Link. It will be a brutal grind with narrow wins and losses in which every vote is critical.
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“At times distant and intensely shy, Mr. Tillerson could often also be quite gracious”
Link. NYT finds sympathy for wrong man on a doomed mission. Food poisoning too!
139 Go Free After Wrongful Convictions
Link. Professional exonerators fight American injustice.
Old cyclists: “… reflexes, memories, balance and metabolic profiles that more closely resembled those of 30-year-old”
Link. Trump’s Wall would buy a lot of bike trails.
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge”
Link. Hawkings quote.
“A value of π to 40 digits would be more than enough to compute the circumference of the Milky Way galaxy to an error less than the size of a proton”
Link. Trillions overkill.
Retire early, live longer.
Link. Benefit surely varies by job.
Apple reputation fall.
Link. I like to think geek disgust with Apple software is having an effect.
TV is broken.
Link. Buy after 2020.
“Goldstein himself was promptly fired by the White House after that statement.”
Link. Trump amok
US Healthcare carefully compared to other nations
Link. Similar care, but we pay more for it.
Tillerson fired after fingering Moscow in attack on UK.
Link. Tillerson crossed red line.
The sunrise plot: why I like DST.
Link. Sun wakes kids too early.
What tariffs can do and can’t do.
Link. Irony of GOP running a managed economy
Political scientist see one option for Dems in 2018 – black voter turnout.
Link. Requires black nominee?
“this action amounts to an unlawful use of force by the Russian state against the United Kingdom, ”
Link. Trump will remain silent
Tobacco industry as evil as it ever was: terrorism against African health advocates.
Link. “Foundation for a Smoke-Free World” is a Philip Morris front.
The Original Siri App Compared to Siri Today
Link. My early Siri experience was she didn’t work at all
Smart Home Security
Link. The alt text is great.
“support for the Toba catastrophe hypothesis”
Link. And no “10,000” human near-extinction bottleneck. Roaches of primate world not so easy to eliminate.
Amputee on bionic arm: “If I have to choose between my arm working or my phone, I’m going to choose my phone”
Link. Makes sense.
Einstein, year before death: “I consider it quite possible that physics cannot be based on the field concept, that is, on continuous structures … Then nothing remains of my entire castle in the air, including the theory of gravitation, but also nothin
Link. Pesky infinities.
“effectiveness of antidepressants was limited for those with moderate depression, and small for those with severe depression.”
Link. Not including valued placebo effect. Better solutions needed
“The Beijing area was required to reduce pollution by 25 percent, and the city set aside an astounding $120 billion for that purpose.”
Link. China’s evidence-based intervention is harsh. Also effective.
Scalzi liked A Wrinkle in Time.
Link. Sounds like a winner.
Giant viruses straddle virus-bacterium divide
Link. Protein synthesis.
Story of the Moriori
Link. Similar to Inuit?
Mauro Morandi, recluse turned naturalist.
Link. Odd but not bad.
Accessing old file formats: on-demand emulation
Link. Some of my files would be a hard challenge.
Google’s relational database in the cloud – Cloud Spanner.
Link. New to me, was introduced in 2017.
You can drag and drop some links into a Google Doc and create a hyperlink text
Link. Wish I’d known this years ago.
Error in Dreamhost WordPress one-click installs – missing code in .htaccess causes 404 errors
Link. WordPress is too complex for what I do. Still, proud I figured this out.
Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and eye disease – 2018 update.
Link. I suspect is inevitably toxic to retina, perhaps related to lysosomal autophagy in low oxygen tissues. Most of us can handle 5 years of damage but no more. Can’t separate therapeutic benefit from toxicity.
YouTube recommendation always extreme: “Videos about vegetarianism led to videos about veganism. Videos about jogging led to videos about running ultramarathons.”
Link. Porn follows similar model. Google found extremes attract compulsive viewing, more ad money. On the right – white nationalist, left HIV conspiracies.
George Soros – Nemesis.
Link. By his enemies we see his character
An experiment to prove gravity is quantized.
Link. Can gravity entangle?
Google finally adds https to its Blogger custom domains … sort of.
Link. Draft Blogger only. Google is about to make vast numbers of Blogger blogs go dark so this better move over fast.
“Trump is imposing negative protection on a lot of manufacturing”
Link. One person’s ingot is another person’s car door.
Navarro, Trump’s Economist: “My function … is to try to provide the underlying analytics that confirm his intuition. And his intuition is always right…”
Link. Kakistocracy.
“it’s no coincidence that there are zero libertarian countries on Earth; social spending is a shared value”
Link. We are “our brothers keeper”.
When imagination becomes memory.
Link. A problem for all humans, but a disabling problem for some special needs adults. There are legal implications.
Nanotech – kinetic inductors.
Link. The last key electronic component goes tiny. Trillion dollar win?
Mathematics of general relativity: recent progress on the black hole stability problem.
Link. Esoteric similarities to Newtonian many-body problem.
The chemistry of Putin’s latest poison.
Link. Will be grimly amusing to watch GOP’s acquiescence to Comrade Trump’s silence.
Arrow of time musings: against entropy alone.
Link. I’m with team Carroll :-). But good discussion.
Eccentric characters: The Blockade and the Lake
Link. I hope the Lake goes well.
Athletic star: “8-year-old Oksana Masters — three feet tall, 35 pounds, no thumbs and misshapen legs”
Link. Will.
“rift within the administration over whether and how directly to attack climate change science”
Link. Koonin sounds like a nutter.
“Siri of eight years ago was, in some circumstances, more capable than the Siri of today.”
Link. Apple fail
Hawaiian Stick Spiders show evolution being textbook
Link. Darwin would smile.