Link. Trump pardon … or else.
Monthly Archives: November 2017
Describing cellular construction as home building
Link. “Tools are materials; materials are tools”. Alien
Matriarch of Sapelo Island, Georgia. Obit.
Link. Africa in America.
“private equity firms, which are buying up dermatology practices around the country, and installing crews of lesser-trained practitioners”
Link. Caveat emptor.
“Minnesota is seeking $5 billion in damages from 3M”
Link. Cancer. This could be a big trial.
Win XP Wallpaper: Sonoma, California
Link. Popular spot for photographers.
“Planes must slide to a halt before reaching the end of a 1,312-foot runway flanked by cliffs to avoid plunging into the ocean below.”
Link. Interesting airports
Bystanders give men CPR more than women
Link. Fear of touching stranger’s breasts.
Murderer Hafiz Saeed free to campaign in Pakistan.
Link. $10 million American bounty.
Recommitting to Resistance: “secure the support of the racists, misogynists and homophobes.”
Link. I am thankful for the Resistance.
How many calories does menstruation use?
I couldn’t find a scholarly article on this. Which is weird. Maybe research is old.
Women’s magazines estimate around 200-300 calories, they typically source a physician known to the journalist.
At the high end that is 3,600 calories a year, roughly a 1lb yearly weight gain if not menstruating and nothing else changes.
“Owning a dog was associated with a 20 percent lower risk of all-cause death”
Link. Correlation. Huge effect, doubt causal that large.
Worm sperm causes oocytes to dump damaged proteins
Link. Research now funded by Calico, Google immortality initiative.
CJD prions found in skin
Link. Will change surgical practice and probably diagnosis.
Net neutrality: “government agencies are not free to abruptly reverse longstanding rules on which many have relied without a good reason”
Link. Thin reed indeed
Progress of sorts – integrating my simplenote memory extensions with gDrive
Link. Convoluted kludge, but adaptable and knowledge portable
Why does earth life use 20 codons in triplets?
Link. “horizontal gene transfer will work only if the codes in both partners exchanging genes are identical.”
“American intelligence agencies had come to believe that Russian president Vladimir Putin had “leverages of pressure” over Trump”
Link. Catastrophe GOP.
Transhumanist biohackers and FDA action
Link. Good way to kill billions. Consider death penalty
Outdoor LED increase light rather than save energy
Link. People like light and energy is cheap
In 1978 Margaret Mead proposed a taboo on sex with colleagues
Link. Feasible in era of dating apps
BuzzFeed exposes massive YouTube child exploitation videos.
Link. 8 million followers. Bots aside, likely all male. Time to eliminate a gender.
Why aren’t men in medicine getting outed for sexual harassment?
Link. Is prevalence same in all occupations?
“13 women who have publicly come forward with claims that Trump had physically touched them inappropriately”
Link. With witnesses.
Comcast über alles
Link. The 90s are dead. What now?
Russia to Google: don’t mess with my attack vectors
Link. Memewars
Pai (GOP) will preempt state net neutrality.
Link. Lawsuits may slow but elections needed
Facebook will not restrain itself
Link. Does any corporation ever self-reform?
‘Little House on the Prairie’ and the roots of Trumpism.
Link. Wonder if Charles was also bipolar
NYC has Amazon disease
Link. Nobody knows where this goes
Obamacare enrollment: GOP sabotage will be effective
Link. Whites wanted this. Women too.
Google’s innovative approach to entering data into electronic health records.
Link. Extract fragments of meaning from conversation rather than transcribe speech.
Google Lens.
Link. Will they do iOS version?
GOP fake IRS scandal dies.
Link. “Lois Lerner’s legal bills”. Scum.
Uber illegally concealed data breech.
Link. I’m done using Uber.
Pruitt’s EPA is as bad as expected
Link. Campaign
Facebook Still Lets Landlords Discriminate by Race and Disability
Link. “technical failure”
Apple’s continued weakness for cancer quackery
Link. Steve Jobs died of quackery
MailChimp Switches to Single Opt-In – more spam inevitable
Link. Death spiral
Death by Derivatives. A historical story with a twist
Link. Don’t miss the last paragraph
Net neutrality dead. For now
Link. Don’t like MurdochNet? Vote Dem.
Over 400 of the world’s most popular websites record your every keystroke
Link. Assume anything you do on a connected device is public
Traffic Safety Orgs are auto lobbying groups.
Link. Natural for a vast industry.
Honorary titles of American states
Link. Admiral of Nebraska.
Soon a mass shooting a day.
Link. When gun control comes it will be brutal.
Apple flakes: execs fell for whacko cancer cure.
Link. California on the brain? These are stupid people.
Interstellar 1950s spaceship flies by Sol.
Link. “cigar shaped”. Fins not mentioned.
Simplenote Mac update rebooted
Link. Back to native. Long wait.
Scrivener 3 for macOS is out
Link. I’m on 2. Old school power and complexity
The Last of the Iron Lungs: “whole dark room just sounded like a big room full of chickens just cluck-cluck-clucking”
Link. Vaccines. Fall to your knees in gratitude.