Link. Fight Nunes every chance you get.
Daily Archives: December 22, 2019
[toread] Private Wojtek: Poland’s WW II warrior bear.
Link. A survivor.
Kalyazin Bell Tower
Link. Stalin’s dam submerged all but the now scenic bell tower.
“DarkMatter, an Abu Dhabi-based cyberintelligence and hacking firm where Emirati intelligence officials, former National Security Agency employees and former Israeli military intelligence operatives work”
Link. Retire from NSA and become an extremely well paid mercenary.
The five most promising ways to quantize gravity
Link. The last two seem most interesting
How do black holes destroy information and why is that a problem?
Link. “The problem of black hole “information loss” really has nothing to do with just exactly what you mean by information”
“Hey Siri, show me my passwords”
Link. Shortcut to Settings:Passwords & Accounts:Website & App Passwords.
Head of China research integrity effort likely a scammer.
Link. Maybe we should assign positions of power by random lottery
Aducanumab for Alzheimers is probably junk.
Link. The demand is extreme.
NotPetya fallout: Merck vs Insurers.
Link. Funny – recovery businesses as de facto accomplices
Hans Rosling died 2 years ago and I didn’t know.
Link. Weird what gets missed. Maybe I was traveling? He was ill much of his later life, though the pancreatic cancer was presumably unrelated to his Hep C cirrhosis and liver failure.
“Brain boost” supplements may contain high doses of piracetam.
Link. Or none, labels inaccurate. Not much hope for reform.
“Higher education is in the midst of an enrollment crisis, with declining birth rates and other factors contributing to fewer high school graduates attending American colleges and universities. “
Link. WHAT other factors?
Russia’sc“Unit 29155 — had for years been assigned to carry out killings and political disruption campaigns in Europe”
Link. McConnell is fine with Trump’s fealty to Putin.
“The F.A.A. is aware of more potentially damaging messages from Boeing employees that the company has not turned over to the agency”
Link. Hidden deep in the Boeing article
“clean re-installing macOS is a fragile process which can fail, and must be carried out to the letter”
Link. Vista. Do not install.
Pan-American Highway: 30,000 Miles on a Motorcycle
Link. Relatively recent gap closure c