S U N D R Y

How did people in ancient China keep cool during the summer heat? — quora.com

The Holocaust needed hellish logistics. IBM and its punchcard technology helped make this automated destruction of humans a reality — kottke.org

10 hours of relaxing ocean video shot by the BBC Planet Earth team. Note: they have 60 hour of other nature stuff — youtube.com

A war of fonts: how the Bauhaus school defied Nazi Germany with their minimalist font (and philosophy) — openculture.com

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Gaming, on its own, is not the problem. It's a symptom of psychological dissatisfaction — oii.ox.ac.uk

A report from the first 20-hour commercial flight from New York to Sydney — bloomberg.com

Buffet lines. They are everywhere. But are they inefficient? And can we do better than the universal one-line-everybody-behind-each-other rule? This is what Erik Bernhardsson sought to find out. And he wrote a script to simulate them. Note: lots of cool GIFs — erikbern.com

How companies are taking advantage of your happily-addicted brain: the advent of “limbic capitalism” — vox.com

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