Category: Other Cool Blogs

Other Cool Blogs: Elle Cordova

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You have seen her battle as the Grammarian, trade veiled insults as fonts, rap about science, follow her stolen iPhone across the glove, host book clubs,  and so many other things. Elle Cordova is witty, wonderful, and worth watching. Befriend her on at least one of her platforms so you are never without her humor.

Her patreon ( https://www.patreon.com/ellecordova?utm_source=campaign-search-results ) gives you access to her book club and has monthly levels of $4, $12, and $20 (if you want to and are able to support her creativity). It does look like she has enough people (at the moment) to produce content full-time which provides us with entertainment as she can devote a few days to craft amazing ditties like “Monster Slash” (it’s a short and doesn’t copy and paste into websites.

I have subscribed to her both on YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/@ElleCordova/featured ) and TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/@elle.cordova ). She also has a facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/ellecordovamusic ), and likely other social medias platforms. Her name is unique enough that if she is there, it will show up in a search.

From YouTube, here is one of the many conversations Fonts have had:

 

Other Cool Blogs: Sky and Telescope

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3i/ATLAS is hurdling our way, the third confirmed and recorded interstellar object, believed to have come from much closer to the Milky Way core on its way out to the infinite.

David L. Chandler on July 28, 2025 did an article for Sky & Telescope “Interstellar Comet 3i/ATLAS: What We Know Now”. Lots of cool details about this fleet-footed visitor. What I enjoyed most about the article is the section on “Capturing the Comet at Perihelion”. Timing is crucial to see Comet 3i/ATLAS closest approach to the sun, and for Earth observation, it’s not happening. We will be on the other side of the sun. But because we have machines scattered throughout the system, there is a chance for the satellites we have around Mars and Jupiter to see what happens when this unique comet is at its warmest. It will take some finagling and cooperation. What sends me Geeking is we have OPTIONS, even when Earth isn’t in the right spot. This is what science does. It gives so many options.

If Sky & Telescope publishes stuff that is your jam, you might want to go over to that Other Cool Blog, read up on 3i/ATLAS and other astronomy news. – full URL: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-what-we-know-now/

Other Cool Blogs: Jeremy Keeshin (@jkeesh) 4/8/2025

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Over on Threadreaderapp, Jeremy Keeshin hosts a blog thread about making computer science more engaging. The one post assembled on April 8, 2025 is a reconstruction of 23 tweets on X (an app whose owner would asphyxiate to realize that the structure of modern software was created by women).

See, men made a machine, but entering numbers and what-not, well that is women’s work. “Human computers” that put men on the moon, that calculate missile trajectories during WWII, that entered all the data for income taxes, etc. Women did meticulous detail work, not men.

To program the first machine so it could actually calculate numbers, six women were hired: Betty Holberton, Jean Bartik, Kay McNulty, Ruth Teitelbaum, Marlyn Meltzer, and Frances Spence.

Find out more on the thread reader app: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1909626044845621299.html

Other postings by Mr. Keeshin include a female blogging about life under Taliban rule, MIT’s interrogate program,  and details about Alan Turing and why he got erased from history.