4,000- year old Babylonian tablets turn out to be recipes for stew. And apparently they’re pretty good
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An interesting article on the floating farms of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City)
An interesting article on the floating farms of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City).
Link: Secretive energy startup backed by Bill Gates achieves solar breakthrough
Link: Secretive energy startup backed by Bill Gates achieves solar breakthrough
Link: What America Lost When It Lost the Bison
Link: How the Dumb Design of a WWII Plane Led to the Macintosh
Link: How the Dumb Design of a WWII Plane Led to the Macintosh
The reason why all those pilots were crashing when their B-17s were easing into a landing was that the flaps and landing gear controls looked exactly the same.
The investigation led to the paradigm of user-friendly design.
Link: Bureaucrats aren’t joining the ‘resistance.’ They’re doing their jobs.
Link: Bureaucrats aren’t joining the ‘resistance.’ They’re doing their jobs.
Even if you believe in the power of the “invisible hand,” it requires more choices than we have under today’s monopolies and oligopolies. Link: The U.S. Only Pretends to Have Free Markets
Even if you believe in the power of the “invisible hand,” it requires more choices than we have under today’s monopolies and oligopolies.
Oh, I bet this is causing a lot of awkward situations. :blob_dizzy_face:
Oh, I bet this is causing a lot of awkward situations. :blob_dizzy_face:
“A ton of people received text messages overnight that were originally sent on Valentine’s Day”
Link: US green economy’s growth dwarfs the fossil fuel industry’s
Link: US green economy’s growth dwarfs the fossil fuel industry’s https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/us-green-economys-growth-dwarfs-the-fossil-fuel-industrys/
Link: Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Chooses Encryption Over Backdoors
Link: Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Chooses Encryption Over Backdoors
“New Alternative To Bitcoin Uses Negligible Energy” Gee, I certainly hope so!
Gotta love this headline: “Plague of purple sea urchins ravages California’s offshore ecosystem, heads to Oregon”
Gotta love this headline:
“Plague of purple sea urchins ravages California’s offshore ecosystem, heads to Oregon”
Link: The Tomorrowland Promise
The Tomorrowland Promise: when we imagined that a future with automation would make our lives better, allowing us to value each other as *humans* instead of solely for our ability to be useful to someone else.
via @AtomicJunkShop
Link: UCI team uses machine learning to help tell which wildfires will burn out of …
Perspective on #LOST: An art film disguised as a science fiction TV show
Perspective on #LOST: An art film disguised as a science fiction TV show
https://www.comicsbeat.com/lost-week-an-art-film-disguised-as-a-science-fiction-tv-show/
Link: Protect Your Library the Medieval Way, With Horrifying Book Curses
Link: Baby Alaskan Fur Seals Are Thriving Atop a Bubbling Undersea Volcano
Link: Baby Alaskan Fur Seals Are Thriving Atop a Bubbling Undersea Volcano
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/alaskan-seal-pups-active-volcano
Link: 23 States Sue Trump Administration to Keep California’s Auto Emission Rules
Trees that survived the one-two punch of drought and bark beetles turn out to have …
Trees that survived the one-two punch of drought and bark beetles turn out to have been more water-efficient than those that didn’t, suggesting that at least some species can adapt to the longer droughts anticipated in the future. There’s thoughts of deliberately replanting with seeds from these trees to help it along.
Link: These Trees Survived California’s Drought and That’s Giving Scientists Hope for Climate Change
Article from IEEE Spectrum on large scale energy storage methods and the price point needed …
Article from IEEE Spectrum on large scale energy storage methods and the price point needed for utilities to switch to 100% renewables.