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Apr 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Study Reveals Why Property Owners Planted Vineyards and Orchards Instead of Rebuilding After the Earthquake of 62 AD in Pompeii

Pompeii did not die suddenly. Before Vesuvius buried it in AD 79, the city had already survived another catastrophe: a devastating earthquake in AD 62 that toppled buildings, cracked streets, and l...

Apr 16, 2026 from Palladium

The Peoples of America

The Human Geography of this Continent The post The Peoples of America appeared first on Palladium.

Apr 16, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Charles and Rebels and Salt

The French word gabelle derives from the Italian gabella, which means "duty." It was a tax applied to agricultural and industrial items, such as bed sheets, wheat, spices, wine...and salt.The crusa...

Apr 16, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

“A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884)

An early contribution to drug literature, in which a man came to be fashioned out of wood.

Apr 16, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

AI Today, Calculators Back in the Day

An article about the dangers of AI dependency reminded me of how I encouraged a middle schooler to do algebra by hand in my senior year of high school.

Apr 16, 2026 from kmcd.dev

Unknown Fields in Protobuf

How Protobuf unknown fields enable seamless schema evolution and robust middleware.

Apr 16, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Unwritten

Don't know what to do? Do nothing until you figure it out. Man, I sure love sitting around, doing nothing. It's awesome, perhaps the best use of my time. I think people give things like flow states...

Apr 15, 2026 from Improve Something Today

Timely plugs: Mandy Brown’s workshop, Abby Covert’s next sensemaking book, & new music

Three things to consider this week.

Apr 15, 2026 from Above the Law

Talk About Failing Upward — See Also

Ted Cruz, Supreme Court Justice?: One hell of a promotion for being annoying to work with! How Much Is Your Loyalty To Your Firm Worth?: Probably less than $80M! The Rich Really Do Get Richer: The ...

Apr 15, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Türkiye and Azerbaijan Contend With Potential Kurdish Role in Iran Conflict

Fuad Shahbazov

Apr 15, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

The Wine Does Not Need To Chill, The Customer On The Other Hand…

Read The Wine Does Not Need To Chill, The Customer On The Other Hand… Customer: "Where is the bucket with ice that always comes with it?" Me: "You mean the cooler? We only give that with white/rose...

Apr 15, 2026 from Hackaday

Python Comes to the Arduino Uno Q

MicroPython is a well-known and easy-to-use way to program microcontrollers in Python. If you’re using an Arduino Uno Q, though, you’re stuck without it. [Natasha] saves the day by bringing …read more

Apr 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Unique Individual Scoring Games in NBA History

I recently published a new NBA research project inspired by Bam Adebayo’s 83-point eruption on March 10, 2026. Noting that Bam Adebayo is a modest scorer in the pantheon of NBA players who scored 6...

Apr 15, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Say hello to ProtonVPN, AlternativeTo’s first Official Partner!

We’re thrilled to announce that ProtonVPN is officially becoming the first Official Partner of AlternativeTo 🎉 That means the awesome team at Proton is supporting our community driven platform and ...

Apr 15, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit

“An independent privacy audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic in California found that the companies may be violating state regulations and racking up billions in fines. According to the...

Apr 15, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Depends on What the Meaning of "Miss" Is: The Miss America Gender Identity Controversy

To advance in competition, Miss North Florida 2025, Kayleigh Bush, was told to sign a contract that forced her to… The post Depends on What the Meaning of "Miss" Is: The Miss America Gender Identit...

Apr 15, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Pfandautomaten

Welcher Idiot is auf die Idee gekommen, die Pfandautomaten _außerhalb_ des Supermarktes aufzustellen?

Apr 15, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 15 April 2026

Busy People Edition Top Story China's leading flash memory producer, YTMC, is constructing two new factories in addition to the one already in progress. (Tom's Hardware) Each factory will produce 1...

Apr 15, 2026 from Peter's Path

Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote Perelandra. It is the second book in his Space Trilogy. Dr Elwin Ransom travels to Perelandra, the name for Venus. He finds a perfect, unfallen world of floating...

Apr 15, 2026 from ℤ→ℤ

Plain Text Accounting & Financial Reporting

Over the past year, I’ve been acting as the treasurer for a small publishing company. I converted our books from a collection of spreadsheets to a plain text accounting ledger and wrote programs to...