Wednesday, 15 January 2025
quote [ 'It probably would've ripped me in half' ]
I call meteorites to strike the lands
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Sunday, 5 January 2025
quote [ You want to get some thoughts out on the internet in a convenient and slick way while also following the gibberish of others? Instead of signing up at a closed and/or regulated microblogging platform, getting your status updates out with twtxt is as easy as putting them in a publicly accessible text file. ]
A simple, log-like (think RSS as CSV) format from 2016 that allows follows and replies turned into a self-hostable platform in 2020. Link goes to a syndication pod of the main dev, quote via docs. You can set up a simple text file, if I get this right, or run a pod yourself.
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Saturday, 4 January 2025
quote [ If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it? ]
We're dreams in cold storage
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Wednesday, 1 January 2025
quote [ A scientist's quest for mysterious sources of underground oxygen may offer clues about the origins of life. ]
There's no love oxygen
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Tuesday, 17 December 2024
quote [ A study warned that people were being exposed to a toxic chemical from kitchen utensils. But the researchers misstated the safe daily limit ]
Stuck in the elastics
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Thursday, 12 December 2024
quote [ improvisational science ]
This is from a podcast series by two bioinformatics people on the creative "night science" aspects of research work. The podcast is a little chatty, but the actual paper is subcscriber-only.
Gist: groups from 3 people might be less creative than just 2 people conversing.
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Sunday, 8 December 2024
quote [ Scientists and companies increasingly support blocking some sunlight to avoid the worst impacts of global warming. ]
Geo-engineering I'm making those cloudy days
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Friday, 6 December 2024
quote [ The crusade against bright headlights has picked up speed in recent years, in large part due to a couple of Reddit nerds. Could they know what?s best for the auto industry better than the auto industry itself? ]
Count the headlights on the highway
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Monday, 2 December 2024
quote [ Alexandre Grothendieck, who is considered one of the founders of modern algebraic geometry, left a considerable mark on mathematics through his genius and his reflections on his time. Ten years after his death, the mathematician Leila Schneps revisits his legacy. ]
Interesting interview about a clever French person.
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Monday, 25 November 2024
quote [ At nearly three million years old, the exoplanet is about the age of a two-week-old baby in planet-years ]
Lowering her landing gear on exoplanet 983
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