Epic Proportions

Rule No. 1 When Making Baby Rhinos: Try Not to Get Squashed Wall Street Journal

Filmmaker Jamie Scott made his name in the timelapse space with Fall, a Central Park timelapse of epic proportions that took 6 months of dedication to capture. And yet his followup timelapse, titled Spring, somehow puts his first creation to shame.

The cherry blossoms, for example, take at least two weeks to bloom and are only available for about six weeks of the year. I only got three attempts per year.

Spring is the flower timelapse to end all flower timelapses. “All in all this took 3 years to shoot,” writes Jamie on Vimeo. “I shot over 8TB of 5k footage.”

This Incredible Flower Timelapse Took 3 Years and 8TB of Photos to Create

Facebook denies parents access to dead daughter’s account Naked Security 

 Boffins find evidence of strange uranium-producing bacteria lurking undergroundThe Register

The hottest planet in the known Universe has been found – and it’s warmer than most stars ScienceAlert 

WSJ Ends Google Users’ Free Ride, Then Fades in Search Results Bloomberg

The biggest British Airways IT meltdown WTF: 200 systems in the critical path? The Register. Chuck L: “This truly is a WTF situation.”

The infamous Watergate scandal "pales" in comparison to the allegations about the Trump administration's links to Russia, former United States intelligence chief James Clapper has said in an explosive set of remarks in Canberra.
Watergate pales compared with Trump says former US intelligence chief

Auditor-general today released a snapshot (including cyber crime issues) of its audits of eight public universities and a further 51 entities they own for calendar year 2016. The audits include an examination of internal controls related to financial reporting.

Putin Interview: Did Russia Interfere in the Election, Collect Info on Trump?NBC News. Money Putin quote: “Right now, I think we have representatives from a hundred American companies that have come to Russia,” Putin said. “Do you think we’re gathering compromising information on all of them right now or something? Have you all lost your senses over there?”

‘Do you even understand what you’re asking?’: Putin and Megyn Kelly have a heated exchange over Trump-Russia ties Business Insider

Comey to be pressed on whether Trump interfered with Russia probe Reuters

Trump’s Russia scandal is more like Iran-Contra than Watergate — which isn’t good news Salon 

Donald Trump berates London mayor over response to terror attacks Guardian “God that’s low.”

Koch Brothers Behind Trump’s Climate Exit, Sachs Says Bloomberg 

The bottleneck in Rex Tillerson’s State Department Politico

Immigrant entrepreneurs in the US wait for Trump’s next move FT

Trump administration rolls out social media vetting of visa applicants Ars Technica

Putin Quizzed by NBC News’ Megyn Kelly Over Russian Involvement in U.S. Elections NBC Jerri featured other reports on this yesterday. Notice they gave the articulate Putin a lousy translator. Kelly is relying on the widely debunked “17 agency” report of December. The best thrashing comes from staunch Putin opponent Masha Gessen in the New York Review of Books. 

Putin, Trump and ‘my guy’ Macron Asia Times 

Russia ‘blocking’ rail freight shipments to Latvia Lloyds List (Lambert). Latvia started this tit-for-tat. But still…

We may owe our lives to a back channel with Russia Washington Post. Lambert: “Read all the way to the end.”