Marketing and the Origins of Food Names
Where do common food names come from, and how does changing the name of a food reflect marketing and sales?
Summer Break 2024
We’re taking the rest of the week off, and today I leave you with an obscure musical delight from the late 1900s.
Forget about AI, Here Comes PowerPoint
Did you know that PowerPoint is the only computing application you need to do, well, anything?
Digital Archiving, and What Would it Cost to Print an Always Up-to-date Version of Wikipedia
Is the easiest way to preserve digital materials printing them out? What if we’re talking about the constantly changing Wikipedia?
Design Matters: What Should the Future of Transportation Sound Like?
Designers have spent decades trying to reduce the sounds that cars make. Now with electric vehicles, they are being forced to add sounds to provide feedback to drivers and pedestrians. What should the future sound like?
Out of Office: Summer Vacation
We’re out of office until next week. But is anyone really out of office these days?
The World of Competitive Excel eSports
Think you’re pretty handy with Excel? Wait until you see the world of professional spreadsheet competitors.
The Genetic Drift of Baby Names
Why do some names fall out of fashion, and how is the study of names like the study of genetics?
How Do Dogs See the World?
What does the research tell us about how dogs see the world?
Why Are English Language Spellings So Weird?
Why are English spellings so inconsistent and weird?
Off for Memorial Day, Let Barbecue Season Begin!
We’re off for the Memorial Day weekend, some music to get your summer barbecue started.
A Cetacean Alphabet
A new paper uses AI to decipher sperm whale vocalizations.
Music Paralysis as We Age
When do we stop making the effort to find new music?
Jane Austen’s Free Indirect Speech
A short explanation of one way that Jane Austen changed literature.
Reading with Run DMC
On today’s episode, Run DMC pay a visit to Reading Rainbow.