Interesting stuff that happened on this day, between 2009 and 2023.

(to know what this is, who does it and why, read the last paragraph)

2009

• The Photographer’s Right
• Two words make Joe Wilson an Internet sensation

2011

• ==> What is resilience and why it is good for you today

2012

• The New Life of the Comic Book
• Where The Bailouts Stand, In 1 Graphic

2014

• Climate scientist drops the F-bomb after startling Arctic discovery

2015

• How 3D objects and pictures of heritage can connect children worldwide
• How Carl Friedrich Gauss Taught Us the Best Way to Hold a Pizza Slice
• Life After Content Blocking
• ==> Pesaro, Microsoft and OpenOffice: the consequences
• Trump Is Right on Economics
• Who Will Own the Robots?

2018

• Can inequality only be fixed by war, revolution or plague?
• Decentralized Microgridding Can Provide 90% of a Neighborhood’s Energy Needs
• Facial Recognition Tech Is Ready for Its Post-Phone Future
• Highlighting the Global Contributions of Women in STEM on Wikipedia
• How WhatsApp Destroyed A Village
• How to Downsize a Transport Network: The Chinese Wheelbarrow
• Let’s Teach American Exceptionalism for What It Is
• Nike’s Bad Air
• Survey finds 85% of underserved students have access to only one digital device
• The Age of the Imbecile
• The copyright reform bug that risks derailing Europe’s AI ambitions
• There’s An Urgent Need To Fix India’s Declining Air Quality
• Trump Administration Wants to Make It Easier to Release Methane Into Air
• Update: The Evergreen State College
• Water footprint of different diets within European sub-national geographical entities
• When ‘Release Early, Release Often’ Is a Problem

2019

• ==> Amazon-for-bulk-commodity is coming
• Libraries and Archivists Are Scanning and Uploading Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain
• The Trolley Problem: A Thought Experiment That Tests Our Morality
• What College Admissions Offices Really Want

2020

• ==> Automatic Wildness Creators?
• Degrowth and MMT: A thought experiment
• Dozens of Amazon’s own products have been reported as dangerous – melting, exploding or even bursting into flames. Many are still on the market - CNN
• Leo Strauss and the Crisis of Modernity (II): the Necessity of Virtue
• The Trouble with Disparity

2021

• 10 Human Rights Impacts of Land Governance Digitalization
• ==> Graphene is the new plastic

2023

• Electric cars have a road trip problem, even for the secretary of energy
• Why Is Music Getting Sadder?
• Why go to college when you could be a plumber?
• Will Nations Fund Fertility?

What’s this, and who does it?

I am Marco, tech writer and aspiring polymath, researcher and popularizer of “Digital-Human Studies in many ways, including my newsletter.

Over the years, I have bookmarked thousands of articles and news of all sorts related to those studies, or to my personal interests. This post is a selection of the bookmarks that were published on this day, in several years (1).

I share them as a public service, because memory of what happened and serendipity MATTER. A lot. We are all too distracted and stressed by stuff that has no other merit than being “new”, or limited to our work, instead of being important (if you find broken links, please let me know).

You may follow this Almanac and my work via Mastodon, BlueSky, LinkedIn or X/Twitter, not to mention RSS, which remains the most efficient, less distracting, more private and more future-proof way to follow news online. If you don’t know why, read here. Last but not least, thanks for supporting my work in any way you can.

1. This is in the spirit of the “Almanac of the next day”, an italian TV program aired from 1974 to 1994 that presented the most important historical facts happened on each day. This is a snapshot of its opening titles: