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What’s the matter with airports? (2011)(askthepilot.com)
56 points by NotSwift 5y ago|119 comments
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by NotSwift 5y ago
> Also importantly, the gases are concentrated at power plants. This is an important observation. With a centralized power plant you can take measures that would not be feasible/economical for individual cars.
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by NotSwift 5y ago
I agree that the large banana plantations currently use a lot of chemicals that harm the environment. But the same can be said of many other large scale agricultural products. When you go to tropical countries you will find that they freque
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Dugway Sheep Incident(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by NotSwift 5y ago|0 comments
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Marvin Heemeyer (The Killdozer Man)(en.wikipedia.org)
27 points by NotSwift 5y ago|6 comments
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Can this fruit be saved? (2005)(popsci.com)
1 points by NotSwift 5y ago|2 comments
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What Was the Earliest Music?(gizmodo.com)
1 points by NotSwift 5y ago|0 comments
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by NotSwift 5y ago
A nice article. It seems likely that we will never really know how life started. It is still very interesting to research this subject, because it might help us to learn more about the possibility of life on other planets.
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What Do the UFO Videos Show?(gizmodo.com)
8 points by NotSwift 5y ago|0 comments
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Universe 25: The Mouse “Utopia” Experiment That Turned into an Apocalypse(iflscience.com)
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A Sterile Solution: How CRISPR Could Protect Wild Salmon(undark.org)
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Tales of Scientists Gone Rogue (Or Worse)(undark.org)
1 points by NotSwift 5y ago|0 comments
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by NotSwift 5y ago
Something that might surprised some people is that there are far more species of "moths" than species of butterflies. It is just that it is more difficult to find them during the daytime. It seems likely that the day-active butter
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Moths Are So Gorgeous They ‘Put Butterflies to Shame’(smithsonianmag.com)
1 points by NotSwift 5y ago|1 comments
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by NotSwift 5y ago
Even apart from global warming, approximately 1 in 8 bird species are already on the brink of extinction. Major causes are loss of habitat, introduction of predators (cats, rats, snakes) and spread of diseases (bird flu is already pandemic
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Australia’s trash bin-raiding cockatoos(smithsonianmag.com)
141 points by NotSwift 5y ago|95 comments
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Who's the Smallest of Them All? Mini Moth Gets a Big Title(smithsonianmag.com)
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Should Children Get Covid Vaccines? What the Science Says(scientificamerican.com)
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Western Drought Has Lasted Longer Than the Dust Bowl(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by NotSwift 5y ago|0 comments
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Biden says ditching the filibuster would throw Congress ‘into chaos’(nytimes.com)
1 points by NotSwift 5y ago|0 comments
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Wall-E Tried to Warn Us(gizmodo.com)
4 points by NotSwift 5y ago|1 comments
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Couple Charged After Gender Reveal Pyrotechnics Sparked a Deadly Wildfire(gizmodo.com)
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What the Medieval Olympics Looked Like(smithsonianmag.com)
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Pegasus: Princess Latifa and Princess Haya numbers 'among leaks'(bbc.com)
2 points by NotSwift 5y ago|0 comments
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Monkeypox: More than 200 contacts tracked in US for rare disease(bbc.com)
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by NotSwift 5y ago
The basic problem here is that the UK government decided that it definitely did not want to to follow EU regulations. That implies that there are at least two different regions of the world: those that follow UK regulations and those that f
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Genealogists say Leonardo da Vinci has 14 living relatives(arstechnica.com)
1 points by NotSwift 5y ago|2 comments
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by NotSwift 5y ago
A quote from the BMJ article that is the basis for the NPR article: > Long before covid-19, the US was at a disadvantage relative to other high income nations in terms of health and survival The US spends a lot more on healthcare than si
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by NotSwift 5y ago
This is a very interesting article. Two countries that are very similar (on the same island) show very different rates of development. The author analyzes a lot of different possible causes, but does not really try to push one of them as th
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by NotSwift 5y ago
A good IDE can help tremendously in developing software. It can write a lot of the boiler-plate code that you consider bloat. With a statically typed language the IDE and the compiler have a lot of information about your program. They can h

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