On this day, September 16
Interesting stuff that happened on this day, between 2006 and 2023.
(to know what this is, who does it and why, read the last paragraph)
2006
2010
- E-voting system failures lead to call for public clearinghouse - FCW
- How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck
- Learning the Queen’s English … on your mobile phone?
2011
2013
2014
- Are we on the path of ‘Limits to Growth’?
- Finding my way around comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
- Mega-sized sporting events too often fail to deliver health legacy
- Now You Can Truly Appreciate the Size of Comet Churymov-Gerasimenko
2016
2018
- Air pollution particles found in mothers' placentas
- Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?
- Hillary Clinton: American Democracy Is in Crisis
- Plastic Pollution: The Age of Unsolvable Problems
- Plastic waste destroying oceans could be used to fuel cars
- Spotify can tell if you’re sad. Here’s why that should scare you
- Ten myths leading us all to Brexit talks disaster
- The cure lies within us, if we have the will and the imagination to develop it
2019
2020
- ==> Bicycle delivery, or SLOW delivery?
- Two thirds of young Americans don’t know six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, survey finds
- collapse will happen for psychological reasons
2021
2023
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.
- 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:
Who writes this, why, and how to help
I am Marco Fioretti, tech writer and aspiring polymath doing human-digital research and popularization.
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