Link. Especially brain. So much room for basic science research. My bet is that amyloid can be a physiologic response in aging neurons.
Monthly Archives: June 2021
“there are 15 different types of fish that can be called tuna by the F.D.A.”
Link.
“Unlike the 2017 collision of two neutron stars, telescopes were unable to spot any particles of light from the explosions. The black holes appear to have been big enough to swallow the neutron stars quickly.”
Link. All in gravity waves.
“Trump increasingly looks like President Richard M. Nixon, whose support eroded as more and more sordid information about his White House came to light.”
Link. He is fading. I don’t think it’s new information though. It’s boredom. Americans need new blood.
“Washington remains wired for the GOP”
Link. It must be the parties.
Command line recovery tools for macOS
Link. They run as root and many found in sbin.
“the upshot of that grand theory is that countries have to basically wait in line to get rich”
Link. Yikes. New idea and not a happy one.
“When China overhauled Hong Kong’s election system to purge candidates it deemed disloyal, Beijing called the change “perfecting Hong Kong’s electoral system.”
Link. DeSantis could write the history policies.
“On the right side, he simply wrote: 193,707,721 × 761,838,257,287. He spent the next hour performing the multiplication of these two numbers by hand”
Link. Before calculators, finding a Mersenne prime.
Orbit Will Publish Two-Volume Companion to Iain M. Banks’ Culture Series
Link. Delayed but still happening.
How Roth IRAs became a huge tax dodge for billionaires.
Link. So much corruption.
“Angela Gonzalez and her daughter Devon, 16, fell from their ninth floor condo to the fifth floor when the building snapped apart. Angela broke her pelvis yet somehow managed to get up from the tangled concrete and pull Devon with her.”
Link.
A response to Scott Alexander on Jewish achievement.
Link. Well done. Alexander appears to be making a case against reparations.
Infused CRISPR gene editing for transthyretin amyloidosis.
Link. Early results positive. Amazingly positive.
GOP mostly, some Dem: “faux bill notices and official-looking correspondence; bogus offers to match donations and hidden links to unsubscribe”
Link. “half of people in their 80s or older have either … cognitive impairment … or … dementia.”
A *lot* of businesses live off the bottom 15% of cognition. GOP certainly, but all businesses that advertise on daytime TV.
“Nearly every SARS case since the original epidemic has been due to lab leaks — six incidents in three countries, including twice in a single month from a lab in Beijing. In one instance, the mother of a lab worker died.”
Link. Regulation and oversight needed.
“White noncollege voters are almost three-fifths of white voters in suburban areas and they shifted against Trump by over 5 points.”
Link. Men primarily. Non-college whites are biggest voting block.
“Centralizing app distribution in the App Store makes it a magnet for fraud and scams, because it’s much easier to game the App Store than traditional marketing and distribution.”
Link. 100,000 apps a week. I’m guessing 99,900 are scams and Apple catches 95% of the scams.
“if you dig down deep enough in Windows 10, you’ll find elements that date from Windows 3”
Link. I swear I have seen them.
“success of Shortcuts on macOS will be largely determined by third-party app developers”
Link. Not encouraging.
Michael Yeadon: former Pfizer VP and wealthy anti-vaxxer
Link. Source of fears that RNA vaccine will impair fertility. He is broadly anti-vaccine and also a COVID denialist.
“My Book Live NAS owners are reporting that their drives have been totally erased”
Link. This will be educational.
“he likely lacked a chin. They say that his brain was about 7 percent larger than the average brain of a living human.”
Link. Another human vs Denisovan, coexisting with Neanderthal. “ The authors of the new studies argue that Dragon Man, the Tibetan jaw and the Dali skull all belong to a single lineage — one that is the closest branch to our own species.”
Remembering the Whole Earth Catalog.
Link. I have the Whole Earth Software Catalog. Saving it for a museum.
“undercover operation by conservatives to infiltrate progressive groups, political campaigns and the offices of Democratic as well as moderate Republican elected officials during the 2020 election cycle”
Link. These people need jobs.
CDC developing nootkatone insect repellent.
Link. If it works this would be a historic discovery.
Novavax is “the best COVID-19 vaccine we have.”
Link.
Don’t use Live Photos.
Link. Not worth it.
“by the time SARS-CoV-2 reached the market, it had been circulating for awhile in Wuhan or beyond”
Link.
No causal associations between childhood family income and subsequent psychiatric disorders, substance misuse and violent crime arrests.
Link. Points finger at genetic traits leading to both these disorders and poverty.
“Standing under a warm shower spray or soaking in a hot bathtub for 10 minutes or so after a sweltering workout prompts our bodies to continue acclimatizing”
Link. Yikes.
“most people with an addiction simply “grow out of it.”
Link. Cocaine average 4y
Blood Shortage in the U.S: “our hospitals are now asking for more than expected.””
Link. Catch-up surgeries, more road crashes.
Google Messages Adds End-to-End Encryption
Link. Michael links to Apple’s non-encryption. A concession to the FBI.
“She had fallen some 10,000 feet, nearly two miles. Her row of seats is thought to have landed in dense foliage, cushioning the impact. Juliane was the sole survivor of the crash.”
Link. What happened after.
“raising the height of a bumper by a foot doubles the amount of force that’s delivered into a person’s body during a crash”
Link. Pedestrians (and bicyclists) are being killed by fashion and distraction. Tax vehicles based on pedestrian risk scores.
Our Constitution doesn’t require a popular vote for president.
Link. Explains why GOP is moving to state legislators appointing electors. Why didn’t I read this earlier?
Hook’s Copy Link.
Link. It makes a lot of sense.
“what the BCA collected at the parking garage where Smith was killed: a Smith and Wesson M&P 380 handgun from the front driver side of the vehicle and six Blazer 380 Auto cartridge cases from the driver’s side”
Link. Lots of weapons and ammunition – per the authorities.
Apple Card Family has a few bugs.
Link. Let others do the testing. Waits for August.
ScreenCastsOnline: “Mac & iOS video tutorial services, SCO provides top quality video tutorials to Apple Mac and iOS users.”
Link.
Juneteenth intro from 2018.
Link. 2018 was decades ago.
“59,800 people did not vote for Trump despite voting for mostly GOP candidates down the ballot”
Link. Biden beat Trump because he was an acceptable alternative for many white non-college men who vote GOP.
“Of the 14 8,000-meter peaks, “six or seven,” Gildea said, are ripe for false summits”
Link. Not a scandal, but messy.
casirivimab and imdevimab combo works for bad COVID.
Link. Especially for immune deficient.
How to Get a ‘Select All’ Button for Webpages in iOS Safari
Link. Insane that we need this.
“Select a block of text: Double-tap and hold the first word in the block, then drag to the last word.”
Link. iOS is a toy.
“Shift-Command-D opens the Finder window to the desktop.”
Link. Oldness makes learning these a worthy challenge.
“sponsored by Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) and co-sponsored by Burgess Owens (R-UT), mandates API-driven data portability and interoperability”
Link. Thompson’s review is best so far. Apple brought this upon themselves.
Mac Site-Specific Browser for Google Docs
Link. This is an amazingly thorough review. Happy I subscribe. “combination of Coherence X and BrowserFairy” was his choice but I might go with simpler option.