morning reading

Data: "Every time during that 7 days I ran into a particular kind of inaccessibility, I wrote to the owner/relevant authority and asked them to fix it. I aimed for short, factual, informative request letters." ... with the results you might expect if you took two minutes to think about it. Useful to have for shooting down the "disabled people need to just ask for accommodations, then they’d be given them" theory.

Researchers discover original bacteria of the Black Death: "Our next goal is to sequence the entire DNA." I can't think of anything that could possibly go wrong with this plan.

Mr. Nobody: How Children Use Metaphor to Get to Sleep, Cope, Grieve and Grow: as the title says. Wow.

Actual content later.