Last week's Covid ping turned out to be a damp squib as usual, so I'm not having to unplug a ventilator to get enough battery life to post this lot after all 
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- The Girl in the Picture - ”For most residents of Holland, Michigan, there was nothing remarkable about March 11, 1989, a Saturday… But all was not well in the house on the corner of Lincoln Road and 52nd Street. It belonged to Dennis and Brenda Bowman, a married couple with two children. For the Bowmans, March 11 marked the last time they saw their 14-year-old daughter, Aundria, alive.” The long search for a missing teenager.
- Remains of 9,000-Year-Old Beer Found in China - ”Archaeologists in southeastern China have discovered the residue of beer drunk 9,000 years ago. The vessels containing the ancient dregs were located near two human skeletons, suggesting that mourners may have consumed the brew in honor of the dead.”
- The Complex Truth About ‘Junk DNA’ - ”Genomes hold immense quantities of noncoding DNA. Some of it is essential for life, some seems useless, and some has its own agenda.” Yet another thing that's more complicated than you thought.
- Mars Now - ”This visualization shows the current location and communication activity of all operating landers, rovers and orbiters at Mars that transmit data to Earth via NASA’s Mars Relay Network.” Cool new thing from NASA
- Coast to Coast: Norfolk to Wales - ”It was to be my best and most unique adventure yet, the summer weather would be perfect. To mark six decades on this planet I would walk from my home near Sheringham to my parents’ home at Bangor, North Wales, arriving on the morning of my 60th birthday to a hero’s welcome in the bosom of my family.” An epic journey
- Route Setters of the Tokyo Olympics: The silent architects in a game of choreographed skill and chance - The people who design and build the climbing walls for the Olympics: ”Unlike most sports in the Olympics, the field of play in competition climbing constantly changes… The boulder problems and routes that athletes spend their lives preparing for are imagined, created and manipulated by a peculiar group of introverted movement engineers—the ragtag remnants of society’s outliers—otherwise known as route setters.”
- Cinephobe - ”New York's First & Only TV Channel.” There are all kind of interesting and thoroughly obscure films and features on this free online channel. It supports Chromecast if your equipment supports that. If you're an Apple fanboi like me, I found that right-clicking on the player and selecting "Open video in new tab" gave me the icon to use AirPlay to send it from Safari to my Apple TV
- Meet the Self-Hosters, Taking Back the Internet One Server at a Time - The cloud is all well and good, but how about reviving the good old days of hosting your own server? ”Through a growing movement of dedicated hobbyists known as self-hosters, the dream of a decentralized internet lives on at a time when surveillance, censorship, and increasing scrutiny of Big Tech has created widespread mistrust in large internet platforms.”
- European Heraldry - A site by Adnan Smlatić : ”The beautiful thing about Europe is that even the tiniest of regions have rich and unique histories and consequently intriguing and interesting heraldic symbols… That is why I created this website, a simple interactive map, that includes coats of arms from European countries, divided into administrative divisions. This website includes over a 100,000 different coats from around Europe.”
- Clark Little Photography - Among other themes, Clark photographs breaking waves from the inside: ”The shorebreak is my comfort zone. I absolutely love it. It's always different. The light, the colors, the water, the sand and what happens to it. And to be there to capture it and share it with the world... what a dream.” This one is called "Blue Swan"
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