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Wednesday 20th February, 2019 #

  • A brief history of bob haircuts in French movies (and why they do it best) - Be transported momentarily into the world surrounding the bob haircut in french film and fashion
  • Assholes
  • Under poaching pressure, elephants are evolving to lose their tusks - There is concern that this could be affecting the African ecosystem, also there is evidence this might have already happened in Asia where elephants are often tuskless
  • Why do I love React Hooks?
  • Of Mice and BEM - Getting Past Common Problems With CSS Organization
  • Karl Lagerfeld, iconic Chanel fashion designer, dies
  • Phonetically consistent English - This broke my brain, had to rewind several times, I thought the final result sounded like a cross between danish and jamaican - It would be interesting if we discovered that people learning english found it much easier to learn creole based versions of the language, perhaps there are improvements that could be made to how sounds are encoded into their written form
  • “Rebuilding a local news ecosystem” - Knight pledges $300 million to local news, free speech, and media literacy organizations