Some things I noticed 07/08/2020:
  1. To induce a lightning strike, researchers fire a rocket dragging a wire into an approaching electrical storm ?
  2. Is it possible to communicate six bits of information by the flip of a single coin?
  3. A giant flywheel in north-east Scotland could soon help to prevent blackouts by mimicking the effect of a power station but without using fossil fuels.
  4. cosmologists Karsten Jedamzik and Levon Pogosian argue that weak magnetic fields in the early universe would lead to the faster cosmic expansion rate seen today
    • “the Faraday technique will really take off when the next-generation radio telescope called the Square Kilometer Array, starts up in 2027”
  5. Fraunhofer HHI celebrates release of H.266; This new video coding standard reduces data by 50% of bit rate relative to H.265
    • “H.266/VVC was developed with ultra-high-resolution video in mind, new standard is particularly beneficial streaming 4K or 8K”
  6. Praise can be trumpeted as evidence that China is respected around the world, while criticism can be used to stoke nationalist defensiveness.
  7. I only see you when you’re walking. Walking to somewhere. You’re so restless. What can be over there? It must be special there.
  8. La vie en rose [et elle chante aussi. por supuesto.]
  9. Superorganism — Live on KEXP
  10. Origami Folding Door

Some things I noticed 06/29/2020:
  1. It’s the countries that contribute least to the problem that stand to lose the most from rapid climate change
  2. Our results contradict previous claims that chickens were domesticated in northern China and the Indus Valley
  3. The image that in cinema isn’t usually associated with the kind of visceral satisfaction of a kiss but it could be and it should be. It’s not girl gets boy, it’s girl gets book.
    • “Writing doesn’t confer importance it reflects it.” “I don’t think so. Writing them will make them more important.” — Greta Gerwig, Little Women
  4. There you have it, converting binary to decimal. How hard could it possibly be?” ?
  5. The look on your competitor’s face with an expensive AR when he finds out that he have been outshot by a $2 shit-shovel… priceless!
  6. if TikTok is active on your phone while you work, the app can basically read anything and everything you copy on another device
  7. “Rolling Rhino — Convert Ubuntu into a ‘rolling release’ that tracks the devel series
  8. the higher we build, the harder to see
  9. Noah 2014 — Creation Sequence

Some things I noticed 04/29/2020:
  1. “Proclivi scriptioni praestat ardua”— the more difficult reading is preferable to the easier one
  2. Elementary, my dear Watson. (or colloq. “No sh*t, Sherlock.”)
  3. ‘Tis folly to look solely at facticity and not transcendence. First steps never firm.
  4. This is one of those fundamental protocol pieces that you need to start building terahertz networks.
  5. you don’t actually need to have a particularly competent or functional government to do terrible things
  6. Could have been better argued if both took turns gathering thoughts, but alas, social media is a mud pit (easily distracted by aliens).
  7. “I know it’s hard, but when you’re done with it, you’re gonna be the one who did it
  8. She’s a casualty just as much as anyone else who has died.
  9. 素晴らしいです。ファンになりました。
  10. Hintayan ng Langit
  11. Inang Wika