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Author:  Fogghorn [ Fri Mar 29, 2019 10:16 pm ]
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Long read but incredibly interesting writing about perhaps the greatest fossil find ever that records the end of the dinosaurs and rise of mammals.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019 ... saurs-died

Author:  Bosc [ Mon Apr 01, 2019 9:40 am ]
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Fogghorn wrote:
Long read but incredibly interesting writing about perhaps the greatest fossil find ever that records the end of the dinosaurs and rise of mammals.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019 ... saurs-died


Saw your title and figured it was this piece. Started reading it last night but haven't finished. Incredible. The computer simulation of what happened...man.

Author:  Fogghorn [ Mon Apr 01, 2019 11:51 am ]
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Bosc wrote:
Fogghorn wrote:
Long read but incredibly interesting writing about perhaps the greatest fossil find ever that records the end of the dinosaurs and rise of mammals.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019 ... saurs-died


Saw your title and figured it was this piece. Started reading it last night but haven't finished. Incredible. The computer simulation of what happened...man.


All of it is interesting, the detective work, the protagnist biography, the politics of academia, the cataclysm and the science behind understanding. It's great science but also great human interest read. But yeah its long.....lol

Author:  Pokecheque [ Sun Aug 11, 2019 2:56 pm ]
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A college student has accomplished something incredible--he's decoded the data recorded in ancient Inca khipus, a bookkeeping method of knots on strings the civilization used.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the- ... ket-newtab

Author:  Fogghorn [ Sun Aug 11, 2019 4:06 pm ]
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Pokecheque wrote:
A college student has accomplished something incredible--he's decoded the data recorded in ancient Inca khipus, a bookkeeping method of knots on strings the civilization used.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the- ... ket-newtab


saw it a few months ago. More interesting is your use of getpocket to find it. Love it, thank god its not Google run though.

Author:  Pokecheque [ Sun Aug 11, 2019 4:13 pm ]
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Fogghorn wrote:
saw it a few months ago. More interesting is your use of getpocket to find it. Love it, thank god its not Google run though.


Yeah it just kinda came with Firefox (Chrome was annoying the shit outta me so I ditched it) and it really serves up some interesting articles.

Author:  Fogghorn [ Sun Aug 11, 2019 8:22 pm ]
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Pokecheque wrote:
Fogghorn wrote:
saw it a few months ago. More interesting is your use of getpocket to find it. Love it, thank god its not Google run though.


Yeah it just kinda came with Firefox (Chrome was annoying the shit outta me so I ditched it) and it really serves up some interesting articles.


They track your interests and customize the articles you receive, but unlike Chrome/Google, Firefox doesn't share the tracking with others so its really handy and not selling my interests off.

Author:  Pokecheque [ Mon Aug 12, 2019 3:10 pm ]
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Fogghorn wrote:
They track your interests and customize the articles you receive, but unlike Chrome/Google, Firefox doesn't share the tracking with others so its really handy and not selling my interests off.


Good to know. I'll be going with Firefox from here on out on all machines.

Author:  harmfuljays [ Tue Aug 13, 2019 9:30 am ]
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Wonderful article. Thanks for sharing.

I love stuff like this....makes me run off down the hole for hours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Traps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Interior_Seaway

Author:  Pokecheque [ Sat Aug 17, 2019 4:00 pm ]
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A new state of matter has been discovered!

Solid
Liquid
Gas
Plasma

and now...

Topological Superconductivity

Just rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/scienc ... iscovered/

This is expected to have some impact on the still-nascent science behind quantum computing.

Author:  Fogghorn [ Sat Aug 17, 2019 8:13 pm ]
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Pokecheque wrote:
A new state of matter has been discovered!

Solid
Liquid
Gas
Plasma

and now...

Topological Superconductivity

Just rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/scienc ... iscovered/

This is expected to have some impact on the still-nascent science behind quantum computing.


Still not peer reviewed and published, so it has a ways to go before being confirmed as a new state of matter

Author:  Fogghorn [ Sun Aug 18, 2019 9:29 am ]
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Bill Nye explaining solar sails, although its more engineering than science but we don't have an engineering is amazing thread so here it lands.

http://digg.com/video/bill-nye-explains-solar-sailing

Author:  Fogghorn [ Tue Aug 20, 2019 10:12 am ]
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Pokecheque wrote:
A new state of matter has been discovered!

Solid
Liquid
Gas
Plasma

and now...

Topological Superconductivity

Just rolls right off the tongue, doesn't it?

https://www.popularmechanics.com/scienc ... iscovered/

This is expected to have some impact on the still-nascent science behind quantum computing.


A few other states of matter I have never heard of.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/scienc ... ket-newtab

Author:  Fogghorn [ Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:28 am ]
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Are plants intelligent? If a plant can communicate with others, react to stress, and learn from its history and modify future behavior is that intelligence?

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/neve ... ket-newtab

Author:  Stinky [ Thu Sep 10, 2020 9:30 am ]
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Fogghorn wrote:
Are plants intelligent? If a plant can communicate with others, react to stress, and learn from its history and modify future behavior is that intelligence?

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/neve ... ket-newtab

Yes they are.

I frequently say that as a matter of consciousness, the gap between plants and humans is similar to that between humans and what we like to call 'God'.

While many others seem to think that humans to god are like dogs to humans...

That gives us way too much credit.

Author:  Fogghorn [ Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:53 am ]
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Possible cure for diabetes, this is worth celebrating.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/un ... etes-again

Author:  Chris18 [ Tue Nov 24, 2020 11:20 am ]
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Fogghorn wrote:
Possible cure for diabetes, this is worth celebrating.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/un ... etes-again


That would be great, considering insulin prices are insane. My father is paying something like 300% what he paid 10 years ago and the quality is crap.

Author:  Pokecheque [ Wed Sep 27, 2023 5:31 pm ]
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For the first time ever, a sample was returned from an asteroid to Earth! Mind-blowing stuff.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/24/world/os ... index.html

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