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Wow, literal power bricks. Classic red bricks are porous and contain iron oxide…

Wow, literal power bricks.

Classic red bricks are porous and contain iron oxide, which a team in St. Louis has converted into a conductive material for use as a supercapacitor. They hooked up 2 bricks in an electrolyte solution to a AAA battery for a minute and were able to charge a white LED for 11 minutes afterward.

The density isn’t great, but you could use them for things like backup power and emergency lighting.

Turning Bricks Into Supercapacitors
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis made a fast energy storage device out of common building bricks

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Steve Bannon, shadenfreude

Steve Bannon and 3 others arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud & money laundering for skimming money from a border wall gofundme campaign. He was taken into custody while on a 150-foot yacht owned by his friend, a Chinese billionaire who is wanted by Beijing on fraud, bribery and blackmail charges.

TBH, that seems pretty much on-brand.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/stephen-bannon-arrested-charged/2020/08/20/6d46847c-e2ea-11ea-b69b-64f7b0477ed4_story.html

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Link: Sorting out Covid-19 “super-spreaders” and “super-spreading events”

Link: Sorting out Covid-19 “super-spreaders” and “super-spreading events”

COVID-19 “super-spreaders” and “super-spreading events”: The controversy

Evidence is emerging suggesting that COVID-19 does not spread equally. A minority of infected individuals seem to spread the virus easily to many people, while most infected individuals spread it to few others or no one at all, likely through a combination of circumstance, environment, and possibly biology. Why is this, and what does it mean for coronavirus containment strategies?

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Interesting article about how a burst of quick & cheap building in the 1950s of terraced balcony homes resulted – by accident – in a vertical mix of economic classes & vibrant urban life. “Behind the Accidentally Resilient Design of Athens Apartments”

Interesting article about how a burst of quick & cheap building in the 1950s of terraced balcony homes resulted – by accident – in a vertical mix of economic classes & vibrant urban life.

“Behind the Accidentally Resilient Design of Athens Apartments”

covid and asthma (+/-)

Good: Asthma alone doesn’t seem to increase your risk of Covid-19 hitting so bad you need to be hospitalized.

Bad: Other co-morbidities might.

Weird: Stress/exercise-induced asthma does seem to increase your risk of a severe case…but allergy-induced asthma doesn’t. In fact, some researchers are speculating that allergies might reduce ACE2 expression and actually *protect* from infection! (Don’t worry, I won’t rely on that even if it pans out.)

Does asthma increase Covid-19 risk? Emerging research suggests a complicated connection – STAT News

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Look, actual data on this coronavirus and actions taken, showing what people who study diseases have been telling you for months. “Now you can see the relationship between reopening policies and COVID-19 cases”

Look, actual data on this coronavirus and actions taken, showing what people who study diseases have been telling you for months.

“Now you can see the relationship between reopening policies and COVID-19 cases”

People who are riding out the pandemic in literal ghost towns. Park rangers and an …

People who are riding out the pandemic in literal ghost towns. Park rangers and an update on the guy who was going to stay for two weeks but got caught by a freak snowstorm and then the travel restrictions…and has decided to stay.

They Live Alone in Ghost Towns

There are thousands of abandoned hamlets in the U.S. Some people still live and vacation in them. Maybe you want to, too?

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Setting it as the wallpaper on Android phones caused them to break

Story about a landscape photo that went viral not just because it’s incredible, but because setting it as the wallpaper on Android phones caused them to break due to a bug in how the system handles color spaces.

‘How my photo ended up breaking Android phones’

Gaurav Agrawal, a scientist and amateur photographer living in San Diego, couldn’t believe it when he suddenly started seeing a photograph he took last summer popping up on the news.

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Ok, who had “Michael Moore pushes old and discredited fossil fuel talking points to attack environmentalists and build support for eugenics” on their 2020 bingo card?

Ok, who had “Michael Moore pushes old and discredited fossil fuel talking points to attack environmentalists and build support for eugenics” on their 2020 bingo card?
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/planet-humans-film-moore/

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