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Biology research now focuses on "holobionts", the symbiotic union of a multicellular host organism (like human) and its microbiome.
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The world of printed seed catalogs (200+ still exist) and mail ordering seeds for your garden. How quaint, I didn't realize all of this still existed! 🌱
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/20/what-we-learn-from-leafing-through-seed-catalogues
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@ana This pencil is so enticing! 🤩 I've been eyeing all those interesting mechanical pencils on JetPens and know I will give in to one of them one day soon.
https://www.jetpens.com/blog/The-Best-Mechanical-Pencils/pt/809
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Google Podcasts is being killed. I had chosen this as the podcast app when I started on my iPhone.
A lesson for me to never rely on any Google product - they seem to kill everything.
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My TikTok feed is filled with hundreds of videos of people in Seattle struggling to walk and drive on their frozen streets and it's incredibly funny. 😂 (Their city rarely gets the winter freeze apparently.) #SeattleIce
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My TikTok feed is filled with hundreds of videos of people in Seattle struggling to walk and drive on their frozen streets and it's incredibly funny. 😂 (Their city rarely gets the winter freeze apparently.) #SeattleIce
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My TikTok feed is filled with hundreds of videos of people in Seattle struggling to walk and drive on their frozen streets and it's incredibly funny. 😂 (Their city rarely gets the winter freeze apparently.) #SeattleIce
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Cough drops should just be in honey/lemon flavor. Why do they even make them in cherry flavor? That tastes like cough syrup. 🤮
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"There are, in fact, so many insect species—at least 2 million and possibly as many as 10 million—that Robert May, an Australian physicist turned theoretical ecologist, once joked, “To a good approximation, all species are insects!”
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Insects transfer more energy from plants to animals than any other group. They are the solder that holds food chains together." 🐛#TheNewYorker #caterpillars #DavidWagner
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/20/the-little-known-world-of-caterpillars
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“To a person attuned to smaller creatures,” Wagner’s former professor Howard Ensign Evans once wrote, “there is no corner of nature not full of excitement, not rich in unsolved problems.” The Earth, Evans added, “is a good place to live.” 🐛
#TheNewYorker #caterpillars #DavidWagner
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/20/the-little-known-world-of-caterpillars
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The utterly fascinating life of entomologist David Wagner and his quest to discover and study the caterpillars of North America. 🐛
#TheNewYorker #caterpillars #DavidWagner
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/20/the-little-known-world-of-caterpillars
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How Jet Pens packs stationery orders. 👇️ That is some finely configured packing software they use!
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Intro to lead grades in pencils. I finally understood how the No. 2 pencils, as they are called in the US, fit into the grades.
https://www.jetpens.com/blog/The-Best-Lead-Grade-For-Every-Application/pt/475
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Watching all these pens in JetPens videos makes me drool and buy them all, even though I barely write a page in a week. 🖊
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Romance novel fans on TikTok have invented new hashtags and more than doubled sales of this genre of books. 📚
"'Pride and Prejudice' is now categorised as #enemiestolovers. As P.D. James, a novelist, once observed, Jane Austen novels are merely 'Mills & Boon written by a genius'."
https://www.economist.com/britain/2023/03/06/sales-of-romance-novels-are-rising-in-britain
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"Under English common-law tradition, the judiciary is bound by precedent: principles established by judges in previous cases are binding for future ones. This puts case law on an equal footing with legislation.
The civil-law tradition traces back to the Code Napoléon, a legal system that was set up in France under Napoleon, which restricted both the independence & the discretion of the judiciary, subordinating it to the legislature."
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This article is a good introduction to the 2 types of legal systems in the world: the English common-law and the French-German civil-law. Most countries in the world practice one of these 2.
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@skinnylatte Yikes, I liked having the vegetarian food there many times with friends. Never saw them push that cult stuff on the customer though.
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"Unlike lithium, sodium is abundant: it makes up most of the salt in the oceans. [...] Given sodium’s advantages, non-chemists may wonder why it was not preferred to lithium in the 1st place. The answer is that sodium atoms, which have 11 protons, 12 neutrons & an extra electron shell, are bigger & heavier than lithium ones (3 protons & 3 neutrons). A sodium battery will be bigger & heavier than a lithium one."
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"Lithium & sodium are alkali metals, which are famously reactive. This is because their outermost shell of electrons has but a single occupant. These “valence” electrons are easily shed, creating positive ions (cations). If, however, the lost electrons are routed to their destinations via a wire, while the cations make the journey separately, through a medium called an electrolyte, the result is an electrochemical cell."
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This nostalgic post about the TUI IDEs from Borland felt so true.
I doubt I'd have taken to programming if I hadn't learnt first in the friendly TUI IDEs of QBasic, Turbo Pascal, Turbo C & Turbo C++. Today's beginners are faced with the hard cliff of Vim/Emacs on one side & the bloated VSCode/Studio-like IDEs on the other side. There is no fast, friendly, lightweight all-in-one debugger-included IDE for students anymore.
https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/the-ides-we-had-30-years-ago-and
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An autorickshaw hailing app from Bengaluru competes with Uber/Ola!
"An app called Namma Yatri, launched in November by the rickshaw drivers’ union, directly connects riders to drivers, with no commission for digital middlemen. It averages around 68,000 trips a day, from only 2,000 at the start of the year, and boasts more than 78,000 drivers and 1.4m customers on its platform."
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This is why I relax with TikTok at the end of the day! 😂
https://www.tiktok.com/@mr.chicken.official/video/7248412832411209003
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Someone on TikTok shared this product and I have to thank them for discovering the Bar Keepers Friend. It worked like magic for me on the stubborn yellow/brown/black colorings/stains that forms over time in bathroom sinks, shower stall and bathtub. No other general bathroom cleaning product available in the store worked this well before. 👌
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@jackerhack I didn't have the Miyoo Mini Plus on hand but I did watch the RetroGameCorps comparison video of these two before making the call. They are both pretty well matched (except for Wifi) and the Anbernic was more easily available (back when I was buying), so I went with that.
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Retro Game Corps in one heck of an addictive Youtube channel for me. He does gorgeous eye-candy video reviews of every new retro game hardware that is coming out these days (and there is a LOT). I find these offline gaming devices that fit in a pocket and play classic games to be such a charm! 🎮️
This is a highly recommended Youtube channel to subscribe and watch whenever new videos drop.
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"China’s notorious “nine-dash line” is [...] a U-shaped tongue of passive cartographic aggression."
#TheEconomist #NineDashLine #China
https://www.economist.com/asia/2023/09/21/chinas-claim-to-the-south-china-sea-gets-even-odder
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The number of F1 visas granted to Chinese to study in US universities is 3x smaller today than what it was at its peak in 2015.
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TIL about "Album Archive", that Google informed me over email that it is shutting down. Checked out and found a few old pics from Blogger and Hangouts there. Who gave this unused product this terrible generic name?!
Good riddance and another reminder to not rely on any new Google service for anything. If it's not one of their top services, it is likely to be killed at some point.
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Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra has been surprisingly successful, but it is not clear how it helps Congress improve its pitiful fortune in the coming general elections.
#TheEconomist #BharatJodoYatra
https://www.economist.com/asia/2023/01/26/relaunching-rahul-gandhi-again