they are.

Baking

• Rolls have different names.