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recent bookmarks from andrewduckerThe seven programming ur-languages2026-04-19T21:05:48+00:00
https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html
andrewduckerlanguage programming historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:4b95c983f440/Uruguay has the only stable, successful South American economy. Why is that?2026-04-18T17:19:05+00:00
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qDVPFAuBSXw
andrewduckerhistory economics SouthAmerica videohttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:76eb68d35219/The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki2026-04-08T09:12:34+00:00
https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-image-boards-of-hayao-miyazaki
andrewduckerghibli art historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:13344324b9b3/The change that made lighthouses work much better - and why it drove the keepers mad. (Lots and lots of mercury)2026-03-20T09:59:51+00:00
https://www.tumblr.com/andrewducker/811595890987089920?source=share
andrewduckermercury light history safety shipshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:2f625d8180f8/How *did* a multi-storey car park get built in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle?2026-03-19T17:05:20+00:00
https://threadinburgh.scot/2026/03/19/a-multi-storey-problem-story-the-thread-about-the-castle-terrace-car-park/
andrewduckeredinburgh cars historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:27ced04806bb/Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year (I've been using it for over 35 years and had no idea)2026-03-16T10:24:31+00:00
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/microsoft-365-apps/excel/wrongly-assumes-1900-is-leap-year
andrewduckerexcel date history computershttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:045587f339a7/Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection2026-03-13T07:54:16+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7kwq1k11o?app-referrer=deep-link&fbclid=Iwb21leAQgmXFjbGNrBCCZPmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHuZe7MKe-9PZnzPH1lgmyNOd1Qs-8cgJEvpLUqBBS0yD_QDKLoXyrAIv_Up3_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw
andrewduckerdrwho historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9b6f7b83123e/This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t (check the date)2026-03-03T21:50:58+00:00
https://theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mideast-region-and-1819594296/
andrewduckerpolitics USA middle_east historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f7383887c113/How far back in time can you understand English?2026-02-22T12:54:51+00:00
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
andrewduckerlanguage English historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:53f04b16317b/Psychology of Gen X Parents (I feel called out. Or described. Or something)2026-02-19T20:45:49+00:00
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FG04zXwaEgM&si=_NC8sMD9qRjjjMEU
andrewduckerpsychology demographics history videohttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c301fb98e02a/Sizing chaos - an incredibly visualised look at how and why women's clothes sizing is a mess that lets down half of all women2026-02-19T15:20:47+00:00
https://pudding.cool/2026/02/womens-sizing/
andrewduckerwomen clothing visualisation OhForFucksSake history societyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b1cacbcd91eb/Happy 25th anniversary "All Your Base Are Belong To Us"2026-02-17T10:53:21+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orY1RztncqE
andrewduckerhistory meme videohttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d89779450bf2/The Agile Manifesto is 25 years old!2026-02-12T13:11:20+00:00
https://agilemanifesto.org/
andrewduckersoftware development historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7291c2ac1b00/Etymology of "Foo"2026-02-08T16:57:09+00:00
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3092
andrewduckerlanguage history swearinghttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9f4e5c5e1676/Did people drink water in the Middle Ages?2026-02-02T09:33:06+00:00
https://www.medievalists.net/2023/05/drink-water-middle-ages/
andrewduckerwater historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:85c94171ea8d/I have no mouth and I must scream at Black people: Scott Adams, 1957-20262026-02-01T17:34:28+00:00
https://www.tcj.com/i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-scream-at-black-people-scott-adams-1957-2026/
andrewduckerdilbert history politics obituaryhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:35818b413a98/Who Goes Nazi? (A newspaper article from 1941)2026-02-01T16:11:24+00:00
https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
andrewduckernazis history viaKennyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:a2fefc9406c2/The mountain that weighed the Earth2026-01-26T19:27:04+00:00
https://signoregalilei.com/2026/01/18/the-mountain-that-weighed-the-earth/
andrewduckerhistory physics mountains earthhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d4b1fa457b5d/Television is 100 years old today2026-01-26T18:19:31+00:00
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/01/tv100.html?m=1
andrewduckerTV history technologyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:87e3611e7071/When the United Kingdom annexed a north Atlantic island (and what they might do with it)2026-01-22T09:44:01+00:00
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/when-the-united-kingdom-annexed-a?publication_id=474138&post_id=185391841&isFreemail=false&r=gnd9m&triedRedirect=true
andrewduckerscotland uk politics history funnyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:ad9b1775680f/1970 Paris, cut into a grid and photographed2026-01-11T13:36:25+00:00
https://paris1970.jeantho.eu/index.html
andrewduckerParis photos historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0b14c561b272/The sugar industry deliberately shifted the heart disease focus to saturated fat2026-01-07T15:41:01+00:00
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2016/09/404081/sugar-papers-reveal-industry-role-shifting-national-heart-disease-focus
andrewduckersugar diet fat OhForFucksSake historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0c62681a939b/"A Visit to Edinburgh" (Colorized - 1948 - Full documentary)2026-01-05T09:49:01+00:00
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RIw5swnCThg
andrewduckerdocumentary Edinburgh video Scotland historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:e7189f2f0a98/Ken MacLeod on the life and work of the late sc-fi legend Iain M. Banks2026-01-01T10:40:44+00:00
https://youtube.com/watch?v=r7OW6A8XCgg&si=RGnRh2pxyLaawSJM
andrewduckerIainBanks scifi video history KenMacleodhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:e7d60252c816/O Generous One! -(The Origin of "Carol of the Bells")2025-12-30T10:47:50+00:00
https://sonia.dreamwidth.org/496117.html
andrewduckerchristmas ukraine history music video translationhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:bb3870e058d3/The First Photographs of Snowflakes (1885)2025-12-26T09:10:45+00:00
https://www.openculture.com/2017/12/the-first-photographs-of-snowflakes.html
andrewduckersnow photos historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c82b18424c8f/What Happens When Netflix Buys Warner Bros. (nothing good)2025-12-17T23:05:12+00:00
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tCcTEIHeDdA
andrewduckernetflix movies history WarnerBrothers video doomhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9312e3c2ad65/Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks2025-12-15T11:53:35+00:00
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/99293-last-call-for-mass-market-paperbacks.html
andrewduckerviaJamesNicoll books publishing historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:842b74cfa18a/Twins reared apart do not exist (The shaky science of genetic determinism)2025-12-14T11:43:30+00:00
https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/twins-reared-apart-do-not-exist
andrewduckergenetics twins iq history psychologyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:1726abefc53c/Are economic bubbles good, actually?2025-12-11T22:05:18+00:00
https://timharford.com/2025/12/are-bubbles-good-actually/
andrewduckereconomics business historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:4d80cf7c9f6b/Study Finds Young People Now Watch More YouTube Content Than Zoetropes Of Galloping Horses2025-12-10T14:28:58+00:00
https://theonion.com/study-finds-young-people-now-watch-more-youtube-content-than-zoetropes-of-galloping-horses/
andrewduckersatire news history youtubehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:645021cb748b/"The Matilda Effect": How Pioneering Women Scientists Have Been Written Out of Science History2025-12-08T21:33:13+00:00
https://www.openculture.com/2025/12/matilda-effect.html
andrewduckerscience women history patriarchyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:99113dc24629/Vintage Photographs of People Reading Newspapers Before the Invention of That Grossly Antisocial Device: The Smartphone2025-12-08T09:00:37+00:00
https://www.vintag.es/2018/12/people-reading-newspapers.html?m=1
andrewduckerphotos newspapers reading society historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b17f3d9df773/Trans Holocaust History2025-12-06T22:03:36+00:00
https://elierlick.com/transholocaust/
andrewduckerhistory LGBT transgender holocaust Germany Nazishttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:06d3f0bdbbdc/Tides are weirder than you think2025-12-06T14:01:48+00:00
https://signoregalilei.com/2025/11/12/tides-are-weirder-than-you-think/
andrewduckertides gravity moon sun mathematics historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:550416bd166c/"We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals"2025-12-02T08:20:49+00:00
https://theconversation.com/we-built-a-database-of-290-000-english-medieval-soldiers-heres-what-it-reveals-270750
andrewduckerwar military history viaZornhauhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:96c09ddbf063/Russia Today and the Fremen Mirage2025-11-23T16:01:16+00:00
https://www1.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2025/11/23/russia-today-and-the-fremen-mirage/
andrewduckerpolitics society war history Russia Ukrainehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:1ee0502a599f/The Uncertain Origins of Aspirin (a fascinating piece of history, neatly dividing myths from evidence)2025-11-22T23:48:55+00:00
https://press.asimov.com/articles/aspirin
andrewduckerdrugs history mythshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:214b0258c077/Where nobody knows your name... - Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.2025-11-21T16:40:38+00:00
https://joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobody-knows-your-name
andrewduckerTV history faces photos pubshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:eb9e0a3da283/Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source2025-11-20T19:52:25+00:00
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source
andrewduckergames history Microsoft opensourcehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:54fa51e75838/Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died2025-11-18T10:52:52+00:00
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/legendary-game-designer-programmer-space-invaders-champion-and-lgbtq-trailblazer-rebecca-heineman-has-died/
andrewduckerhistory obituary games lgbthttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:ab03874bfbe3/James Watson: From DNA pioneer to untouchable pariah2025-11-09T13:26:57+00:00
https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/james-watson-remembrance-from-dna-pioneer-to-pariah/
andrewduckerbiography DNA history viaPatrickHadfieldhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:09fdae6b081f/Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans2025-11-09T09:37:03+00:00
https://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/06/17/interactive_map_loss_of_indian_land.html
andrewduckerhistory USA maps visualisationhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:dc80d8e3fcba/The modern homes hidden inside ancient ruins2025-11-08T19:57:12+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/5f722a2e-71d8-430c-a476-95de2c4ad9a5
andrewduckerarchitecture historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:2ca356cf3c05/What percentage of English derives from which languages?2025-11-06T20:21:47+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-language_influences_in_English
andrewduckerlanguage english uk historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b2a30c528fd6/Tolkien, Lewis, and The Silver Chair Theory2025-11-04T22:01:13+00:00
https://www.tumblr.com/andrewducker/799319528232435712?source=share
andrewduckerTolkien CSLewis history writing lotr narnia relationshipshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:cc33a6e84cf4/When Stick Figures Fought (A history of the stick figure combat flash animations of the early 200s)2025-11-04T09:44:49+00:00
https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-stick-figures-fought
andrewduckerhistory fighting animation web Flashhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:e2a2bf2d2f27/How Ancient People Saw Themselves (a history of mirrors)2025-10-31T10:50:29+00:00
https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/how-ancient-people-saw-themselves
andrewduckermirrors history archeologyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b83336db7b54/Time Immemorial turns 750: The Medieval law that froze history at 11892025-10-26T18:10:24+00:00
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/time-immemorial-turns-750-the-medieval-law-that-froze-history-at-1189-84893/
andrewduckerhistory law UK viaPatrickHadfieldhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:be31599c1bb5/The nerdiest music video of all time2025-10-24T11:43:07+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhitH0BnDX4
andrewduckerwargames video music history uk francehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7dfe8f986592/Tracking down the Romans who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius2025-10-22T13:35:49+00:00
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/its-really-an-extraordinary-story-historian-steven-tuck-says-of-the-romans-he-tracked-who-survived-the-ad-79-eruption-of-mount-vesuvius
andrewduckerRome history volcano viaPatrickHadfieldhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9b0d1461733f/Da Vinci and Michelangelo drawings go on display in Scotland for first time (Kings Gallery in Edinburgh)2025-10-19T10:25:07+00:00
https://news.stv.tv/east-central/da-vinci-and-michelangelo-drawings-go-on-display-in-scotland-for-first-time
andrewduckerScotland art historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:bdc7de17b050/I just went to see Alfred Buckham: Daredevil Photographer At The Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Recommended2025-10-18T13:19:47+00:00
https://artmag.co.uk/alfred-buckhams-aerial-view-at-the-scottish-national-portrait-gallery/
andrewduckerart photography history Edinburgh Scotlandhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:884a3d2da034/Lothian Buses celebrates a century of keeping Edinburgh moving through the night with the Night Bus2025-10-18T08:12:13+00:00
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/lothian-buses-celebrates-a-century-of-keeping-edinburgh-moving-through-the-night-5365044
andrewduckerEdinburgh buses night historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:811963d478f8/Have you made the Ur-Ur error?2025-10-14T19:23:23+00:00
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ur
andrewduckerlanguage historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c5fc94cfd7e9/Malinche has long been blamed for the fall of Aztec empire. Now she’s being viewed in a different light2025-10-13T18:26:06+00:00
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/mexico-claudia-sheinbaum-malinche-history-b2844248.html
andrewduckerhistory mexicohttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c52bf0fe5854/What Did People Do Before Smartphones? (I carried a book at all times)2025-10-04T08:52:36+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/before-smartphones-boredom/674631/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=68df9ecb073f7f0001a8109c
andrewduckerphones history boredomhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d49d00a1a359/List of wars involving the United Kingdom (Guess how many!)2025-09-29T18:48:54+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_Kingdom
andrewduckerwar uk historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:dbabd69ca48c/We've found Mendel's genes!2025-09-28T18:18:46+00:00
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12221995/
andrewduckergenetics history vegetableshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:a87da35e14c8/Ancestry and the NRS - when the corporate genealogy world turns ugly2025-09-26T15:48:10+00:00
https://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2025/09/ancestry-and-nrs-when-corporate.html?m=1
andrewduckerhistory business Scotlandhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:94184a638c66/Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (a headline from 1939)2025-09-21T08:04:43+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/archives/goebbels-ends-careers-of-five-aryan-actors-who-made-witticisms.html
andrewduckernazis censorship society historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:a53a2d185cba/How were escalators invented, and how safe are they? (very, unless your maintenance people are corrupt)2025-09-12T15:47:57+00:00
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tZ8ehplVFp4
andrewduckerdesign technology safety video historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3d9a46156c87/Would you like some reasons to have hope about the environment?2025-09-11T16:28:10+00:00
https://www.tumblr.com/andrewducker/794409528834818048/why-bother-caring-about-the-environment-when-1?source=share
andrewduckerhope nature history environmenthttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:5ce0528b3464/What holes are there in the Big Bang theory?2025-09-11T15:09:44+00:00
https://aeon.co/essays/why-might-the-big-bang-theory-be-in-crisis-very-soon
andrewduckerBigBangTheory physics science historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:e84eeb3a5236/The General(s) Who Defied a President2025-09-09T19:01:48+00:00
https://angrystaffofficer.com/2025/09/08/the-general-who-defied-a-president/
andrewduckerUSA history viaDanielDWilliamhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:17c48f53a703/This is why we don't read the Golden Age of science fiction any more.2025-09-06T14:51:45+00:00
https://undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-we-dont-read-the-golden-age-anymore/?fbclid=IwdGRleAMpIUZjbGNrAykgaWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeBsFQndNhKieOMjLjtr0P6lRfcUAM19xWxVNbR4Y8e1G4J24oT74e4XXRLF4_aem_1stNroHs_dmtHO0utTKsvA
andrewduckerscifi history societyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3dfb5ef6abdc/A historian reviews King & Conqueror (neither good nor accurate)2025-08-28T21:14:56+00:00
https://historiamag.com/review-king-conqueror/
andrewduckerhistory UK TV reviewhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:e825507e277b/How to justify colonialism, Julius Caesar edition2025-08-25T18:56:26+00:00
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/617?fbclid=IwdGRleAMZkEpjbGNrAxmQAWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEeWsP553FwE32URIVXNKN2U4tiRossmFHb6qWKNlXHrCISe6gHuLXwf8MsT-4_aem_PZKiRqDA0s9fGA1lioI6Zw
andrewduckerhistory comic moralityhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d2f4541567da/Ancient Nomadic Scythians Found to be Ethnically Diverse2025-08-24T07:27:54+00:00
https://www.juancole.com/2025/08/ancient-scythians-ethnically.html
andrewduckerrace ethnicity history viaPatrickHadfieldhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d40ec2277ba0/Elizabeth I and the 'Blackamoors': the Deportation that never was2025-08-22T14:20:37+00:00
https://www.mirandakaufmann.com/blog/elizabeth-i-and-the-blackamoors-the-deportation-that-never-was
andrewduckerviaNancyLebov racism history ukhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:1981d0bcea51/