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US: $2.8 trillion on counterterrorism since 9/11
Link. Ubiquitous surveillance.
Tejate, a beverage of Oaxaca.
Link. Worth exporting.
Tecfidera for MS: “population of immune cells gets shifted around in ways that benefit autoimmune disease.”
Link. Incredible that people survive the effect.
Universe not necessarily fine-tuned.
Link. At least wrt dark energy.
“When food is restricted, or a metabolic pathway is silenced or slowed down, nucleoli shrink, making fewer ribosomes, and cells live longer.”
Link.
Requiem for Time magazine — NYT.
Link. Time was good in the 60s and 70s, but by 80s The Economist took the top end of the news market. It was a long fall from there.
Winger meme: shootings because “the underlying problem is that too many boys are on Ritalin.”
Link. I think this is not new, that Ritalin has a weird reputation on the right.
Editing HTML tables in 2018 on Mac — it’s still SeaMonkey.
Link. I blame CSS for the crummy state of HMTL table editors. SeaMonkey is not pretty, but it does the job.
Snapshot of a changing world – electric fat bikes.
Link. Something new with consequences good and bad.
Why US healthcare is worse: luxury instead of health.
Link. Yes. I think that is a factor. Compare VA.
More AI in drug discovery.
Link. Big things coming next decade
Silicon based drugs.
Link. Still unclear value.
“Radical Markets” – review/critique
Link. Short and worthy.
“a system that consistently fails to protect students and their teachers from death by firearms–that instead of solutions, has experts in school shootings on speed dial–cannot be called anything else but a failure.”
Link. Failed state.
“Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) recently introduced a three-year pilot program offering a guaranteed job in 15 urban and rural places”
Link. This is good even though Bernstein dodges the root cause of mass disability.
“Microsoft Office “12” is built by about 30 product groups, each with about 3-5 feature teams, each with 5-8 developers”
Link. Old but good.
“… long-term performance of companies “depends far more on the unsung commitment and contributions of their ‘B’ players.”
Link. I believe this.
In 2009 I was wondering about how iPhone 3GS would help with disabilities…
Link. 9 years later Apple still doesn’t think about how to help uses with cognitive disabilities. I have many suggestions…
Welcome To Alaska – when your child takes you in a novel direction (2006)
Link. I remembered writing this, took me a while to find it. Good essay.
“The robot is literally worlds different from a human being, in that it is essentially decent.”
Link. Potentially, whereas human drivers are essentially dreck
Chemistry: “a completely new analytical method has been invented”
Link. Chiral separation
Knights Templar knew how to avoid infection
Link. That’s weird. Shame that knowledge was lost to Europe.
CHIP -> MGUS -> Multiple Myeloma
Link. At least some of the time.
Gmail UI refresh deprecates Contacts.
Link. I believe a fresh iOS install hides Contacts.app away in a ‘less used’ folder. Interesting evolution – automation rather than curation/maintenance.
NYT reference on American mass shootings: It’s the guns, stupid.
Link. Good reference.
Catch 22: Special needs students in transition programs can’t take community college classes in Minnesota
Link. An unexpected consequence of the odd evolution of transition programs.
“Even though you can extend space-time beyond the Cauchy horizon, Einstein’s equations can’t be solved”
Link. Stressing the limits of using equatioms to predict reality.
FileMaker goes business only.
Link. Gradually moving that way for years.
AI development: “3.5 month-doubling time (by comparison, Moore’s Law had an 18-month doubling period)”
Link. Nothing singular here.
The Emancipation of the Serfs
Link. Tsar Alexander II 1861. Coincident with end of American slavery
“You get canker sores if you pee off a bridge.”
Link. Many of these my mother told me, i think she believed the swimming cramps story
Chiton neuroanatomy.
Link. 19th century illustrations and hypotheses buried in footnotes
Remembering the ‘Knocker-Ups’ Hired to Wake Workers With Pea Shooters
Link. Some active until 70s
Lawns Are an Ecological Disaster.
Link. My “lawn” is good then.
Stuxnet is the most complex software we know of.
Link. Nobody can take credit.
Animals have varying cognitive skills, not rankable “intelligence”
Link. Context specific. Humans same
Fermi question refactored.
Link. Best treatment I’ve seen: “When our uncertainty is properly accounted for in the model, we find a substantial a priori chance that there is no other intelligent life in our observable universe”.
Snail learning transmitted through RNA transplant
Link. I remember the flatworm studies.
“working out the muscles on one side of our bodies can keep the muscles on the other side strong and fit, even if we do not move them at all”
Link. Oh, come on!! What’s next?
“biggest mistake that most athletes make is they train too easy on their hard days, and too hard on their easy days.”
Link. Boomers last gift: geriatric training.
Acupuncture Does Not Improve Pregnancy Rates
Link. Shocker
Blogger loses some features: “We know change isn’t always easy”
Link. Next time leave out the fake sympathy.
US “total fertility rate was 1.76 children per every woman over a lifetime”
Link. Without large immigration we are Japan
“Trump’s corruption is only a symptom of a bigger problem: a G.O.P. that will do anything, even betray the nation, in its pursuit of partisan advantage”
Link. America is basically in free fall.
Dem Senators learn they were chumps to honor past GOP judicial blocks.
Link. Idiots
DeVos blocks investigations into her friend’s frauds.
Link. GOP.
“Aimovig blocks a protein fragment, CGRP, that instigates and perpetuates migraines”
Link. CGRP role isn’t as clear as this statement implies
AmazonHealth looking floppish.
Link. Dang.
Tribalism, “New atheists”, and IQ genetics.
Link. Groan. Useful to know the gnats are back again.