Free/open-source sites for the preparation of scientific illustrations: bioicons.com, scidraw.io, bioart.niaid.nih.gov, inkscape.org, biogdp.com, reactome.org/icon-lib

History for GRANITE. Exploring the pyramids of Ancient Egypt

Jan 6 Capital attack video, link.

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Malcolm Gladwell. “Malcolm Gladwell began as a college right-wing Reagan supporter, was trained by the tobacco-funded far-right National Journalism Center, and throughout his career has inserted pro-tobacco, pro-banking industry and pro-PHARMA messages into his books and articles.”

Kveik. A family of strains of brewing yeast that has been used in Norwegian farmhouse brewing for generations.

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Bezos, Trump, and the Failure of Democracy. We are witnessing a watershed moment. Democracy is failing because the rule of law has been broken. And everyone is about to realize it. All at once.

FDA Publishes Final Rule on Laboratory-Developed Test (LDT) Regulation
“Laboratories must then submit a premarket approval application or a 510(k) submission to the FDA, including evidence of the test’s clinical validity and utility.”

CJ Cherryh, Alliance-Union book timeline, link2

A Q&A with David Neiwert, America’s foremost writer and thinker on far-right extremism, on what might happen if Trump wins—or loses. by Rick Perlstein

Red Book of Westmarch

Free and OpenSource Photo Libraries comparison
Many developers + multiuser support: Immich, Librephotos. Immich had multiuser tagging support.

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars by Albert Burneko

Millennials, Gen Xers lead jump in “religiously unaffiliated”, survey

The Charlottesville Hoax Hoax by David Corn

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Behind the Catholic Right’s Celebrity-Conversion Industrial Complex. From Russell Brand to JD Vance to Candace Owens, what happens when the Catholic Church chases influencers—and their legions of followers—down the rabbit hole of the right? by Kathryn Joyce

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Making Meaningful Difference: A Q&A with Philanthropist Laura Gutierrez

How the Republican War on Women Extends to Voting Rights. Most women vote Democratic. And most still change their name when they marry. And that’s where the GOP sees an Achilles’ heel.

How many helium balloons to lift a person? 39 weather balloons, link

Tiny tools, link2

The psychology of conspiracy theory believers, linked article.

HPV vaccine study finds zero cases of cervical cancer among women vaccinated before age 14

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Fresnel Lens Manufacturing – 2018 Michigan Lighthouse Alliance Conference

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Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500 by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler (2023)

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Cats, Cats, Cats! The Incredible Life & Art of Louis Wain
Original Catfluencer: How a Victorian Artist’s Feline Fixation Gave Us the Internet Cat

How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins (Jane Richardson)

Dark Oxygen Is Changing the Calculus of Extraterrestrial Life

The discovery of oxygen production in the deep oceans has profound implications for the origins of life, both here and elsewhere in the universe.

Say It to My Face. How Democrats learned to tell the plain truth and like it by Rick Perlstein

SF writer M. John Harrison. Nova Swing (2006)

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READING: Isaac Asimov on Dominationist Ethnonationalism. It is for everyone, and everyone catches it… by Brad DeLong. From his autobiography.

Biden and Harris Broke the Suffocating “Washington Consensus” on Economics They put a stake through neoliberalism. Now, the vice president has to convince voters that her antitrust, trade, and public investment policies, unlike Trump’s, will improve their lives. by Phillip Longman

What the Russian Invasion Teaches Us About the Right. Contrarians aren’t critical thinkers. They’re gullible reactionaries, vulnerable to conspiracy theories. by David French

Mechanical Movements of the Cold War: How the Soviets Revolutionized Wristwatches. Shortly after the stock market crash of 1929, the Soviet Union purchased a bankrupt watch manufacturer in Ohio. They transformed it into one of the world’s top watchmaking centers.

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In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. […] under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

The Time I Built an ROV to Solve Missing Person Cases

An Implausible Mr. Buckley: A new PBS documentary whitewashes the conservative founder of National Review. by Rick Perlstein, April 17, 2024

The misleading information in one of America’s most popular podcasts: The Huberman Lab has credentials and millions of fans, but it sometimes oversteps medical fact. by A.W. Ohlheiser

The USDA’s gardening zones shifted. This map shows you what’s changed in vivid detail

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Open Bookcases by Robert Benchley, New York World, March 15, 1920

How to Make Google’s ‘Web’ View Your Search Default (&udm=14)

How Science Conquered Diphtheria, the Plague Among Children. It was highly contagious, lethal and mysterious. Then medical experts developed treatments and vaccines, and the affliction disappeared—but not entirely

WuXi AppTec news / blocking Chinese biotech outsourcing

Who Goes Nazi? by Dorothy Thompson (Aug 1941)

The Museum of Science and Industry closed for mysterious reasons last week. Here’s why. It’s a sad day when it’s easier to get information out of the Pentagon than from the Museum of Science and Industry. by Neil Steinberg

Velvet Ants of North America by Dr. Kevin Williams, Dr. Aaron D. Pan, Joseph S. Wilson. 2024.
A New Jersey city that limited street parking hasn’t had a traffic death in 7 years

Thermochromism
Thermochromic properties of some colored oxide materials

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How to Photograph the Sun

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What we talk about when we talk about The Future. A few thoughts on four genres of futurism. by Dave Karpf. Pundit futurism, The Professional, Techno-optimist Futurist, Cassandra-futurism, The Sci-fi futurist

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