The case for Emilia Bassano as Shakespeare

The case for Emilia Bassano as Shakespeare

Who was this woman writing “immortal work” in the same year that Shakespeare’s name first appeared in print? So did Virginia Woolf, even as she sighed over the obstacles that would have confronted a female Shakespeare: “Undoubtedly, I thought, looking at the shelf where there are no plays by women, her work would have gone unsigned.” Who was this woman writing “immortal work” in the same year that Shakespeare’s name first appeared in print, on the poem “Venus and Adonis,” a scandalous parody of masculine seduction tales (in which the woman forces herself on the man)?

Source: www.theatlantic.com

Beyond Quantum Mechanics [video]

Beyond Quantum Mechanics

Quantum theory claims that reality is fundamentally uncertain and unknowable- but have we given in too easily? Nobel Prize-winner Gerard ‘t Hooft claims the strangeness we now believe in hides a simpler underlying reality. He is winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the quantum structure

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ZeroCater (YC W11) Is Hiring a Principal Engineer in SF: Must Love Food

ZeroCater (YC W11) Is Hiring a Principal Engineer in SF: Must Love Food

ZeroCater has successfully launched our core product, Managed Catering, into 6 markets and are excited to offer Snacks + Beverages to clients in San Francisco. With our $12M in Series B funding, we plan to expand Snacks and Catering nationally to new enterprise and Fortune 500 clients. ZeroCater is changing a $130 billion industry and continues to sustain year over year growth.

Source: zerocater.com

The boring front-end developer

The boring front-end developer

Here’s an ode to the boring front-end developer, BFED if you will. The BFED embraces the constraints and limitations of the browser so that he/she doesn’t find him/herself in a world of Adaptive Design and UA sniffing because that world is horrible, ill-advised and costly. The BFED will also suggest the use of native form controls realising that browsers will enhance the experience where possible, particularly on mobile, and doesn’t try to control the look and feel too much as he/she knows that the brand will not suffer because of that decision.

Source: adamsilver.io

List of Free Science Books

List of Free Science Books

Note that many of the links will bring you to an external page, usually with more info about the book and the download links. Broken links are constantly being fixed. In case you want to report a broken link, or a link that violates copyrights, use the contact form.

Source: physicsdatabase.com

Third-Biggest U.S. Coal Company Files for Bankruptcy

Third-Biggest U.S. Coal Company Files for Bankruptcy

Gillette-based Cloud Peak Energy filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. Cloud Peak owns and operates three mines in the Powder River Basin: the Antelope and Cordero Rojo mines in Wyoming and the Spring Creek Mine in Montana. Cloud Peak officials say the mines will remain in operation during the bankruptcy process.

Source: flatheadbeacon.com

Was Shakespeare a Woman? The case for Emilia Bassano

Was Shakespeare a Woman? The case for Emilia Bassano

Who was this woman writing “immortal work” in the same year that Shakespeare’s name first appeared in print? So did Virginia Woolf, even as she sighed over the obstacles that would have confronted a female Shakespeare: “Undoubtedly, I thought, looking at the shelf where there are no plays by women, her work would have gone unsigned.” Who was this woman writing “immortal work” in the same year that Shakespeare’s name first appeared in print, on the poem “Venus and Adonis,” a scandalous parody of masculine seduction tales (in which the woman forces herself on the man)?

Source: www.theatlantic.com

Evidence that pop music is getting sadder and angrier

Evidence that pop music is getting sadder and angrier

To give some examples of this phenomenon, Shamir pointed to a string of hits in the 1950s with the dominant feelings of ‘joy’ – songs like Elvis Presley’s All Shook Up, which scored 0.702 for that emotion, or Little Richard’s Long Tall Sally, which scored 0.82. Batt agrees that a more negative tone in today’s pop music also might reflect social changes, though – and even if the reactions to political events are not overtly expressed as protest songs, they may still influence the overall mood. The composer tunes into the zeitgeist, and the resulting sadness or anger is, in turn, more appealing to us as consumers, who recognise our own feelings within the music and lyrics and propel those songs to the top of the charts.

Source: www.bbc.com

Show HN: Eigengrau’s Generator – A procedural city generator for tabletop gaming

Show HN: Eigengrau’s Generator – A procedural city generator for tabletop gaming

Eigengrau’s Essential Establishment Generator, or EEEG for short, is a tabletop procedural generation tool for towns, npcs, and more. You can also find easy work to do on the generator here. To learn how to compile a local version of the generator for testing go here.

Source: github.com