Five Quick Links for Monday Afternoon

"I recently made a physical object that defies all intuition. It's a square of acrylic, smooth on both sides, totally transparent. A tiny window. But it has the magic property that if you shine a flashlight on it, it forms an image [of a cat]." [mattferraro.dev]

Hospitals and Insurers Didn't Want You to See These Prices. Here's Why. "Hospitals are charging patients wildly different amounts for the same basic services: procedures as simple as an X-ray or a pregnancy test." [nytimes.com]

Great question: which died-too-young artist would you grant 50 more productive years to? Basquiat? Aaliyah? Mozart? Robert Johnson? Janis Joplin? River Phoenix? Selena? Notorious BIG? James Dean? [twitter.com]

Trailer for Foundation (Apple+ series). "Based on the award-winning novels by Isaac Asimov, Foundation chronicles a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire." [youtube.com]

The remains of Josephine Baker will be reinterred at the Pantheon in Paris, the final resting place of many French luminaries. She'll be the first Black woman to be so honored. [apnews.com]

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