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πŸ”— Paraloid B-72

πŸ”— Chemicals

Paraloid B-72 or B-72 is a thermoplastic resin that was created by Rohm and Haas for use as a surface coating and as a vehicle for flexographic ink. Subsequently, it has found popular use as an adhesive by conservator-restorers, specifically in the conservation and restoration of ceramic objects, glass objects, the preparation of fossils, the hardening of piano hammers, and can also be used for labeling museum objects.

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πŸ”— Clanker

πŸ”— Internet culture πŸ”— Science Fiction πŸ”— Robotics πŸ”— Discrimination πŸ”— English Language πŸ”— Star Wars πŸ”— Artificial Intelligence

"Clanker" is a derogatory term for robots and artificial intelligence (AI) software. The term has been used in Star Wars media, first appearing in the franchise's 2005 video game Star Wars: Republic Commando. By 2025, the term had become widely used to express hatred or distaste for machines ranging from delivery robots to large language models. This trend has been attributed to anxiety around the negative societal effects of AI.

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πŸ”— Cahokia

πŸ”— United States πŸ”— Middle Ages πŸ”— Middle Ages/History πŸ”— Archaeology πŸ”— Indigenous peoples of North America πŸ”— Cities πŸ”— World Heritage Sites πŸ”— Illinois πŸ”— National Register of Historic Places πŸ”— Historic sites πŸ”— Protected areas πŸ”— St. Louis

The Cahokia Mounds (also simply known as Cahokia) (11 MS 2) is the site of a Native American city (which existed c. 1050–1350 CE) directly across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis. The state archaeology park lies in south-western Illinois between East St. Louis and Collinsville. The park covers 2,200 acres (890Β ha), or about 3.5 square miles (9Β km2), and contains about 80 manmade mounds, but the ancient city was much larger. At its apex around 1100 CE, the city covered about 6 square miles (16Β km2), included about 120 earthworks in a wide range of sizes, shapes, and functions, and had a population of between 15,000 and 20,000 people.

Cahokia was the largest and most influential urban settlement of the Mississippian culture, which developed advanced societies across much of what is now the Central and the Southeastern United States, beginning around 1000 CE. Today, the Cahokia Mounds are considered to be the largest and most complex archaeological site north of the great pre-Columbian cities in Mexico.

The city's original name is unknown. The mounds were later named after the Cahokia tribe, a historic Illiniwek people living in the area when the first French explorers arrived in the 17th century. As this was centuries after Cahokia was abandoned by its original inhabitants, the Cahokia tribe was not necessarily descended from the earlier Mississippian-era people. Most likely, multiple indigenous ethnic groups settled in the Cahokia Mounds area during the time of the city's apex.

Cahokia Mounds is a National Historic Landmark and a designated site for state protection. It is also one of the 26 UNESCO World Heritage Sites within the United States. The largest pre-Columbian earthen construction in the Americas north of Mexico, the site is open to the public and administered by the Illinois Historic Preservation Division and supported by the Cahokia Mounds Museum Society. In celebration of the 2018 Illinois state bicentennial, the Cahokia Mounds were selected as one of the Illinois 200 Great Places by the American Institute of Architects Illinois component (AIA Illinois). It was recognized by USA Today Travel magazine, as one of the selections for 'Illinois 25 Must See Places'.

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πŸ”— Wife Acceptance Factor

πŸ”— Radio πŸ”— Psychology πŸ”— Women πŸ”— Electronics πŸ”— Retailing πŸ”— Home Living πŸ”— Gender Studies πŸ”— Feminism

Wife acceptance factor, wife approval factor, or wife appeal factor (WAF) is an assessment of design elements that either increase or diminish the likelihood a wife will approve the purchase of expensive consumer electronics products such as high-fidelity loudspeakers, home theater systems and personal computers. Stylish, compact forms and appealing colors are commonly considered to have a high WAF. The term is a tongue-in-cheek play on electronics jargon such as "form factor" and "power factor" and derives from the idea that men are predisposed to appreciate gadgetry and performance criteria whereas women must be wooed by visual and aesthetic factors.

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πŸ”— List of people imprisoned for editing Wikipedia

πŸ”— Biography πŸ”— Human rights πŸ”— Lists πŸ”— Freedom of speech πŸ”— Crime and Criminal Biography

There are eight known cases of Wikipedia editors being imprisoned for contributing to Wikipedia. In the case of Bassel Khartabil, he was subsequently executed.

πŸ”— Business Plot

πŸ”— United States πŸ”— Human rights πŸ”— History πŸ”— Military history πŸ”— Military history/North American military history πŸ”— Military history/United States military history πŸ”— Philosophy πŸ”— Business πŸ”— Politics πŸ”— Philosophy/Social and political philosophy πŸ”— Alternative Views πŸ”— Sociology πŸ”— Discrimination πŸ”— Politics/American politics πŸ”— United States/U.S. history

The Business Plot was a political conspiracy in 1933 in the United States. Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler revealed that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization with Butler as its leader and use it in a coup d'Γ©tat to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1934, Butler testified before the United States House of Representatives Special Committee on Un-American Activities (the "McCormack–Dickstein Committee") on these revelations. No one was prosecuted.

At the time of the incidents, news media dismissed the plot, with a New York Times editorial characterizing it as a "gigantic hoax". While historians have not accepted the notion of a plot, they agree that Butler described one.

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πŸ”— Human Accelerated Region 1

πŸ”— Molecular Biology πŸ”— Molecular Biology/Genetics

In molecular biology, Human Accelerated Region 1 (Highly Accelerated Region 1, HAR1) is a segment of the human genome found on the long arm of chromosome 20. It is a human accelerated region. It is located within a pair of overlapping long non-coding RNA genes, HAR1A (HAR1F) and HAR1B (HAR1R).

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πŸ”— Simon Oxley, famous tech logo designer, has died

πŸ”— Biography πŸ”— Biography/arts and entertainment

Simon Oxley (1969 – April 2026) was a British freelance graphic designer and illustrator who was most famous for designing the original bird logo for Twitter, the Octocat logo for GitHub, the puffer fish for Bitly, and Sammy the Shark for DigitalOcean. Operating predominantly under the studio pseudonym Idokungfoo, Oxley became a pioneer in the microstock economy and played a seminal role in establishing the friendly, mascot-driven aesthetic of the Web 2.0 era.

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πŸ”— Michael Rabin Has Died

πŸ”— Biography πŸ”— Computing πŸ”— Computer science πŸ”— Mathematics πŸ”— Biography/science and academia πŸ”— Cryptography πŸ”— Cryptography/Computer science πŸ”— Israel

Michael Oser Rabin (Hebrew: ΧžΦ΄Χ™Χ›ΦΈΧΦ΅Χœ Χ’Χ•Χ–Χ¨ Χ¨Φ·Χ‘Φ΄ΦΌΧ™ΧŸ; September 1, 1931 – April 14, 2026) was an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist who was co-recipient, with Dana Scott, of the 1976 ACM Turing Award for their work on computational complexity.

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πŸ”— Game Oriented Assembly Lisp

πŸ”— Video games

Game Oriented Assembly Lisp (GOAL) is a programming language, a dialect of the language Lisp, made for video games developed by Andy Gavin and the Jak and Daxter team at the company Naughty Dog.

It was written using Allegro Common Lisp and used in the development of the entire Jak and Daxter series of games.

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