Our World in Data looks at Coronavirus: what's the mortality rate in healthy people, and how do you know if you have normal flu? https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
Science Friday: Slime Mold, The Most Charismatic Single Cell You’ll Meet Today
https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/curoious-creatures-slime-molds/ #podcast #nature
The strange power of the idea of “average”
http://timharford.com/2019/08/the-strange-power-of-the-idea-of-average/ #math
RESTful APIs - when is a POST not a POST?
https://zaitcev.livejournal.com/257298.html
Very pleased that my favourite satellite is back :)
Schrödinger's Cab Firm: Uber's Existential Crisis https://www.londonreconnections.com/2019/schrodingers-cab-firm-ubers-existential-crisis/ #london
Clocks go forward on 29 March 2020. They also change in 2021 and 2022, but do not change in 2023. https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-end-of-summer-time.html
New research about old shoes
https://www.improbable.com/2019/05/13/shoe-concealments-of-yore-a-recent-study/
PyPy's new JSON parser
https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2019/10/pypys-new-json-parser.html #python
What happened to the computer geeks in Whitehall - the UK's Verify identity system.
https://ukcampaign4change.com/2019/03/07/is-154m-verify-identity-system-the-it-failure-it-seems-to-be/ #ukpol
Less meat is nearly always better than sustainable meat, to reduce your carbon footprint
https://ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-sustainable-meat #climate
Don't be confused by the '70s name and flowery shirt - this is 100% electronic music. Mostly laid-back and relaxing, with occasional strongly emotional tubes mixed in. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0072l4x #music
Generator expressions in Perl
https://lwn.net/Articles/793441/ #perl
National parties are part of europe-wide europarties, which combine into even broader groupings. The largest are centre-right EPP (25%), centre-left S&D (20%) and liberal Renew (15%). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_groups_of_the_European_Parliament
A twitter bot trying to explain stock market moves
http://muffinlabs.com/2014/04/21/stckmrktstatus---providing-logical-explanations-for-the-stock-market/
If you know a website which is about to disappear... if no one else is uploading it to the Internet Archive Wayback machine... and if you can find them in the irc channel... maybe you can discover... The Archive-Team. https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot #www
Most websites allow you to connect using the private and secure https protocol, but it's not always the default. HTTPS Everywhere makes it the default.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere #www
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