Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiaba planned to sail from Hawaii to Tahiti last spring. They ran into engine trouble in late May, and were eventually rescued by the Nav y on October 25, 900 miles southeast of Japan. (more…)
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Two sailors and two dogs rescued at sea, months after distress call
Stilgar: Usul, we have wormsign the likes of which even God has never seen. Paul: Streuth! Say hi to Digaster longmani , an enormous earthworm reported on by 7 News Queensland in Australia . Adds Fox News : Robert Raven, Head of Terrestrial Biodiversity at the Queensland Museum, told the news site the earthworm in Mace’s photo could measure up to three feet long once it relaxes and stretches out. “In the 1970s, I was walking through Lamington National Park and could hear them beneath me as they gurgled through some water,” Raven recalled. “Seeing them is a sign we are getting good rain.”
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Giant worms roam Australia
Reddit embarked on a purge of violence-advocating content today , the targets generally being Nazis and their friends, but also at least one animal abuse subreddit and one targeting white people. The newly banned and removed pages include r/NationalSocialism, r/Nazi, r/whitesarecriminals and r/far_right. Reddit’s new policy says: “Do not post content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or a group of people.”
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Reddit rids itself of Nazi subreddits
Master luthier John Monteleone created a series of four archtop guitars , one for each season. Anthony Wilson of The Met shows how and why each sounds different than the others. (more…)
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Guitarist demonstrates beautiful tonal differences in "The Four Seasons" Guitars
Webflow’s history of the web is a Bayeaux Tapestry of obsolete virtues and current vices, a superimposition of new and old bad things. It’s a clever and very 2017 way to market a web design app that lets normal people keep making worthwhile mistakes on the web — a gateway to free expression — as it becomes increasingly technical and forbidding. I’m startled by how comfortingly, reliably minimal the very early stuff was. Even the lurid GIF explosion in late 1990s! Simple technology made even a terrible mess accessible.
If you’re craving some light reading, might I suggest Stephen Hawking’s 1965 doctoral thesis ” Properties of Expanding Universes .” In celebration of “Open Access Week 2017,” Cambridge University Library has made Hawking’s 117-page thesis freely available online. “By making my PhD thesis Open Access, I hope to inspire people around the world to look up at the stars and not down at their feet; to wonder about our place in the universe and to try and make sense of the cosmos,” Hawking says . “Anyone, anywhere in the world should have free, unhindered access to not just my research, but to the research of every great and enquiring mind across the spectrum of human understanding. “Each generation stands on the shoulders of those who have gone before them, just as I did as a young PhD student in Cambridge, inspired by the work of Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell and Albert Einstein. It’s wonderful to hear how many people have already shown an interest in downloading my thesis – hopefully they won’t be disappointed now that they finally have access to it!” From the thesis abstract: Some implications and consequences of the expansion of the universe are examined. In Chapter 1 it is shown that this expansion creates grave difficulties for the Hoyle-Narlikar theory of gravitation. Chapter 2 deals with perturbations of an expanding homogeneous and isotropic universe. The conclusion is reached that galaxies cannot be formed as a result of the growth of perturbations that were initially small. The propogation and absorption of gravitational radiation is also investigated in this approximation. In Chapter 3 gravitational radiation in an expanding universe is examined by a method of asymptotic expansions. The ‘peeling off’ behaviour and the asymptotic group are derived. Chapter 4 deals with the occurrence of singularities in cosmological models. It is shown that a singularity is inevitable provided that certain very general conditions are satisfied.
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Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis now online
Martin Kirkholt Melhus’s workplace bans connecting his development computer to the internet, so he hacked together a modem using HTML5: by plugging over-the-ear headphones into his laptop’s 3.5mm audio jack and then placing the headphones over a network-connected built-in mic, he is able to tunnel a network connection outside the firewall (or that’s the theory; as he notes, “This was only ever intended as a gimmick and a proof of concept – not something that I would actually use at work.”) (more…)
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A working modem using HTML5 sound
The Syndaver is a super-realistic robotic human corpse simulator with replaceable viscera that med students can dissect again and again, freeing them to use the donated bodies of people who willed their remains to science for med school pranks, like sneaking them into the alumni dinner in a tuxedo. (more…)
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Syndaver: A $95K animatronic cadaver that’s replacing med-school corpses
The Property and Evidence Tracking System (PETS) is the NYPD’s huge database where it stores ownership information on the millions in New Yorkers’ property it takes charge of every year (including about $68m in cash and counting), through evidence collection and asset forfeiture. (more…)
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NYPD has no backup for its seized property database, recording millions in annual seizures
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Here’s how to learn every nook and cranny of Microsoft Excel and Office