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Every Republican Political Ad by Corey Forrester
Mechanical Watch site by Bartosz Ciechanowski
Origami folding simulator
Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies: Burn It With Fire(Nicholas Weaver)
Donna and Walt audio: A Series of Unlikely Events
Americans are split on buying a house where the prior owners were murdered
Nearly two in five Americans say they believe that ghosts (36%), demons (37%), and psychics (37%) exist. Less than half of Americans say each one doesn’t exist. Far fewer believe in the existence of vampires (7%) and werewolves (7%); more than 80% of Americans say vampires and werewolves do not exist.
Panic! On the Editorial Page: Breaking down a “cancel culture” scare story by Michael Hobbes
“Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of COVID-19”, Nature, Feb 7 2022
The Other Speed Trap: America’s traffic laws hurt the poor, and don’t really deter anyone. But what if traffic fines scaled with income? by Brett Simpson
How To Keep Enforcers Like Police, Military And Spies Under Control By Ian Welsh
The Huanan market was the epicenter of SARS-CoV-2 emergence, pre-print
Built to Lie: A new book about the Boeing 737 MAX disaster exposes the company’s allergy to the truth. by Maureen Tkacik
“fuzzy Wuzzy” bath soap grew filaments of aluminum hydroxide, link.
36 Most Clever Cooking Tips I Learned This Yearby Hannah Loewentheil
COVID-19 vaccination by county vote in 2020
Designing a Workflow For Thinking by Steven Johnson
Easy Focus Stack in Linux
Who Goes Fascist? A Political Psychologist Explains. Kristen Renwick Monroe looks at rescuers, bystanders, and perpetrators to understand why people do unspeakable acts. by Linda Mannheim
Reuters unmasks Trump supporters who terrified U.S. election officials by LINDA SO and JASON SZEP. Reporters track down criminals who made violent threats who police ignored.
GO client for linux, Sabaki
The ultra-wealthy have made full use of Roth individual retirement accounts. Here’s how you can do the same.
This Is How Many Calories You Burn on a Hilly Hike
60 Minutes Helps Andrew Sullivan’s Whitewashing: The blogger gets some prime time help with rewriting history by Jeet Heer
Flourless chocolate cake recipe
I’m Confused Why All These People Are Quitting Jobs That Pay No Money and Make Them Want to Die by Chas Gillespie
Chicago Tool Library, South side
Plan C, information on access to mifepristone and misoprostol
Typical Employee Equity Levels
The 10 commandments of salary negotiation
Why $15 minimum wage is pretty safe. And why economists changed their minds on the minimum wage. by Noah Smith
Frank Wilhoit: The Travesty of Liberalism: “There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
Oh My Fucking God, Get the Fucking Vaccine Already, You Fucking Fucks
by Wendy Molyneux
COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Cases: Data from the States
Make Your Best Oktoberfest by Josh Weikert
semaglutide, weight loss of 20%, injectable drug, peptide analog. semaglutide + cagrilintide in trials, more weight loss. bimagrumab, in trials, causes weight loss and gain of muscle.
Major study of Ivermectin, the anti-vaccine crowd’s latest COVID drug, finds ‘no effect whatsoever’
1,300 year old fish weirs on the Vancouver coast
Huperzine A inhibits the breakdown of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine by the enzyme acetylcholinesterase.
Webb’s Testing is Complete. Now it Begins the Journey to the Launch Site. Nov launch at the earliest.
Ecuador legalized gangs. Murder rates plummeted.
A Short Talk about Richard Feynman (2005) by Stephen Wolfram
Adding an electrical sub-panel:
How to Install an Electrical Subpanel
How to Install a Subpanel
Battle on the Battleship: 5 Times Crews of the Deadliest Warships Decided to Revolt: Think mutiny
