h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Encouraging News About Coronavirus Immunity
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/08/18/encouraging-news-about-coronavirus-immunity

The adorable ABCs of Particle Physics - elementary particles have never been more cute
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/particle-physics-abcs/phone/index.html #physics

Chrome does not have tracking protection
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2019/08/23/deconstructing-googles-excuses-on-tracking-protection/ #internet

Only one company is able to grow defect-free crystals used for graphene research https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/08/27/the-one-source-of-perfect-crystals #chemistry

Less CSRF, more SameSite cookies
https://scotthelme.co.uk/csrf-is-really-dead/ #webdev

Which countries are most densely populated?
https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth#which-countries-are-most-densely-populated

LibreOffice Personal Edition, and making sure the developers get paid https://lwn.net/Articles/825598/

Debugging an airplane
http://austinmeyer.com/2019/10/23/when-is-a-pt-6-like-a-barbeque/

Some thoughts on who we are
https://lustigletter.blogspot.com/2020/08/some-thoughts-on-who-we-are.html #ukpol

The Game of Snakes
https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2020/01/09/the-game-of-snakes/ #math

Decarbonizing transport - a government consultation https://bettertransport.org.uk/blog/better-transport/have-your-say-on-decarbonisation #ukpol #climatechange

Thunder and lightning! Volunteers detect the radio bursts that lightning produces to make this map. https://www.lightningmaps.org/

Given recent events in Belarus and Hong Kong, it might be a good time to set up a Tor Bridge https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/

Ceres, the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, has water under the surface - although it may be a bit muddy and salty. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/aug/10/planet-ceres-ocean-world-sea-water-beneath-surface #space

If decimated means reduced by 10%, does centimated mean reduced by 1%, and millimated down by 1/1000th?

Mentos and Cola at Various Altitudes
https://www.improbable.com/2020/03/31/mentos-cola-at-various-altitudes/ #science

Are Uber and Lyft Increasing Traffic Deaths?
https://humantransit.org/2020/03/are-uber-and-lyft-increasing-traffic-deaths.html #roads

Cliff Stoll's Klein bottles https://youtu.be/-k3mVnRlQLU?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWJeBhzCJ_JXdaIXi_YJl7Bh #math