Tue. 11/17 - The Little-Known History of Transgender People

A look at trans figures in history in honor of Transgender Awareness Week. New stretchable sensor gloves that could change the game for robots, physical therapy, and VR. Liquid Death, the over-the-top canned water company, has released their second album of the year. Plus a new release from Waffle House. And a quick extra detail about the Moderna vaccine to add to my rundown from yesterday.

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Links:

• Murdered, Suffocated And Burned Alive: 350 Transgender People Killed In 2020 (Forbes)
• Transgender Awareness Week (GLAAD)
• Genny Beemyn, "Transgender History in the United States" (Genny Beemyn, UMass) 
• Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past by Peter Boag
• Revolutionary by Alex Myers
• ‎One From the Vaults (Apple Podcasts) 
• Disclosure (Netflix)
• Stretchable sensor gives robots and VR a human touch (Cornell Chronicle)
• Researchers create Synthetic Skin that lets you ‘feel’ in virtual reality (Popular Mechanics)
• What you need to know about Liquid Death Mountain Water (Newsday)
• Liquid Death Drops “Greatest Hates Volume II” with Punk Rock Legends (Ghost Cult)
• Waffle House Is Releasing A Bacon-Infused Beer (Delish)
• Dolly Parton partly funded Moderna Covid vaccine research (The Guardian) 
• An mRNA Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 — Preliminary Report (New England Journal of Medicine)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter