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The apparitionists: a tale of phantoms, fraud, photography, and the man who captured Lincoln's ghost / Peter Manseau
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Look both ways: a double journey along my grandmother's far-flung path / Katharine Coles
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Dreyer's English: an utterly correct guide to clarity and style / Benjamin Dreyer
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Maid: hard work, low pay, and a mother's will to survive / Stephanie Land ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich
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We are the nerds: the birth and tumultuous life of Reddit, the internet's culture laboratory / Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
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Lamarck's revenge: how epigenetics is revolutionizing our understanding of evolution's past and present / Peter Ward
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Dying of whiteness: how the politics of racial resentment is killing America's heartland / Jonathan M. Metzl
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The desert and its seed / Jorge Barón Biza ; translated from the Spanish by Camilo Ramirez ; afterword by Nora Avaro
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The devil's dinner: a gastronomic and cultural history of chili peppers / Stuart Walton
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Seeing race again: countering colorblindness across the disciplines / edited by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz
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From the earth: world's great, rare and almost forgotten vegetables / Peter Gilmore ; photography by Brett Stevens
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Christopher Kimball's Milk Street: Tuesday nights / Christopher Kimball, J.M. Hirsch, Matthew Card, Michelle Locke, Jennifer Baldino Cox, and the editors and cooks of Milk Street ; photography by Connie Miller
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Black is the body: stories from my grandmother's time, my mother's time, and mine / Emily Bernard
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Nobody's girl Friday: the women who ran Hollywood / J.E. Smyth
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Lifespan: why we age--and why we don't have to / David A. Sinclair, with Matthew D. LaPlante ; illustrations by Catherine L. Delphia
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Chicana movidas: new narratives of activism and feminism in the movement era / edited by Dionne Espinoza, María Eugenia Cotera, Maylei Blackwell
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Basque country: a culinary journey through a food lover's paradise / Marti Buckley ; photographs by Simon Bajada
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The dog: a natural history / Ádám Miklósi with Tamás Faragó [and five others]
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How to smash garlic & the patriarchy: a modern womxn's field guide
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Hanging out, messing around, and geeking out: kids living and learning with new media / Mizuko Ito, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martín
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One life at a time: an American doctor's memoir of AIDS in Botswana / Daniel Baxter
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Linkbait 43
Back from hiatus. I’m starting up serious planning and writing of “CSS for JavaScripters” so this is a CSS-heavy linkbait, mostly filled with reminders to myself.
- Every-layout.dev is easily the most important CSS resource to be unveiled in recent months. (In fact, it was unveiled at CSS Day, which was a nice touch.) Serious, in-depth, algorithmic discussion of several popular CSS layouts and how to construct them with care.
- The 2019 State of CSS survey results. Contains several interesting gems. The figure that really surprised me is that 85% of the respondents is male. I thought CSS had a slightly higher ratio of women. Then again, maybe it’s the marketing of the survey that caused the disparity. (I never heard of it until I saw the results.) Or my gender guesstimate is just wrong.
- The CSS mindset:
Interesting turn of phrase that echoes my own thoughts on the subject. Expect to find this in The Book.[...] the declarative nature of CSS makes it particularly difficult to grasp, especially if you think about it in terms of a “traditional” programming language.
Other programming languages often work in controlled environments, like servers. They expect certain conditions to be true at all times [...]
CSS on the other hand works in a place that can never be fully controlled, so it has to be flexible by default. It’s less about “programming the appearance” and more about translating a design into a set of rules that communicate the intent behind it. Leave enough room, and the browser will do the heavy lifting for you.
- Excellent overview of render blocking in CSS and how to avoid it. It’s simple, really, but there will be countless CSS programmers who need this sort of tutorials. Will also go in The Book.
- An older article, but Harry Roberts’s Cyclomatic Complexity: Logic in CSS remains one cornerstone of CSS understanding, and teaching. This one is mostly meant to remind myself of its existence; you probably already read it.
- Facebook lost 20% of its usage (likes, shares, and such) since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke.
This sounds great in theory, but what if the people who are harder to dupe are the ones who stop using Facebook, while the more gullible people remain? The average Facebook user would become more stupid, and Facebook would become even better at influencing its users. - Also, Facebook should be regulated. Not as a media company, but as a drug.
- We all know third-party scripts are among the worst offenders when it comes to website performance. But how bad is it actually, and who are the worst culprits? Third-party Web provides useful answers and treeviews.
- Excellent overview of WebViews, their purpose, their tricky bits, and their diversity. Required reading for all five people who care about the browser market.
- [In Dutch] List of websites closed on Sundays. In an ultimate meta-move this list is only available on Sundays.
(And why are these websites closed? Because their proprietors subscribe to the strict Dutch Reformed view that Sundays are not for media enjoyment. See this article about the SGP political party for more background information.) - You shouldn’t do thing with tool, you should do other thing
- Have a tip for the next Linkbait? Or a comment on this one? Let me know (or here or here).
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Around 30 Indian institutions are working to develop a nCoV-19 vaccine
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An introduction to the topological derivative method Antonio André Novotny, Jan Sokołowski
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Mathematical topics on representations of ordered structures and utility theory: essays in honor of Professor Ghanshyam B. Mehta / Gianni Bosi, María J. Campión, Juan C. Candeal, Esteban Indurain, editors
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Selected exercises in algebra. Rocco Chirvì, Ilaria Del Corso, Roberto Dvornicich
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A comprehensive introduction to sub-Riemannian geometry: from the Hamiltonian viewpoint / Andrei Agrachev (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Trieste), Davide Barilari (Université Paris Diderot, Paris), Ugo Boscain (Centre Nat
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Mathematical modelling, optimization, analytic and numerical solutions Pammy Manchanda, René Pierre Lozi, Abul Hasan Siddiqi, editors
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The 3-D global spatial data model: principles and applications / Earl F. Burkholder
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Building Bridges II: mathematics of László Lovász / Imre Bárány, Gyula O.H. Katona, Attila Sali, editors
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Continuous semigroups of holomorphic self-maps of the unit disc Filippo Bracci, Manuel D. Contreras, Santiago Díaz-Madrigal
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The unravelers: mathematical snapshots / edited by JeanFrançois Dars, Annick Lesne, Anne Papillault ; translated by Vivienne Méla
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Game theory: an applied introduction / José Luis Ferreira
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Modulation spaces: with applications to pseudodifferential operators and nonlinear Schrödinger equations / Árpád Bényi, Kasso A. Okoudjou
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Jordan triple systems in complex and functional analysis / José M. Isidro
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A first journey through logic / Martin Hils, François Loeser
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Rahul Gandhi speaks to Raghuram Rajan on Covid-19's economic impact
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Best of BS Opinion: Lockdown continues, India's economic growth, and more
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Mystery continues around Prashant Kishor's travel to Kolkata amid lockdown
Supposedly, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee asked him to come to Kolkata for a discussion
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Best of BS Opinion: Covid-19 outbreak, India's MF industry, and more
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