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Scotsman op-ed: “what kind of man Trump really is”.
Link. A good synopsis of the despicable at a moment in history.
Software redo fails: “You aren’t working with people who were experts in the old system”
Link. Rebuilds need way more attention.
Russian bot strategy: the local news ploy
Link. Russia excels at memewar.
Strzok is tough: “how far many in the party have moved since the days when they were seen as the party of law enforcement”
Link. So funny to have GOP pilloring unfaithful spouses
Evolution favors sunk-cost illogic
Link. Curious
“Three SEAL frogmen were hospitalized after their air tanks ran low.”
Link. The more details, the more insane the success.
Apple Discontinues Photo Printing Service: “Damn; this sucks.”
Link.
Kavanaugh financial incompetence resolved by “friends”
Link. Trump pick.
Hominid species and populations split and merged many times.
Link. As recently as -40k. No “bottleneck”
“None of them are stressed,” he added. “They took care of each other well in the cave.”
Link. These kids are intimidating.
“electrical fields, not viruses, to deliver both gene-editing tools and new genetic material into the cell”
Link. Making cells promiscuous.
“Free Market Environmental Law Clinic”, a denialist scam corp, implodes.
Link. Nasty characters can’t get along.
Papa John’s Founder John Schnatter is an unfixable racist.
Link. Dementia may be contributing.
Short NYT video on cave rescue, narrated by expert.
Link. You can’t skip the pre-ad — even if you are a NYT subscriber.
“Halide is great, but I find myself not reaching for it because it doesn’t support HDR”
Link. Same.
The astounding rescue: sedation use.
Link. I wondered if they would use ketamine. A great choice.
Facebook “trusted” news source focuses on Fox.
Link. They known how to make money.
More details on the impossible rescue.
Link. Just because “only” 1 hero’s death doesn’t mean this wasn’t insane.
Mitochondrial cardiac infusions coming soon
Link. As experiments. Animal models interesting
“Had Mr. Volanthen’s line been 15 feet shorter, he would most likely have missed them.”
Link. Early details on the rescue
UK fines Facebook: “seven minutes of Facebook’s averaged Q1 2018 revenue.”
Link. Nordic fines are revenue adjusted
“Ukraine for Syria”: where Russia, Israel, UAE, Saudis and Trump all had shared interests
Link. Splitting Iran from Russia
“far-right, white militias in the West can commit acts of terrorism and violate federal law more or less with impunity”
Link. GOP is the Party of Trump now.
Interpreter for the lost boys: “Adul, the stateless descendant of a Wa ethnic tribal branch once known for headhunting”
Link. Humanity hope.
The politics of abortion: voters mixed, parties unified
Link. Primaries.
“90 percent of people who were vaping and smoking cigarettes at the start of the study were still smoking cigarettes a year later.”
Link. Treat vaping as smoking.
“Kavanaugh showed a judicious flexibility to allow his views to evolve as they were applied to either Democrats or Republicans, to political foes or friends.”
Link. Corrupt. Inevitably. Dems job is to expose, deny GOP deniability.
We’re due for another plague. We don’t have Bush or Obama.
Link. Everyone is afraid of how Trump will react.
“no individual brand is as predictive of being high-income as owning an Apple iPhone in 2016”
Link. Well known paradox that it takes money to be thrifty.
Thesis: Trump Has Been a Russian Asset Since 1987.
Link. In the movies nobody suspects the President is a traitor. In reality his party suspects … and stays silent.
Trump v NATO: “President Trump is hostile to the very concept of our primary alliances in Europe and Northeast Asia,”
Link. Or he’s an idiot. Most likely both
Center for Inquiry (CFI) sues CVS for peddling fraudulent remedies
Link. Homeopathy
“If you were to add up all the dark matter inside all the humans on Earth at any one instant, it would come out to no more than a single nanogram.”
Link. I’d have guessed far more.
“hoped-for administrative savings from HIT have not materialized, even as HIT seems to have had a positive impact on clinical outcomes.”
Link. Failed at both admin cost AND productivity. Deeply disappointing.
No relationship between statin use and OA
Link. Doesn’t reduce risk. Alas.
Fermi paradox topic: how essential is our particular solar system?
Link. Probably not very.
Canada: “Down-on-their-luck towns like Chesterville, Ontario, hope that marijuana will reverse economic decline.”
Link. During Prohibition Canadians built fortunes supplying the US.
“Eyecool … handing over two million facial images each day to a burgeoning big-data police system called Skynet.”
Link. China security tech has dark sense of humor.
Russia on US assholeitude: “we feel that it is wrong when a big country tries to push around some very small countries, especially on an issue that is really important for the rest of the world”
Link. Twisting the knife. And Trump’s their boy-toy.
“Collins and Murkowski have a script: They make centrist-sounding statements, to shore up their images, and then vote aye.”
Link. Don’t angst about SCOTUS. That battle was lost in 2016. Fight the midterms.
GOP steals infant organs for Trump donors …
Link. … only mild exaggeration. Dr Evil flabbergasted.
76 environmental rules reversed by GOP.
Link. Not just Trump, entire GOP. Fixable if voters choose.
Obama on the Trumpista: “They’re mad even when they win”
Link. Murdoch.
Learning to bike as an adult American immigrant.
Link. An adventurous group.
“clusters of phosphorylation events that can be binned and apparently assigned to behavioral phenotypes”
Link. It is incredible that our medications work at all.
Warning to Children by Robert Graves.
Link. Via Derek Lowe, for the curious.
Ægir Brewery in Flåm, Norway
Link. I want to visit Norway. Heard it’s popular though.
Women’s Roles in Agrarian-Age Civilization. DeLong.
Link. Through lens of Abigail Adams. Good read.
“Even the high-end Android market is turning into a commodity market”
Link. Replaying history of Win-Mac.