“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.”
– Charles Schulz
Earthwalker at Coaldale creates soulful bohemian atmosphere as it attracts so many mittleuropeans who share stories about light travel stories
Scientists Say They Can Make Light Travel 30x Faster Than Normal. “It’s an extraordinary claim, and one the researchers behind it say could revolutionize optical communication
“You know when you [mess] something up and you wish you had the power to hit undo?
... via BC in 2019 AD
No one owns the beach 🏖 not even the Voyageurs at voy yov beach 🏝 ( American Radical, the adaptation of a Muslim FBI agent’s memoir about infiltrating an al Qaeda-controlled terrorist cell coming soon )
Help ME ...dia Dragon! What can bees teach economists about how markets work? BBC
The big recent dinosaur fossil discovery: “DePalma was a scientific nobody, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kansas, and he said that he had found the site with no institutional backing and no collaborators.”
Allison Schrager, An Economist Walks into a Brothel, and Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk. My blurb: “Allison Schrager’s An Economist Walks Into a Brothel is the best, most readable, most informative, most adventurous, and most entertaining take on risk you will find
“NASA will pay people $19,000 to stay in bed for 2 months.” Autostarting video at that link, btw.
Sarah A. Seo, Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom. “The revolution in automotive freedom coincided with an equally unprecedented expansion in the police’s discretionary power.”
Nidhal Selmi combined the fractal Sierpinski triangle with the impossible Penrose triangle to create the M.C. Escher-like the Selmi triangle.
The Fertility Doctor’s Secret
Donald Cline must have thought no one would ever know. Then DNA testing came along.
Google Blog: “…A year ago, we launched News Consumer Insights:
a report built on top of Google Analytics that helps news organizations
of all sizes understand and segment their audiences with a
subscriptions strategy in mind. Thousands of news organizations around
the world, including BuzzFeed News, Business Insider, Conde Nast and
Village Media, have used this tool to measure, understand and grow their
businesses. Today, we’re launching a new, free insights tool called Realtime Content Insights
(RCI), built to help newsrooms make quick, data-driven decisions on
content creation and distribution. Journalists will be able to identify
which articles are the most popular across their audience and what
broader topics are trending in their regions. RCI also helps newsrooms
visualize their data with a full screen display mode. It’s now available
for publishers using all versions of Google Analytics…”
HAPPINESS AROUND THE WORLD
The World Happiness Report surveys the state
of global happiness and ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens
perceive themselves to be. The 2019 report ranks Australia at number 11 while
Finland topped the list for the second year in a row.
Produced
by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the report looks at:
· happiness and the community;
· how happiness has evolved over time; and
· the technologies, social norms, conflicts and government
policies that have shaped changes in happiness levels.
Special
chapters focus on generosity and prosocial behaviour, the effects of happiness
on voting behaviour, big data and the happiness effects of internet use and
addictions.