What Trump and John Bolton Don’t Understand About Nuclear War
Fifty-six years ago today, on Black Saturday, the world was nearly destroyed in the Cuban missile crisis.
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The Sun Set Off 4,000 Sea Mines During the Vietnam War
The Sun Set Off 4,000 Sea Mines During the Vietnam War
That Domain You Forgot to Renew? Yeah, it’s Now Stealing Credit Cards
Cool: LED-based indoor farming that optimizes the lighting hours and wavelengths for each crop.
Cool: LED-based indoor farming that optimizes the lighting hours and wavelengths for each crop.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/high-tech-farmers-are-using-led-lights-in-ways-that-seem-to-border-on-science-fiction/2018/11/06/d965021a-e15b-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_graphic.html
Mozilla has released a new version of their “Privacy Not Included” review of smart devices, …
Mozilla has released a new version of their “Privacy Not Included” review of smart devices, with an added “creep-o-meter” for just how creepy readers rate them.
Four big-picture principles for making our democracy work better
Four big-picture principles for making our democracy work better
spiders, creepy (re-post since I realized I probably should’ve CWed it)
Link: The Hair Sprouting From This Building Is Actually Thousands of Tiny Legs https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-do-daddy-longlegs-cluster-together
“If you’re tempted to not vote because of the vitriol or the imperfect nature of the choices, then you’re supporting a downward cycle, in which the candidate who best suppresses voter turnout of the opponent’s backers wins.”
“If you’re tempted to not vote because of the vitriol or the imperfect nature of the choices, then you’re supporting a downward cycle, in which the candidate who best suppresses voter turnout of the opponent’s backers wins.”
Found a reference to Web Intents on an old post and thought, “Whatever happened to …
Found a reference to Web Intents on an old post and thought, “Whatever happened to those?”
First page of search results turns up: What happened to web intents?
WTF? “Antarctica scientist allegedly stabs colleague for spoiling the endings of books”
Antarctica scientist allegedly stabs colleague for spoiling the endings of books
A Russian scientist working in Antarctica is facing attempted murder charges after allegedly stabbing a colleague for telling him the endings of books he wanted to read.Sergey Savitsky, an engineer, is accused of stabbing welder Oleg Beloguzov in the chest, the Sun reports.
The Vortex is a user-behavior pattern that begins with a single intentional interaction…
“The Vortex is a user-behavior pattern that begins with a single intentional interaction followed by a series of unplanned interactions. This unplanned chain of interactions creates a sense of being “pulled” deeper into the digital space, making the user feel out of control.”
“It’s worth picking a philosophy that’s self correcting.” Yep:
Given the amount of energy this stuff uses, I’m not convinced.
Given the amount of energy this stuff uses, I’m not convinced.
“Add Climate Change to the List of Things Blockchain Is Supposed to Solve” 🙄
Link: How Writers Map Their Imaginary Worlds
The urge to share news of our lives is neither new nor narcissistic
The urge to share news of our lives is neither new nor narcissistic
I’m still fond of this comic strip
@kemonine I’m still fond of this comic strip: World’s Most Elusive Human Being
Gotta do something with them, I suppose: a 5-meter dome made entirely out of bicycle wheels…
Gotta do something with them, I suppose: a 5-meter dome made entirely out of bicycle wheels in Whitehorse, Yukon. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bicycle-wheel-dome
Link: Biosphere 2: A Once Troubled Social Experiment is Transformed
Biosphere 2: A Once Troubled Social Experiment is Transformed
That means researchers from the Global Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada don’t have to worry about harming the environment while studying how plants in the tiny rainforest adjust their water consumption.
Cool collection of then-and-now space images. #space
Cool collection of then-and-now space images. https://www.planetary.org/articles/nasa-60-years
LIDAR survey reveals ancient Maya civilization had much bigger cities than we once thought.
LIDAR survey reveals ancient Maya civilization had much bigger cities than we once thought.
This major discovery upends long-held theories about the Maya civilization
In the autumn of 1929, Anne Morrow Lindbergh and her husband Charles flew across the Yucatán Peninsula. With Charles at the controls, Anne snapped photographs of the jungles just below. She wrote in her journal of Maya structures obscured by large humps of vegetation.