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Cephalopods. In Our Time
Link. Podcast
Bacteria that are fond of cancer.
Link. A marriage of convenience
Afghanistan hopes to follow Somalia’s path.
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Laurene Powell Jobs Emerson Collective saves Atlantic, talking to Buzzfeed
Link. She keeps a low profile
Why Micro.blog is Not Another App.net
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“only the chaos of dockless bike share has the potential to remap a formerly car-dominated city by dint of the sheer volume of bikes and people.”
Link. Glad Salmon is back to writing.
Non-college whites rule US elections. Get real Dems.
Link. I fear #metoo, like BLM, plays poorly with WWC.
Online Fax Services
Link. Snakes nest in past so keep just in case c
The story of Ji Seong-ho, a man who escaped NK
Link. Impossible to verify all, but NK brutality is well proven.
“British government allowed itself to offer a Swedish-style public sector while only being able to raise an American level of taxes, putting massive permanent pressure on the government,”
Link. Outsourcing cracked under strain.
“risk of a heart attack in the week after getting the flu was more than six times as high as the risk in any other week”
Link. Put at risk on Plavix week after influenza?
Apple serial number: “MN572LL/A”, the first character will let you know if the device is new, refurbished, replacement, or personalized”
Link. Good reference.
“multi-user support already exists on the iPad, but it’s exclusive to education customers”
Link. Apple is never going to bring it to home users
iOS 11: “A split second before my finger touches the glass, a popup appears in the wild!”
Link. Me too.
iPhone X has screen scratch problem
Link. Tsai headline says 8 also, but stories are X.
“assuming that some readers would be indifferent to millions of potential Korean deaths, Cha emphasized that many Americans would also die”
Link. Is Kelly driving the NK attack madness? What does Murdoch want?
Handheld $1-2K DNA sequencer … and 50K CPU hours.
Link. Still awesome.
GOP Strzok Delusion Deflates.
Link. They will find another.
NYT belatedly declares ad funded services are a bad idea.
Link. Tax ads like tobacco.
Real GOP achievement: “Annual deficits are creeping up to $1 trillion and the national debt has topped $20 trillion”
Link. The hilarity
Wait time for Apple battery swap: 4 months
Link. They need to start offering trade-in for new phone.
“Supplements containing omega-3 fatty acids, the oils abundant in fatty fish, are ineffective for the prevention of heart disease”
Link. Expected.
Facing crisis China experiments with health care
Link. Surprisingly prosaic. AI retinal imaging done here too
Another routine failure of US missile defense system.
Link. Is this even possible?
We don’t understand brain response to trauma
Link. Really, WTF?! How could brain be so fragile?
Trump won’t really change H-1B visa program
Link. True.
Google flights shows hidden fees and predicts travel delays
Link. The war between airlines and travelers continues
‘Type to Siri’ as a Smart Command Line
Link. Can we do this on mac?
Fact-Check of Trump SOTU
Link. Posted as reference. No need to read
Trump tobacco investor CDC head resigns.
Link. Scraped through barrel bottom, now digging up poop.
“Trump wants us to be scared of brown people based on nothing at all.”
Link. This sort of thing has never happened anywhere before.
Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse.
Link. Humans, unlike frogs, adapt to water being boiled.
“There is just no reason to go to High Sierra; it’s all negatives.”
Link. I was planning on updating in August 2018.
“aggressive ethno-nationalism” and valorization of police
Link. BLM was a useful tool for GOP.
“treat the demagogue like a normal politician who’s failing to deliver”
Link. Berlusconi
The Atlantic on the birth of alternative realities – in the 1960s. (Sept 2017)
Link. Beautiful irony that it was born of the Left but fully realized on Right.
2005: Rise and Fall of the Body-Scanning Clinics.
Link. From the archives, in anticipation of the next medical fad.
Fix iMessages Received Out Of Order.
Link. My wife has this bug. Presumably related to iCloud Message debut. Ugh.
“neither recreational nor intense cycling appear to have a negative impact on men’s sexual and urinary function.”
Link. The concerns started @1995.
NASA map tool “creates population projections of any area you like.”
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Trump, as expected, blocks sanctions on Russia.
Link. Keeping his side of the bargain.
Five Chinese Children Get Lab-Made Ears Grown From Their Own Cells
Link. 1950s style research oversight.
Naked mole rats so not appear to senesce
Link. They are mortal, but age quite differently.
Fix black PDFs in macOS preview.app by recalibrating display.
Link. macOS is now held together only by our shared belief.
“every major iOS 12 feature had been frozen”
Link. So not completely clueless.
“Hadean Earth: a stoutly solid, temperate, meteorite-clear and watery world, an Eden from the very beginning.”
Link. If life is that likely we should see it elsewhere
Italy’s Trump returns
Link. Democracy is dying.
“dingoes had taken the first steps toward a second domestication event”
Link. Faster than expected, but we already have dogs
The omnigenic model of behavior and hereditability of divorce
Link. Remember predictive medical genomics?