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Oct 2013 Links

Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013

Comic biography of Ayn Rand
Is the Advice of Economists Useful?
Repubs Worked to Engineer a Federal Budget Crisis
The MiddleMan comics and TV show
Reminder: lack of health insurance kills (Harvard Medical Schoo, 2009)
Using Windows XP in VirtualBox on Linux
Air-gap flash DIY
The roots of the 2008 financial crisis: Barry Ritholtz – November 6th, 2011 and Dean Baker Sunday, 03 July 2011
300KV Cockroft Walton multiplier
TIP120 transistor for power control
CR guide to health insurance

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Sept 2013 Links

Sunday, September 8th, 2013

True Courage
Commandments for Using PICs
NYT tribute to Eugenie C. Scott
Chris McCandless, who’s death in Alaska was described in “Into the Wild” was likely killed by a neurotoxin, beta-N-oxalyl-L-alpha-beta diaminoproprionic acid, known as ODAP. HOW CHRIS MCCANDLESS DIED POSTED BY JON KRAKAUER, The New Yorker, Sept 2013
11 questions to see if libertarians are hypocrites
Catching the stars: Roger Angel is one of the world’s most brilliant and audacious engineers. Could he design the next energy revolution? by Lee Billings
7 Ancient Writing Systems That Haven’t Been Deciphered Yet
End run options to avoid the the US debt-ceiling
Steampunk coffee shop (SA)
MakerJuice selling reasonably priced UV curable resin
Fossils at Mazonia-Braidwood State Fish & Wildlife Area
GeodeFest, held in September
Copper Bracelets and Magnetic Wrist Straps do not work for Rheumatoid Arthritis. Richmond et. al., 2013. PLoS ONE
Costs of Obamcare (ACA) on fast food businesses: 0.5% of sales, 3 cents / sandwich. Benefits: higher productivity and reduce absenteeism and turnover, workers get their hepatitis and other communicable diseases treated, flu shots and other vaccinations

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Aug 2013 Links

Saturday, August 24th, 2013

A case study of “disorganized development” and its possible relevance to genetic determinants of aging. Walker et. al. Mech Ageing Dev. 2009 May;130(5):350-6. PMID: 19428454
Delayed development syndrome (Brooke Greenberg from Reisterstown, Maryland; Gabrielle Williams of Montana; Nicky Freeman of Australia)
How An Engineering Toy For Girls Went From Kickstarter To Bestseller
Barrayar dreaming
Dolphins are not super intelligent
Bradley Manning and the Two Americas by Quinn Norton
Smallest geome: Nasuia deltocephalinicola. 112,000 base pairs. 137 protein-coding genes.
Two sleeps, sleep pattern before electricity
Mac speed comparisons

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Links for July 2013

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013

FBI ignored plot to assassinate Occupy protesters
12 Very Real Voter-Suppression Tactics
Electro-Permanent cargo gripper
Electropermanent Magnetic Connectors and Actuators: Devices and Their Application in Programmable Matter by Ara Nerses Knaian
ALNiCo magnets
Sand resonance pattern video
MEAM waterjet, senior design project, 10k psi
Nothing About Abortion in the Bible
Iodine’s effect on IQ test scores–15 pts in iodine-deficient areas
Replacing Samsung SGH-T679M Digitizer
Silicon Valley (and the history of toxic waste)
Makers of Things
Human vestigial tail
A hundred proofs the Earth is not a Globe
History of Inequality
The Tea Party’s paranoid aesthetic by Kim Messick

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June 2013 Links

Sunday, June 2nd, 2013

Allpaths-LG genome assembler
ELM327 interpreter chip provides an RS-232 (serial) interface to ODBII car network
About universal basic income
Catsup tank video
Article on a CBO report on tax breaks
CBO report: The Distribution of Major Tax Expenditures
in the Individual Income Tax System
We Already Tried Libertarianism – It Was Called Feudalism by Mike Konczal
Spiders do not Bite
Perspective on Institutional Secrecy and Leaks
High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society by Carl Hart
Books to read: The Invention of Religion by Alexander Drake
Books to read: Euclid’s Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace by Leonard Mlodinow
ChildbirthConnection.org evidence-based information on pregnancy

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May 2013 Links

Sunday, May 5th, 2013

Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities, according to U.S. utilities By David Roberts, source pdf
Article about the 2012 Chicago teachers strike and the school bus driver strike in NYC this year
Competing theories of the genetics of the Jews. It will be interesting to see how this turns out.
Watch making project blog
Glasswing Butterflies
Glasswing
CSS element browser support
BatchPCB is now OSHPark
Sharps and Flats by John Nevil Maskelyne (1894)
Octopus intelligence
Potoo
Illegal surveillance on US activists continues
Wingnut rumors: Will the IRS hire 16,500 new agents to enforce the health care law?

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Links for April 2013

Monday, April 1st, 2013

State and local tax rates
Marine nudibranches
Big farm in a Chicago warehouse
Conspiracy theory poll results 2013
Study of patents effect on innovation, expected results found
On Ezra Klein’s mea culpa on the Iraq War
Magazine review of sleep technology: modafinil, armodafinil, Transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS), and TMS are the best yet
Niumbaha superba a rare African vespertilionid bat reclassified. Badger-striped!
Bunny Huang’s open source radiation detector $799 from Medcom, and the bGeigie Nano kit, $450
Vaccine story
Anti-vaccine track record

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Links for March 2013

Friday, March 1st, 2013

Weight and Mortality
Updated list of Illinois makerspaces/hackerspaces:
Little Bits Workshop in River Forest, Illinois
Wanger Family Fab Lab at the Museum of Science and Industry
Makerspace Urbana in Urbana, IL (webpage broken) See here
Pumping Station: One in Chicago (north side), IL
Workshop 88, Glen Ellyn, IL
Deficit down 50% since 2009, national press ignores the story
40% of American workers make less than 1968 minimum wage adjusted for productivity gains
A guy building a CNC, posted a SLA7078 stepper driver
Google doodle for Nicolaus Copernicus’s 540th birthday
Hail Columbia!
Our Current Economic Mess, Explained With Headlines
Inexpensive GPS, Mini GPS u-blox B39 PCI-5S
Brasilian birds background audio
DIY high voltage capacitors
Gibberish Asian Font Mystery Solved

Improved Synthesis of Graphene Oxide. Marcano et al., AC Nano. 2010
Effectiveness of vaccines, graphic
2003 Iraq invasion timeline

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Links for February 2013

Thursday, January 31st, 2013

The Conservative Mind
The Long Con: Mail Order Conservatism
Stepper driver circuit using an Allegro driver
Scam School web TV show
Open States, tracks political info at the state level
Some of the history of US assassination policy

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Links for January 2013

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013

The 21st century is a teenager now!

App development stories
Google App Analytics
Google App Analytics with PhoneGap
Sysadmin horror story featuring Sendmail
CTCA: Profiting from Offering Ineffective Therapies to Cancer Patients
Wild Sex
Transparent magnets (aerogel with tiny magnet particles
Crazy unstable compounds: Azidoazide Azides
Dr. Oz, health care fraud tout
Total assessed property value in the US is roughly $30 trillion.
Chicago teacher’s strike 1 2
Romney’s 47%
HTML5 Canvas
The Republican war on democracy in the US
Voting ID laws
Nate Silver strays out of his niche, messes everything up
Scenes from the class war, part I
Funny sex comic part 2
Did they really think only old white men would hear the dogwhistles?
Pibgorn Comic
The best of the internet: John Holbo on the strange world of the conservative mind
The SABRE, an air-breathing rocket engine
Men are too emotional to have a rational argument
The GAGE assessment of short read sequence assemblers
Review of SASHA AND EMMA, The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman
David Brin: Science Fiction for Young Adults: A Recommended List
Diagrams on Conservatism, The Four Types of Conservatives
Totalitarianism in the US: An Accident Waiting to Happen
HMC5883L Digital Compass Module: $10.90 bare HMC5883L, $6.95
Three Axis Magnetic Field / Electronic Compass Sensor Module: $9.90
Fran Blanche, electronics projects / small business
the Makey Makey w/ capacitive sensing
7 steps to turn a photo into a cartoon using Gimp
Andrew Sullivan, destructive hack
Women Don’t Like Libertarianism Because They Don’t Like Libertarianism
Timothy Geithner: Modern Day Metternich
Phage / antibiotic combination treatment
Arrogant Worms “Wouldn’t it be Great if Everybody had a Gun”
C. elegans modeling group OpenWorm
Muckraker Tarbell writes on Standard Oil in 1901

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