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“neglecting to tell the bees could lead to various misfortunes, including their death or departure, or a failure to make honey.”
Link. “… Royal beekeeper had informed Queen Elizabeth II’s bees of her death”
“already decided she would terminate the pregnancy if the diagnosis of Down syndrome was confirmed, though she would have to travel outside Ohio to do so”
Link. Lots of GOP voters abort Downs fetus.
“as the Ukrainian Army advanced, the soldiers seemed surprised, she said, as they had made no special preparations either for defense or retreat”
Link. They were just controlling the locals.
Oil industry climate talk shockingly insincere.
Link. Remember when big tobacco sponsored women’s tennis? Kind of like that.
Sweden’s fascist side.
Link. MSGA.
NYT article shows how to report a lie: “The Russian government has dismissed witness accounts, photographs, videos and other evidence of atrocities by its soldiers in Bucha”
Link. Now do this for DeSantis lies.
What is “manliness” in 2022?
Link. Basically unchanged over the at least the past 80 years. Except no longer defined by anatomy.
“Concerned that sharing their operational plans could highlight weaknesses and discourage continued American support, the Ukrainians were closely guarding their operational plans.“
Link. This seems thoughtful and as legit as war reporting can be.
“The easiest way to understand what the CMRA portal does is to prowl around on its site. I cannot recommend that highly enough”. Fed climate site.
Link.
TKTL1 single amino acid sub mutation caused frontal lobe proliferation within past few 100K years.
Link. One of 96 human/neand mutations. 150K y ago something big happened to humans. TKTL1 may play role in glioma. Expect studies of TKTL1 in cognitive disability.
Long term high dose anabolic androgen use may be bad for the brain.
Link. Paywalled, but one review claims a dose-response curve with cortical thickness. MRI and cognitive testing. Correlation, not causation (non-random use). Mechanism unclear. Dosages much higher than androgen replacement of course.
MN quack and GOP gov cand Jensen: “Abortion is divisive … let’s focus on the issues that matter.”
Link. Now trailing Gov Waltz by 20 points. GOP likely to abandon him.
“Speech is not violence, and to argue so is to imply that violence is an appropriate response…The United States is living through the largest wave of state censorship since the second Red Scare.”
Link. Mostly GOP.
Pinochet’s economic policy is vastly overrated.
Link. “There was a dictator in recent history who slaughtered thousands of his own people, but who liberalized his country’s economy, privatizing state-owned enterprises, dropping price controls…”
Singapore: still not a democracy.
Link. A test of how much freedom people truly want.
‘London Bridge is down’: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death
Link. Not new but neat history.
AirPods Pro 2
Link. Same price, better performance.
“In the weeks since President Biden signed a comprehensive climate bill devised to spur investment in electric cars and clean energy, corporations have announced a series of big-ticket projects”
Link. Biden delivers. Old but wise and effective.
NYT: “The Murdochs: Empire of Influence,” which will be broadcast on CNN this month.”
Link. Surprised CNN agreed to this. I suspect they will back out.
Xi’s great leap for COVID is a lot like Mao’s leap.
Link. He hates science. Most tyrants do.
Separating tape from backing: techniques.
Link. Mine had dried too much. 30sec in microwave warmed glue do I could get backing off.
“Over the ensuing months, Abbott prevailed in court, the poisoning of a newborn baby went largely unnoticed …
Link. Until 2022. The “restraining order” ploy was pure Jones Day evil.
“new synthetic microbiome can even withstand aggressive pathogens and cause mice to develop a healthy immune system”
Link. To understand, first make it.
“the iPhone has gone from being a product that is designed in California and made in China to one that is a creation of both countries.”
Link. A factor in Apple’s share price
“… Cannon felt obliged to reassure MAGA Republicans that Trump is being treated fairly, rather than the rest of us that the rule of law is being protected…”
Link. “Once you have the courts you can pretty much do whatever you want.”
“an AI model can create a Greg Rutkowski lookalike in moments, while a real Greg Rutkowski probably takes many hours of work”
Link. Must read. The tectonic plates are shifting. Could be just a Richter 8, could be new world.
“More than three dozen Republican members of Congress chose to retire rather than sacrifice their consciences, or face the same fate as Sanford.”
Link. There was a GOP resistance, but Trump crushed it. McConnell is truly more evil that Trump.
Machine Learning for identifying proteins based on tissue derived fragments.
Link. Proteonomics age.
Claude Shannon’s Concept of Entropy Quantifies.
Link. Minimum number of Y/N questions needed to answer a question.
“Moderna itself is being sued by at least two other companies who claim that their own cationic lipid IP is being infringed… NIH is in fact also suing Moderna…”
Link. Normal pharma business. Great for lawyers.
“Any appeal would be heard by the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta, where Mr. Trump appointed six of its 11 active judges.”
Link. The loyalty of Trump’s judges will be tested.
“CR2032 batteries with bitterant coatings might not work with AirTag or other battery-powered products, depending on the alignment of the coating in relation to the battery contacts.”
Link. Avoid Duracell.
“if you wanted to build a refrigerator you would create custom refrigerator controller hardware and embedded software. Today, you just grab some standard microcontroller off the shelf and write a software application for it. And that microcontroller alrea
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“the rhetoric on the Kiwifarms site and specific, targeted threats have escalated over the last 48 hours to the point that we believe there is an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life unlike we have previously seen from Kiwifarms or a
Link. Considered decision.
Apple Studio display: “Thankfully, I’ve not been getting this buzzing, but I’ve had problems with the display’s camera, audio, and USB.”
Link. Other than that Mrs Lincoln…
“floppy disks—along with other dated tech like CDs and MiniDiscs —are still required for around 1,900 government procedures.”
Link. This has got to be culture.
I Have Nothing to Hide: contemplating the end of the personal life.
Link. The vast majority of human life was lived with no expectation of privacy at all. It’s a fragile thing.
Living with the potential Nazi: “And the best thing you can do – maybe the only thing you can do – is to stay in these people’s lives if you can, if it’s safe. As a living refutation of all that nonsense.”
Link. A small minority of humans are naturally Nazi, but a majority are capable of Nazi. Basically, humans are horrible. But capable is not inevitable.
“… Russian economy performed during the Boris Yeltsin years. … worse than America’s decline during the worst of the Great Depression”
Link. I read newspapers then and had no idea.
“Getting a Kindle Kids was a huge mistake. Do not buy this product for your children or grandchildren.”
Link. Damn.
SMS antispam: Truecaller freemium or $30/y.
Link. I never heard of it. Our advertising infrastructure is broken.
Mints utility provides user info on macos malware.
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WaPo suffers a Trump deficit.
Link. We will never be rid of him.
Paxlovid valuable for over 65 and probably unvaccinated 50-65.
Link. Vaccinated under 65 do so well it’s hard to measure improvement.
“a lost arm of the Nile once cut through this stretch of desert, and would have greatly simplified transporting the giant slabs to the pyramid complex”
Link. Expected but good to confirm.
“Twice a day, he replaces the depleted lithium-ion batteries in his sky-blue Piaggio electric rickshaw with fully charged ones at swapping stations around New Delhi”
Link. Cheaper than gas. Science can save us.
Autism in South Korea.
Link. We know very little.
“The areas of the brain traditionally attributed to language have lots of other functions”
Link. A neuroscience of language update by a science writer missing her left temporal lobe.
“humpback songs easily spread from one population to another across the Pacific Ocean. It can take just a couple of years for a song to move several thousand miles.”
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