quote [ Have you ever sat down and thought ?I wonder if a trebuchet could launch a projectile at supersonic speeds?? Neither have we. That?s what separates [David Eade] from the rest of u? ]

quote [ 5. We?ll know more soon. ]

quote [ The project described in this paper resulted in a complete ecosystem of open-source resources (figure 1) that can be used to implement near-infrared spectroscopy in any plastic waste management setting, especially in low and middle-income countries. ]

quote [ ?Twenty floors high in wood? In Skellefteå?? Thanks to three teams of structural engineers, and the region?s prefabrication expertise, the timber tower now stands as a blueprint for a new generation of ?plyscrapers?. ]

quote [ Can a person?s experiences on earth alter how they perceive the stars? Lauren Collee peers through the telescope of Anton Pannekoek, the Dutch astronomer whose politics informed his human approach to studying the cosmos. ]

quote [ The Peaucellier?Lipkin linkage (or Peaucellier?Lipkin cell, or Peaucellier?Lipkin inversor), invented in 1864, was the first true planar straight line mechanism ? the first planar linkage capable of transforming rotary motion into perfect straight-line motion, and vice versa. It is named after Charles-Nicolas Peaucellier (1832?1913), a French army officer, and Yom Tov Lipman Lipkin (1846?1876), a Lithuanian Jew and son of the famed Rabbi Israel Salanter. ]

quote [ Given the incessant use of ?sexy? in online discussion about the iPhone, and mindful of Rule 34 of the internet ? ?If it exists, there is porn of it? ? I had assumed some explicitly sexual relationship to the technology would exist.
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?Ultimately it?s not that you desire the phone but that you fantasise the phone desires you.? ]

quote [ this ad was spotted by a most curious brand of headhunter, who e-mailed me with a specific inquiry: ?How are you with academic writing??

I immediately concluded that this was code for ?Can you write papers for people?? And in a phone call that night, I learned that it was. ]

quote [ Scientists can now borrow the bodies of one fish species to produce another?whether they should, though, is an open question. ]

quote [ it appears it's more than "older devices" that have tripped up and stopped working as expected ? such as refusing to establish secure connections to remote systems ? and that may be due to an issue with the now-expired R3 intermediate, or because your client doesn't recognize the ISRG root cert. ]