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by andrewl 6y ago
It's a story about the life course of Mary Ann Vecchio, the woman in the most famous photo from the day in 1970 when the National Guard killed four students at Kent State: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_s
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by andrewl 6y ago
I thought you were referring to Tapland's report "I remember the doctors asking me after partial removal of a brain tumour if I remembered them waking me up during the surgery" when you said it "would probably be by far
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by andrewl 6y ago
It's not uncommon to wake people up during brain surgery, or do the surgery without fully anesthetizing the patient at all. They would anesthetize the skull area they cut through. And the brain tissue itself doesn't register pai
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by andrewl 6y ago
It's a story about the life course of Mary Ann Vecchio, the woman in the most famous photo from the day in 1970 when the National Guard killed four students at Kent State: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_s
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The Girl in the Kent State Photo(washingtonpost.com)
20 points by andrewl 6y ago|6 comments
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by andrewl 6y ago
This is an interesting article, but when I saw the title I thought it was going to be about stromatolites, which I believe are the earliest forms of life that are still alive today. And which are quite interesting, too.
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How Sex Surrogates Are Helping Injured Israeli Soldiers(bbc.com)
74 points by andrewl 6y ago|75 comments
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by andrewl 6y ago
On that topic, Fred Brooks, author of The Mythical Man Month, said "Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll b
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by andrewl 6y ago
This is a review of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
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Methods of Power – How Do Authoritarians Rule?(thenation.com)
17 points by andrewl 6y ago|1 comments
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by andrewl 6y ago
The fact that the 15-minute city will not work everywhere does not mean that there is no place it can work. I live in a major city on the east coast of the United States, and I have it now. There are other cities in which it could be im
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Some Liberal-Arts-Focused Colleges Are Adding Career and Technical Training(washingtonpost.com)
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White Supremacists, Conspiracy Theorists Are Targeting Cell Towers, Police Warn(theintercept.com)
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by andrewl 6y ago
I would also be interested in a paper titled: Logic Gates Can Be Implemented by Wombats
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by andrewl 6y ago
For those interested, there is lots of discussion of fluoroquinolones on this site. Make sure you're searching for the term in the comments, otherwise you won't get any hits. I had my own bad experience with them, and know others
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In World Freaking Out over Data Privacy DuckDuckGo Is Ready to Seize the Moment(phillymag.com)
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The Unseen 'Slow Violence' That Affects Millions(bbc.com)
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by andrewl 6y ago
Biomimicry is fascinating. There's some good info at the Biomimicry Institute: https://biomimicry.org
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How Wood Shaped Human History, from Spears to Boats to Books(washingtonpost.com)
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by andrewl 6y ago
We're getting off our old ticket/wiki project system this coming year as it's being sunsetted. Jira is one of the alternatives we're investigating, because several staff have used it in other jobs. I also used it for a b
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On Corruption in America: and What Is at Stake(billmoyers.com)
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How Americans Came to Distrust Science(bostonreview.net)
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by andrewl 6y ago
I am reminded of the Vim family of cleaners: https://www.henkel.com/brands-and-businesses/vim-510960
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The Insidious Attacks on Scientific Truth - Richard Dawkins(spectator.co.uk)
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It's worth noting that it wasn't a 100% dismissal of the findings. From Retraction Watch: But the findings haven’t disappeared — the authors have replaced the paper with a new version, which softens its earlier claims. https:
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Stunning Images of Snowflakes(fastcompany.com)
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Birds and Frogs in Physics(3quarksdaily.com)
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by andrewl 6y ago
It's also been suggested as a factor in the events that lead to the Salem witch trials: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/witches-curse-clues-evidenc...
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by andrewl 6y ago
There's an article from 2000 called Why OO Sucks , by Joe Armstrong: http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/ok/Joe-Hates-OO.htm It was originally discussed here at: https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by andrewl 6y ago
Yes! He is such a clear writer. That essay is the title entry of the collection On Being the Right Size and Other Essays . The other chapters are: William Bateson The Future of Biology When I Am Dead Science and Theology As Art-Forms The L

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