Mon. 03/29 - Why The Lawyer Cat Filter Was a Default on Thousands of Computers
A new fossil analysis that bolsters the theory that primates may have lived alongside dinosaurs––and somehow survived extinction. The high school girl who invented color-changing sutures that show when a wound has become infected. And why the filter made famous from the viral Lawyer Cat video was installed as a default setting on thousands of Dell computers.
A new fossil analysis that bolsters the theory that primates may have lived alongside dinosaurs––and somehow survived extinction. The high school girl who invented color-changing sutures that show when a wound has become infected. And why the filter made famous from the viral Lawyer Cat video was installed as a default setting on thousands of Dell computers.
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Links:
- Did ancient primates walk alongside T. rex? New evidence backs up theory. (National Geographic)
- Our earliest primate ancestors rapidly spread after dinosaur extinction (Berkeley News)
- This High Schooler Invented Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection (Smithsonian Magazine)
- That Zoom Call with the Lawyer-Cat, Explained (The New Yorker)
- Zoom Cat Lawyer Rod Ponton Has Controversial Prosecutor Past (Insider)
- Forever Given
- NUMTOT Tinder Is a Dating Site for Transit Nerds (The Atlantic)
- Kottke.Org
- Jackson Bird on Twitter
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