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” As a matter of fact, political obfuscation has tended to use many words rather than few, long words rather than short, to extend rather than to reduce. Every leader of inadequate…

Sorry about the podcast link, the gist is that Ukraine now can build drones from cardboard, controlled from Kiev, London etc. that can destroy Russian tanks. https://www.ft.com/con…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdygrcFcyyY Jon Stewart & John Oliver Welcome America to Its Trump Monarchy Era | The Daily Show

I've built one with Lego. https://www.lijf.org/chess/DSCF1392.jpeg > https://www.lijf.org/chess/DSCF2887.jpeg >

Alternative link: https://archive.is/ghEGf

LAMP = 'Loop-mediated Amplification, which allows detection of small amounts of viral RNA from oral/nasal swabs even in an early stage of the infection.' (definition from the linke…

https://gossipsweb.net/ ? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26446516

Part of this comment made me think of Albert Hirschman's 'Exit, Voice, and Loyalty' [1] - at least as I have understood the argument, comparing the 'standby passive observer' to th…

No, not just you, I’ve had the same problem, and I have youtube premium. Though it’s not consistent, sometimes it works, which makes me think that it might be related to some choic…

I actually arrived in New Zealand with mud under my walking boots once - we had been trecking on Rarotonga, Cook Islands the day before, and I had not read the customs rules for NZ…

A simple one page frontend to The Sounds of Spotify - for music discovery. As stated in the 'About': "Some summers ago I discovered the user The Sounds of Spotify and as I was scro…

You are of course right about the cost and accessibility, low field not necessitating specific rooms or ‘no go’ zones, and presumably easy operation (controlled via iPad app) being…

Being a neuroradiologist (at Karolinska in Stockholm, Sweden) I really love the idea of this and almost can’t wait to start doing comparative studies to find how sensitive it reall…

https://xkcd.com/1425/