Link. Natural opponents. I enjoyed Tegmark’s book.
Monthly Archives: August 2021
“political patterns in America look much like those Orbán used to gather power into his own hands”
Link. Meanwhile American journalists want desperately to believe the GOP is a sane political party.
“The cutting-edge system was in use, searching for signs of the couple in Mexico, but it does not appear to be what led authorities to them.”
Link. It was the reward money. The “community group” supporting them isn’t the brightest bunch.
Details on the ISS spin.
Link. Feels understated.
“Apple’s App Tracking Transparency neither stops tracking, nor provides any real transparency, and instead gives users a false sense of privacy.”
Link. As expected.
Lindsey Graham exposed much of Senate to COVID.
Link. Hope they are all vaccinated.
“They then took this mirror-world polymerase enzyme and used it to make mirror-world DNA sequences.”
Link. Nanotech toolkit expands.
A third of white-tailed deer tested in a survey were exposed to the coronavirus.
Link. Probably through another animal vector. It’s a very cool virus.
QR codes are the cookies of the material world.
Link. Same tracking and profiling.
Irritable bowel syndrome update.
Link. I suspect many different interacting causes including neurology of the bowel. It’s not one disease.
“The number of college graduates in China rose by 73 percent in the past decade.”
Link. Too many knowledge workers, not enough knowledge work drives China’s culture of extreme competition.
Trump’s attack on federal science has left wounded agencies.
Link. The war isn’t over. The GOP is virulently anti-science now.
“Big Sur’s updates have become inefficient to the point of absurdity.”
Link.