h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Brushing your teeth:
- brush the gums, especially boundary between teeth and gums, angled down/up to get in good
- brush in a circular motion
- no rinsing or mouthwash (dilutes fluoride toothpaste)
- brush between teeth using interdental brushes

The Overwhelming Historical Evidence that Galileo was a Hack
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019/03/20/the-historical-evidence-that-galileo-was-a-hack/

The nice vs nasty of copyright enforcement: The End of Hellwig vs. VMware from Free as in Freedom podcast http://faif.us/cast/2019/apr/22/0x66/ #podcast #gpl

For tactical voting nerds, a list of remain parties which can win in each constituency. If only one remain party could win (even under others' best polling assumptions), then it's easy to know who to vote for. Hopefully PeoplesVote will come up with an answer for more difficult cases. https://dontsplittheremainvote.com/

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in-for-m-'-n
#braille

A very strange-looking paper airplane. https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A656859 #maker

Coming up in python 3.8: https://lwn.net/Articles/793818/ #python

I have a Fairphone 2, which I love: it encourages you to open it up and look inside. I'm very likely to get the Fairphone 3. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/18/fairphone-3-review-ethical-phone #mobile

Remember the old orange square hazard pictograms for toxic, flammable, etc? They got replaced by red and white GHS pictograms way back in 2008 (EC 1272/2008), but only fully disappeared in 2017. Standardization is great, but I miss the attention-grabbing orange. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_hazard_symbols#Former_hazard_pictograms #chemistry

19 October. Join me and up to one million friends in demanding an end to brexit.

Malaria was common across half the world – since then it has been eliminated in many regions
https://ourworldindata.org/malaria-past-prevalence

The past exonerative tense. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-ambiguous-grammar

A visitor has arrived from a distant star - a comet this time, which is much easier to spot than Oumuamua was.
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/why-the-interstellar-comet-matters.html #space

Alternatives to fossil fuels when making useful chemicals https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/05/06/switching-out-of-fossil-fuel-feedstocks #chemistry #climatechange

How democratic is each country? Polity4 is a dataset which will give you long-term trends for each country (up to 2013). Many huge countries are sort-of democratic: Indonesia, Brazil, India. China is the big autocracy. https://www.systemicpeace.org/polity/polity4x.htm

Pirate music for #TalkLikeAPirateDay https://www.jamendo.com/track/902951/captain-blood

Avast! Ye landlubbers find treasure in them thar Talk Like a Pirate Day https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day

NPR buys oil, from an oil well, and sells it to a refinery. Digging oil has a huge impact on the economy, climate and society. This is a great way to show what's happening in a huge and often hidden industry. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/08/26/491342091/planet-money-buys-oil #economics #climate