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Ever since the signing of an armistice in 1953 that put a stop to the fighting in the Korean War, North Korea and its activities has more or less been a mystery to the world. What little is known about the country is inherently grim: the county is internationally considered to be one of the worst…

Jun 8, 2021

Advice for Young Scientists—and Curious People in General

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The Nobel Prize-winning biologist Peter Medawar (1915–1987) is best known for work that made the first organ transplants and skin grafts possible. Medawar was also a lively, witty writer who penned numerous books on science and philosophy. In 1979, he published Advice to a Young Scientist, a book…

Jun 7, 2021

Somewhere Under My Left Ribs: A Nurse’s Story

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Christie Watson | Excerpt from The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story | Tim Duggan Books | May 2018 | 17 minutes (4,508 words) I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar The landscape of theaters must be terrifying for patients,…

Jun 7, 2021

Gruen Pink Gold Vintage Pocket Watch Restoration

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I picked up this Gruen pink gold pocket watch from eBay, and it wasn't running consistently. My hope was that it just needed a good service to get running again, join me for this video to find out if that was it or if this is one of those rabbit hole projects :) Support Wristwatch Revival via…

Jun 7, 2021

Putting Microchips in Vaccines Is a Terrible Idea, When You Think About It

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I got my first COVID-19 vaccine recently. The whole experience was tremendously routine: I showed my registration, stood in a waiting area, saw a nurse, got the jab, waited 15 minutes in case of an adverse reaction, and left. Oh, and I got a button. The waiting period, of course, was when it…

Jun 7, 2021

Adam Ruins Everything - Why You Should Tell Coworkers Your Salary

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Adam reveals the real reason your boss doesn't want you sharing your salary. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/truTVSubscribe Watch Full Episodes for FREE: http://bit.ly/1Rw2yzp In Adam Ruins Everything, host Adam Conover employs a combination of comedy, history and science to dispel widespread…

Jun 2, 2021

The Body’s Most Embarrassing Organ Is an Evolutionary Marvel

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Arne Svenson, Stray #55 To peer into the soul of a sea cucumber, don’t look to its face; it doesn’t have one. Gently turn that blobby body around, and gaze deep into its marvelous, multifunctional anus. The sea cucumber's posterior is so much more than an exit hole for digestive waste. It is also a…

May 27, 2021

Voyager: Inside the world's greatest space mission

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Voyager: Inside the world's greatest space mission 4 July 2020 Richard HollinghamFeatures correspondent Science Photo Library In 1977, two spacecraft started a mission that has redefined our knowledge of the Solar System – and will soon become our ambassadors on a journey into the unknown. BBC…

May 25, 2021

I Have a Lot to Say About Signal’s Cellebrite Hack

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This blog post is based off of a talk I gave on May 12, 2021 at the Stanford Computer Science Department’s weekly lunch talk series on computer security topics. Full disclosure: I’ve done some consulting work for Signal, albeit not on anything like this issue. (I kinda doubt they’ll hire me again if…

May 25, 2021

Rechtsextreme Netzwerke in Deutschland: Ein deutscher Soldat

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A m Abend des 3. Februar 2017 nehmen Polizist*innen im Flughafen Wien-Schwechat einen deutschen Staatsbürger fest. Er hat versucht, eine Pistole aus einem Versteck in einem Behinderten-WC zu holen. Dort hatte er sie zwei Wochen zuvor deponiert. Eine Putzkraft entdeckte die Waffe jedoch, und die…

May 24, 2021

A Teenager's Guide to Avoiding Actual Work

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Man vs. machine was the theme of the 1982 movie, Tron. In the summer of 1982, just months before I would go off to college, my mother took me aside and told me, “Your father wants you to get a job this summer, to pay for your living expenses at school.” I was 18 and had yet to hold any kind of job,…

May 24, 2021

Beatmungs-WGs: Das Milliardengeschäft mit Patienten in der Intensivpflege

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Hubert Kretz, pensionierter Chemiker mit Doktortitel, schwebt in einem Zustand zwischen Leben und Tod. Er liegt fast reglos da. Ab und an flattert das Lid an seinem rechten Auge. Er atmet ruhig und regelmäßig – ohne Kanüle im Hals. Sein Sohn Daniel, ein schmaler Mann, 33 Jahre, steht neben ihm in…

May 24, 2021

The feminisation of street names: useful debate or a political artifice?

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Home ^> 11 march 2020•1549 words, 7 min. read By Pierre-Nicolas Schwab On 5 March 2020, the Secretary of State for Economic Transition in Brussels, Barbara Trachte, published on her LinkedIn account an interactive map of the street names of the Belgian capital. The data reveals that only 6.1% of the…

May 21, 2021

Embrace the Grind - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

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Embrace the Grind There’s this card trick I saw that I still think about all the time. It’s a simple presentation (which I’ve further simplified here for clarity): a volunteer chooses a card and seals the card in an envelope. Then, the magician invites the volunteer to choose some tea. There are…

May 15, 2021

Millions Are Saying No to the Vaccines. What Are They Thinking?

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Updated at 10:07 a.m. ET on May 4, 2021. Several days ago, the mega-popular podcast host Joe Rogan advised his young listeners to skip the COVID-19 vaccine. “I think you should get vaccinated if you’re vulnerable,” Rogan said. “But if you’re 21 years old, and you say to me, ‘Should I get…

May 15, 2021

A Ship Got Stuck. So He Built A Website.

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Welcome to Galaxy Brain — a newsletter from Charlie Warzel about technology and culture. You can read what this is all about here. If you like what you see, consider forwarding it to a friend or two. You can also click the button below to subscribe. And if you’ve been reading, consider going to the…

May 12, 2021

The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken

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To start comparing quotes and simplify insurance-buying check out Policygenius: https://policygenius.com/johnnyharris Thanks to Policygenius for sponsoring this video! Check out Rashiq's interactive map of McDonalds Ice cream machines: https://mcbroken.com/ - ways to support - My Patreon:…

May 12, 2021

On God, or something, or anything? How Ayahuasca changed my perspective on life

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On God, or something, or anything How a journey to Peru changed my perspective 36 min read· May 2, 2021 -- Pachamama, a goddess revered by the indigenous peoples of the Andes (credit) Have you ever had that strange feeling where you momentarily tune out of your usual, everyday perspective, and…

May 11, 2021

ROBIN HOBB - Robin Hobb's Infrequent and Off Topic Blog

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The animal is aging. Not surprising; I knew it would happen eventually, but I didn't make any provisions to deal with that eventuality. Somehow the reality crept up on me. And now it must be dealt with, day after day. It is restless in the night, moaning about aches, unable to find a comfortable…

May 11, 2021

Doga Tekin's Blog | The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals

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PSE WARNING: If you suffer from photosensitive epilepsy, please consider skipping this post! The visualisations on this page might trigger a seizure. Sorry! The Hypnotic World of Degenerate Spirals Recently, I was looking for a way to add a spiral to my website1. My search led me to this CodePen,…

May 10, 2021

21-year-old Developer Makes a Public Transport App for his Hometown in Morocco – with Trufi - Trufi Association

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Tétouan, Morocco, is a picturesque and historic city near the northern tip of the Morocco. Tétouan has a public transport network, featuring modern buses, but no efficient way to plan a journey – until now. Thanks to a 21-year-old developer who calls Tétouan his hometown, residents and visitors can…

May 10, 2021

Tilting Trains and Technological Dead-Ends

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The history of tilting trains is on my mind, because it’s easy to take a technological advance and declare it a solution to a problem without first producing it at scale. I know that 10 years ago I was a big fan of tilting trains in comments and early posts, based on both academic literature on the…

May 9, 2021

Rechtsextreme Gesinnung - Jung-SVPler verbrüdert sich mit verurteilten Neonazis und promotet rassistische Aufkleber | St.Galler Tagblatt

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Rechtsextreme Gesinnung Jung-SVPler verbrüdert sich mit verurteilten Neonazis und promotet rassistische Aufkleber Ein Walliser Jungpolitiker gehört zum aktiven Kern der rechtsextremen Gruppe «Militants Suisses». Die Gruppe hetzt gegen Linke und Ausländer. Der Dachverband der Schweizer Juden verlangt…

May 7, 2021

The Incredible Rise of North Korea’s Hacking Army

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A Reporter at Large The country’s cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts. Can they be stopped? April 19, 2021 North Korea, whose government is the only one on earth known to conduct nakedly criminal…

May 2, 2021

Sachliche Fassade, dünn aufgetragen

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Text: Basil Schöni Die selbsternannte Jugendbewegung «Mass-Voll» will den Coronademos einen Anschein von Sachlichkeit verpassen. Doch mehrere Kernmitglieder verbreiten Falschinformationen über die Pandemie oder werben in Verschwörungs-Chats um Mitstreiter*innen. Das ‹megafon› hat die öffentlichen…

Apr 30, 2021

Who owns the Nile? - Datawrapper Blog

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Photo by Vincent FOURNEAU, Unsplash Hi, this is Eddie! Here at Datawrapper, I enjoy interacting with our users by answering their questions to support@datawrapper.de, managing our social media, and giving training sessions. When not at work, I like traveling and going on adventures. Since COVID-19…

Apr 29, 2021

Atlantic Dawn | Britishseafishing.co.uk

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“Atlantic Dawn … is the greatest fish killing machine the world has ever seen.” – Charles Clover, The End of the Line. “This is a ship that should never have been built.” – Callum Roberts, The Unnatural History of the Sea. Atlantic Dawn as it is today, renamed the Annelies Ilena. Atlantic Dawn was…

Apr 29, 2021

Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating « OkTrends

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Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating April 7th, 2010 by Christian Rudder Today I'd like to show why the practice of paying for dates on sites like Match.com and eHarmony is fundamentally broken, and broken in ways that most people don't realize. For one thing, their business model exacerbates…

Apr 27, 2021

India's Mini-Craze for Bicycling Around the World

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Jal Bapasola, Rustom Bhumgara, and Adi Hakim (left to right) rode around the world on Royal Benson cycles. Courtesy Anoop Babani and Savia Viegas In 2017, Anoop Babani, Goa-based former journalist, was recuperating from a cycling accident when he encountered a book from 1931, With Cyclists Around…

Apr 26, 2021