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Would people who are disabled here on Earth make excellent astronauts? Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen thinks they could. This episode of Radiolab takes zero-gravity flight with a host of people with disabilities to explore that question.

This podcast brought me so much joy in experiencing the participants’ profound joy in both weightlessness and freedom. It also brought me so much sadness with respect to how far we’ve yet to come with our treatment of people with disabilities here on Earth. In the end though, it left me with hope though. Lots of hope.

See also: AstroAccess




Div divisiveness

If you’re at all confused about when it’s cool to use a div and when it’s not, this is the post for you.



Breaking Out of the Box

Years ago we started thinking about how PWAs could extend their reach into the titlebar (like Electron apps can) and it’s finally a reality! Check out this deep dive from Patrick Brosset to learn how to do it with just a little bit of CSS and/or JavaScript.