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Monday Links from Tier ? Where ?>3 vol. DLXXV

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    Monday Links from Tier ? Where ?>3 vol. DLXXV

    Doesn't eleven years just fly by when you spend it all reading this kind of thing on the Internet?
    • Journey to the Center of the Earth - ”For nearly half a century, legends of a giant cave in the Andes—holding artifacts that could rewrite human history—have beckoned adventurers and tantalized fans of the occult. Now the daughter of a legendary explorer is on a new kind of quest: to tell the truth about the cave in order to save it.” Neil Armstrong - yes, that one - is seen here on an expedition to the cave in 1975.


    • 2020 In Review - Quanta Magazine's best-of collection, allowing you to find the ones I didn't post here

    • Snapshots in the Life of a Criminal Data Analyst - Brian Selfon works for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, following the money: ”Say the words ‘major New York heroin distributor,’ and people get excited. Listen to a major New York heroin distributor, and you realize that most of most days, he’s stuck in traffic… No one will make a movie about G. He’s just huffing along, driving from A to B and back again. Taking tulip from his buyers, taking tulip from his suppliers. Trading tulip with his wife, and then trying to convince his bank that he’s a repairperson.”

    • Computerworld Archives: Back From Vintage Microfilm - Lots of old computer news: ”This collection of Computerworld microfilm represents nearly half a century of reporting on major technology trends, from mainframes and minicomputers to iPhones, tablets and Artificial Intelligence.”

    • Icographic - Speaking of archives, Icographic was a journal devoted to visual communication design published between 1971 and 1978, and its complete archive is here


    • Here's How the Ashes of Star Treks Original Scotty Got Smuggled Aboard the International Space Station - Boldly, if surreptitiously, going: ”Some of the ashes of James Doohan, Star Trek’s original Scotty, now live on board of the International Space Station. They’ve been there since 2008, and until now it’s been a secret.”

    • John Wheeler’s H-bomb blues - ”There may never be a good time to lose a secret, but some secrets are worse than others to lose, and some times are worse than others to lose them. For US physicist John Archibald Wheeler, January 1953 may have been the absolute worst time to lose the particular secret he lost. The nation was in a fever pitch about Communists, atomic spies, McCarthyism, the House Un-American Activities Committee, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and the Korean War. And what Wheeler lost, under the most suspicious and improbable circumstances, was nothing less than the secret of the hydrogen bomb, a weapon of unimaginable power that had first been tested only a month before.” Unfortunate

    • New Views of Quantum Jumps Challenge Core Tenets of Physics - ”One of the most basic processes in all of nature—a subatomic particle’s transition between discrete energy states—is surprisingly complex and sometimes predictable, recent work shows.” Only in quantum physics does finding that something is predictable come as a surprise

    • Why Chimpanzees Don’t Hold Elections: The Power of Social Reality - An extract from a new book by Lisa Feldman Barrett: ”Nothing in physics or chemistry determines that you’re leaving the United States and entering Canada, or that an expanse of water has certain fishing rights, or that a specific arc of the Earth’s orbit around the sun is called January… Humans are the only animals on this planet who can simply make things up, agree on them as a group, and they become real.”

    • Была ли колбаса в СССР? - Which, for those of us still struggling to learn Russian, is “Was there sausage in the USSR?” (that’s the Google Translate version of the page). The answer is, of course, yes; yes, there was sausage: ”As always, the liberals first of all have a fairy tale about a sausage shortage. They say it was difficult to buy - the lines were large and the assortment was small. The range was really not as wide as it is now… Liberators do not know that 120 types of Soviet sausages were produced during Stalin's time. And we must thank the legendary People's Commissar Anastas Mikoyan for this.” As well as being informative about the provision of sausage to the workers under Stalin, this article also has excellent scans from a sausage catalogue of the time



    Happy invoicing!

    #2
    The engines canna take it Captain.
    When the fun stops, STOP.

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      #3
      Quantum physics one very interesting. I think I need to read it a couple of more times to make sure I understand it.

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        #4
        It'll be different every time you read it though

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          #5
          Quantum Biology is where it's at baby... https://royalsocietypublishing.org/d...0to%20which%20

          (Interesting to note that the 1st book on quantum biology was published in 1932!)
          "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
          - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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