Whether they did their laundry as a household chore during childhood or just learned during their first year of college, residents living on the Hill quickly discover that they are each responsible for owning a laundry basket, detergent and dryer sheets, as well as managing the funds to afford washing and drying.
The Cal Youth Democratic Socialists of America, or YDSA, posted a petition for free laundry in campus dorms in late November which now boasts 450 signatures.
Automatic speech recognition systems add age-inappropriate captions to children’s YouTube videos. An AI technology that will let you create digital images by describing what you want to see. In praise of the em dash. Celebrating the 100th anniversary of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” Improving the recyclability of flexible plastic packaging. Graphene may save lives. Required reading: “The Price of Nails Since 1695.” What was statistically the most boring day in history? Mushrooms speak! A mobile phone umbrella, for some reason. All that and more in WhatTheyThink’s dead serious weekly miscellany.