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Must Farm: "A half-eaten bowl of porridge complete with wooden spoon, communal rubbish bins, and a decorative necklace made with amber and glass beads are just a handful of the extraordinarily well-preserved remnants of a late Bronze Age hamlet unearthed in eastern England that’s been dubbed “Britain’s Pompeii” and a “time capsule” into village life almost 3,000 years ago."

"We’ve focused on three major categories of health harms from exposure to these chemicals: cancer, developmental harm and asthma.
Using emissions data for 23 of EPA’s high priority toxic chemicals, this map visualizes how communities are cumulatively exposed to multiple toxic chemicals that cause the same harms, leading to serious health issues. Use this tool to see where facilities are polluting these toxic chemicals into our air, water and land and how it’s putting our health at risk, then click through to encourage EPA to take action."

"Like many of you, I was disappointed when I learned that Redis®1 was changing to a non-free licensing model. This is a betrayal of the free software community, but perhaps not an entirely surprising one. Forks are likely to start appearing in the coming days, and today, I would like to offer Redict to you as a possible future home for your needs, and present its trade-offs as compared to the other forks you’re likely to be choosing from soon."

"How to build notifications that do not ruin the experience for your users: when and how to ask for permissions: 3 rules for good notifications and how let user control what they need."

Most of these were *way* too optimistic.

"For millions of years, we’ve evolved to live in community. Our brains, which are hugely expensive to maintain, got bigger and bigger, primarily to support our ability to engage with others..."

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