Why Smoke Turns the Sky Orange, Advice from Abraham Lincoln, A New Rubik's Cube Record, etc.
In which I share a few links to read the next few days when you should be working.
👋 Yooooo…
🍨 Five unique ice cream recipes to “beat the heat.”
💉 We now have a vaccine for malaria. We just need to distribute it. “Malaria kills half a million people a year in Africa. We can prevent that — if we act fast enough.”
🤯 Wow. The new world record for solving a Rubik’s Cube is now just over three seconds.
👩🚀 Here is an odd one. In 1968, Howard Johnson (at the time the biggest chain in America) ran a 2001: A Space Odyssey promo for children, which included a menu/comic that didn’t adapt the movie as much as describe a family watching it in theatres.
🪐 And in Space (Fake) News, one of Saturns moon’s has been discovered to have all the ingredients for mouthwatering enchiladas, at least according to The Onion.
🌇 Relevant this past week: why smoke turns the sky orange.
🛋 Can you carry a couch in an envelope? Sure, a big one, but still an envelope.
📚 Cormac McCarthy was a giant. In honor of his passing, the New York Times created a guide of his books, as well as a list of five adaptations currently available to stream.
🇺🇸 I will leave you with some words of wisdom from Lincoln. On handling criticism: “I do the very best I know how — the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”
✌️Later, skaters. Talk to ya Sunday. Until then, remember to Keep the Hoping Machine running.
Love,
Luke
