An excerpt from the Atlantic -
Blowing Out Birthday Candles Increases Cake Bacteria by 1,400 Percent
But it’s okay, really!
By SARAH ZHANG
I can identify the exact moment when my relationship with birthday cake changed forever, and it was last week, when I read a study titled “Bacterial Transfer Associated with Blowing Out Candles on a Birthday Cake.”
Of course, the more cautious (aka germophobic) among us have already thought about it in gruesome detail. One colleague said she scrapes off the top layer of frosting, a habit that suddenly made perfect sense but which I for some reason had never before considered. I had been living in ignorant, saliva-splattered bliss.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/07/birthday-candle-bacteria/534987/?utm_source=nl-atlantic-daily-072717
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
An excerpt from Wired -
INSIDE CUBA’S D.I.Y. INTERNET REVOLUTION
by Antonio García Martínez
Every week, more than a terabyte of data is packaged into external hard drives known as el paquete semanal (“the weekly package”). It is the internet distilled down to its purest, most consumable, and least interactive form: its content. This collection of video, song, photo, and text files from the outside world is cobbled together by various media smugglers known as paqueteros, and it travels around the island from person to person, percolating quickly from Havana to the furthest reaches in less than a day and constituting what would be known in techie lingo as a sneakernet: a network that transmits data via shoe rubber, bus, horseback, or anything else.
https://www.wired.com/2017/07/inside-cubas-diy-internet-revolution/?mbid=nl_72617_EIC_p1&CNDID=
INSIDE CUBA’S D.I.Y. INTERNET REVOLUTION
by Antonio García Martínez
Every week, more than a terabyte of data is packaged into external hard drives known as el paquete semanal (“the weekly package”). It is the internet distilled down to its purest, most consumable, and least interactive form: its content. This collection of video, song, photo, and text files from the outside world is cobbled together by various media smugglers known as paqueteros, and it travels around the island from person to person, percolating quickly from Havana to the furthest reaches in less than a day and constituting what would be known in techie lingo as a sneakernet: a network that transmits data via shoe rubber, bus, horseback, or anything else.
https://www.wired.com/2017/07/inside-cubas-diy-internet-revolution/?mbid=nl_72617_EIC_p1&CNDID=
A Guitar Made of Trees
From Atlas Obscura -
Pedro Martín Ureta's Forest Guitar
Guitar made of trees, dedicated to a man's lost love.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/guitar-forest
Pedro Martín Ureta's Forest Guitar
Guitar made of trees, dedicated to a man's lost love.
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| GENERAL LEVALLE, ARGENTINA |
Brown Sugar Waffle Recipe
From the LA Times -
http://www.latimes.com/food/recipes/la-fo-sos-waffles-brown-sugar-kitchen-20170719-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter
http://www.latimes.com/food/recipes/la-fo-sos-waffles-brown-sugar-kitchen-20170719-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter
Cap and Trade - Explained in 90 Sec
From the LA Times -
http://www.latimes.com/politics/94177818-132.html
http://www.latimes.com/politics/94177818-132.html
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Brain Damage
From the NY Times -
110 N.F.L. Brains
A neuropathologist has examined the brains of 111 N.F.L. players — and 110 were found to have C.T.E., the degenerative disease linked to repeated blows to the head.
By The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/25/sports/football/nfl-cte.html?action=click&contentCollection=Television&module=Trending&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article
110 N.F.L. Brains
A neuropathologist has examined the brains of 111 N.F.L. players — and 110 were found to have C.T.E., the degenerative disease linked to repeated blows to the head.
By The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/25/sports/football/nfl-cte.html?action=click&contentCollection=Television&module=Trending&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article
Monday, July 24, 2017
The Problem Isn't His Mouthpiece
Excerpts from the Washington Post -
Why Anthony Scaramucci won’t make a dent in Trump’s problems
By Michael Gerson
The Trump administration’s reality problem is a historically unpopular president, pushing historically unpopular legislation (at least on health care), in a historically divided party, to a historically polarized country. Hiring a new head of communications will not fundamentally alter this state of affairs.
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Trump’s greatest need is not someone who will defend him on cable television. It is an administration capable of even the baby steps of governing — defining a positive, realistic agenda and selling it to Congress, starting with one’s own party. Trump does not have a communications problem; he has a leadership problem.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-anthony-scaramucci-wont-make-a-dent-in-trumps-problems/2017/07/24/5db1d3b0-708b-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.7a1e65a74c3b
Why Anthony Scaramucci won’t make a dent in Trump’s problems
By Michael Gerson
The Trump administration’s reality problem is a historically unpopular president, pushing historically unpopular legislation (at least on health care), in a historically divided party, to a historically polarized country. Hiring a new head of communications will not fundamentally alter this state of affairs.
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Trump’s greatest need is not someone who will defend him on cable television. It is an administration capable of even the baby steps of governing — defining a positive, realistic agenda and selling it to Congress, starting with one’s own party. Trump does not have a communications problem; he has a leadership problem.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-anthony-scaramucci-wont-make-a-dent-in-trumps-problems/2017/07/24/5db1d3b0-708b-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html?utm_term=.7a1e65a74c3b
The Future is Now
An excerpt from the Verge -
A Wisconsin company will let employees use microchip implants to buy snacks and open doors
by Adi Robertson
A Wisconsin company called Three Square Market is going to offer employees implantable chips to open doors, buy snacks, log in to computers, and use office equipment like copy machines. Participating employees will have the chips, which use near field communication (NFC) technology, implanted between their thumb and forefinger. It’s an extension of the long-running implantable RFID chip business, based on a partnership with Swedish company Biohax International. The vending kiosk company, also known as 32M, will “chip” employees at a party on August 1st. (According to an email to The Verge, chips and salsa will be served as snacks.) Around 50 people are supposedly getting the optional implants.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/24/16019530/three-sqaure-market-implant-office-keycard-biohacking-wisconsin
A Wisconsin company will let employees use microchip implants to buy snacks and open doors
by Adi Robertson
A Wisconsin company called Three Square Market is going to offer employees implantable chips to open doors, buy snacks, log in to computers, and use office equipment like copy machines. Participating employees will have the chips, which use near field communication (NFC) technology, implanted between their thumb and forefinger. It’s an extension of the long-running implantable RFID chip business, based on a partnership with Swedish company Biohax International. The vending kiosk company, also known as 32M, will “chip” employees at a party on August 1st. (According to an email to The Verge, chips and salsa will be served as snacks.) Around 50 people are supposedly getting the optional implants.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/24/16019530/three-sqaure-market-implant-office-keycard-biohacking-wisconsin
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