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The findings this week: Woodrow Wilson was weak on sharks How to paint lots of darkness tags as elements Hot water gaskets Mouse handedness Lap desks Making good pizza dough and cooking pizza sausage The coronavirus stimulus package. Here's the executive raise limit formula for companies that take stimulus assistance: (current pay - $3 million)/2 + $3 million. (The / means "divided by&quo...

The findings this week: The CARES act signing statement Trump's signing statement Undoing paint Zoom Audm Wistia The coronavirus impact on the ad industry NYT: The impact of the coronavirus on advertising Black beans and black coffee Bread and grape resurrections Bon Appetit: How to revive stale bread MRRP! Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at smallfindings@fastmail.com!

The findings this week: The basics of China's economic model A spectre is haunting the West — the spectre of authoritarian capitalism Harvard's endowment Harvard announces salary and hiring freezes What's involved in an ICU How to set up an ICU Conspiracy theories Conspiracy and Democracy John Naughton's quarantine diary Jair Bolsonaro claims NGOs behind Amazon forest fire surge –...

The findings this week: The hardest part of making pizza The other episode with a segment on pizza Why stock buybacks matter Wikipedia These Companies Enriched Themselves. Now They’re Getting a Bailout. Amazon and labor Amazon is reportedly using a heat map to track stores at risk of unionization Amazon executives privately insulted a warehouse worker, then attacked him on Twitter Amazon warehouse...

The findings this week: How to paint black without actually using black, from Sam Sam's site The Witch of Endor Wikipedia The Visitation, a podcast about the Plague in London Purcell: Funeral Sentences for the Death of Queen Mary II Z27 : I March Purcell: Saul and the Witch of Endor, Z. 134: "In guilty night" Surprising businesses I stumbled upon in Cambridge Adaptive Surface Technol...

The findings this week: Parchment paper and pizza Wikipedia on parchment paper Can You Heat Parchment Paper Higher Than Manufacturers Recommend? How restaurants are affected by the practices of delivery companies Universal Hub on the Boston City Council hearing about delivery companies The Daily: Reopening, Warily Wikipedia on Foodler GrubHub pricing overview (PDF) Uber Eats pricing The Postmates...

The findings this week: Text findings Miscellaneous Findings I (mostly about businesses) Miscellaneous Findings II (video editing commands) Regular and gravitational lensing Wikipedia lens article Wikipedia optical telescope article The Bold Plan to See Continents and Oceans on Another Earth Wikipedia gravitational lens article The anachronism and lightness in the beginning of the Lord of the Ring...

The findings this week: Polio Wikipedia on Polio The 1956 Polio Epidemic Fooling the coronavirus proofreading machinery White people closing ranks around atrocities, then and now The Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery Emmett Till on Wikipedia Hundreds of armed counter-protesters confront Black Lives Matter rally in Ohio White Defendant Allegedly Used Racial Slur After Killing Ahmaud Arbery Where Ahmaud Arb...

The findings this week: Expedition with Alex: The bridge over Route 2 and the top of Alewife Station The Lightning Field An account of visiting the Lightning Field in the New Yorker Wikipedia: Alewife Station Map between Alewife Station and Encore Boston Harbor The "Marketplace of Ideas" veneer in effect in 1933 Out from under their rock: Nazis fly their flag outside the State House Driv...

The findings this week: Surnameless cultures The Hidden History of Burma Wikipedia on Mononyms Javanese names The gömböc Wikipedia on the gömböc Lenin's style and stance on state capitalism V.I. Lenin's “Left-Wing” Childishness Jeffrey Toobin's True Crimes and Misdemeanors review Episode 3, with a segment about China's state capitalism Lenin's Wikipedia article Email me any fin...

The findings this week: A book podcast I'm doing with some friends Rehydrate Autocorrelation Companion blog post that uses numbers in the explanation Why You Hear What You Hear LLCs and legal insurance Does Forming an LLC or Corporation Fully Protect You From Liability? Massachusetts law about homestead Expedition with Alex 2: Crossing the bridge over Route 2 Email me any findings you want to...

The findings this week: Text findings Miscellaneous Findings IV (web odd and ends) Miscellaneous Findings V (the doings of servers) How to make your own pasta and what it's like The Play-Doh Fun Factory (which I misrembered; it looks nothing like a pasta machine!) A picture of a real pasta machine Snuff The Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe My post on the first book in the series that the Arrow of...

The findings this week: Getting paid for art, submitting the work of bots to calls for art Allison Tanenhaus, glitch artist Codaworx (art broker) RAL Companies and Affiliates LLC's Fairmont Ave condo Hills bot Code to make Hills bot create a specific set of hills Slop Cube (the bot whose work was turned down) My other bots How to repeat random decisions SVG How NOT to replace Roomba tires The...

The findings this week: Beverly Cleary in the 1930s My Own Two Feet (autobiography) Sun Ra in Alabama and Chicago Space Is The Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra by John F. Szwed How to evaluate air purifiers with Fred Clean air delivery rate Footnote 1 from Fred: "Regarding air filtration in commercial spaces, what I said was generally true for offices, commercial spaces, chemical labs, an...

The findings this week: Defeating bike locks Your U-Lock Is Basically Worthless A Kryptonite lock being cut with a bolt cutter Someone car jacking open a Kryptonite lock Kryptonite Anti-Theft Protection Offer matrix Defeating laser printer DRM Consumer Reports on inkjet ink's per gallon cost How to move an HP laser printer cartridge chip Sherlock Holmes and six-year-olds Wikipedia All Men Are...

The findings this week: Similarities between recording a computer playing music and recording a human playing music More from Beverly Cleary's autobiography My Own Two Feet My Own Two Feet (autobiography) Smudge pots Telegram service level in the 1930s Engineer stereotypes in the '30s A sandwich spread recipe (the deluxe kind, with bologna) Boarding houses Library schools and attitude grad...

The findings this week: What decibels actually are Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance Open Broadcaster System on the 0 dB digital audio convention Arneson and Gygax from Playing at the World Playing at the World by Jon Peterson Jon Peterson's blog Hobby Games: The 100 Best Trusting cats' confidence Image of a leopard sleeping in a tree by Michael Schamis via Wikimedia...

The findings this week: The Westminster Quarters Wikipedia on the Westminster Quarters Joseph Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum Mars, Bringer of War The perception of stereo delay effects on voice and instruments Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at smallfindings@fastmail.com!

The findings this week: Catbirds Wikipedia Episode image from PxHere Posting to Bandcamp Bandcamp artist guide The Sound of the Far Future on Bandcamp Correction: Some people can hear delay on the vibraphone! Episode 18, about delay on vibraphone and voices Grasshopper group sounds Bitcoin's unsuitability as a currency Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility Bretton Woods Cryptocurrenices use a lot...

The findings this week: Watertown's true name and the forms of municipal government in Massachusetts Article LXXXIX of the Articles of Amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, about town and city forms of government City or Town of Watertown – Charter Review Committee Weighs in on That & Other Proposed Changes How speakers make vibrations Poirot and his similarit...

The findings this week: Glaciers and the Milankovic Cycles Moving to Higher Ground by John Englander NASA: Milankovic Cycles NASA: Why Milankovic Cycles Can't Explain Earth's Current Warming Teaching is hard Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder The Student Who Got Away Correction: Nassim Nicholas Taleb is actually incoherent Episode 20, about how I tho...

The findings this week: The Great Emu War Wikipedia Rogue Audio signal modulation My blog post about this Talk box The Recurse Center Don't Panic, Colby's podcast Vomit, the band from Norway The Vomit demo compilation Their Metallum entry Kittil Kittilson's entry Entombed's classic Left Hand Path Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at smallfindings@fastmail.com!

The findings this week: Steve Jobs getting away with stuff, but in the '70s A History of Video Games in 64 Objects The indie dev tale of NanoStudio NanoStudio 2 Blip Interactive forum thread about Studio Drums Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at smallfindings@fastmail.com!

The findings this week: Guerilla art getting established Futility Closet on Charging Bull Wikipedia on Arturo Di Modica Wikipedia on Fearless Girl Hell Bent for Leather Hell Bent for Leather lyrics The Word Detective on the phrase Halford photo by André Banyai Between repetition and timbre Bassoon sample from Carlos Vaquero Chapter 2 of The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music Email me any fin...

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