Links for February 2025
Wednesday, February 5th, 2025101 American Fossil Sites You’ve Gotta See by Albert B Dickas
From the FOX propaganda channel: Misleading Rumor Claims Trump Admin Found 75K-80K ‘Missing’ Migrant Children
Sterilizing seeds
“My recommendation is 10% Calcium hypochloride or 5% Sodium hypochloride for 30 minutes, and for complex surfaces of bigger seeds, it is essential to add 2% Tween 20 as detergent (a small drop for 1mL bleach in an Eppendorf tube with seeds).”
“Sodium hypochlorite (1-5%) or 10% Calcium hypochlorite are most common. Mercuric chloride 1% is also probably the best, but use of 3 compounds: Sodium hypochlorite, KMnO4 and H2O2 with washing by water after each one gave best results for nuts and beans.”
“Glass container, clean. Place seeds into it and pour hydrogen peroxide 3%. Soak for five minutes. Drain, pour distilled water and soak for five minutes.”
Growing Seed Sprouts at Home, link.
Rictors Seeds
Map of obscure islands
Musk’s Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government. Imagining how we’d cover overseas what’s happening to the U.S. right now. by Garrett Graff
So many unmarried men. For Mary Midgley, the Western philosophical tradition is shaped by the fact that its greatest practitioners were bachelors. by Ellie Robson
Rubik’s cube diagram, video.