Planet money had great episode on this topic if you’re interested https://www.npr.org/2024/05/15/1197959089/-price-of-gold-periodic-table-elements

Maize was domesticated 9000 years ago by humans there is no “original corn”

Thousands of years older than 1716 if you count domestication of species like bananas

Barbados dollars Trinidad and Tobago Dollar

Trump’s blood-soaked four-year reign of error

Brilliant summation

Having two sets of wrenches and sockets is absolute worst. Especially when it seems like 10mm does 80% of the work but is missing 100% of the time

I have been living in Vancouver’s downtown east side (de facto epicentre of drug use) for nearly a decade and this is the first I’ve heard of the programme. If it’s been on for a while there’s been no change. If it get reversed there will still be no change

The shepherd at night is probably a red herring. Shepherds stay out at night during lambing season which is February-April in Europe and North America but November-March in Israel

Props on the nature subscription, I had a subscription with physical copies that were fun to thumb through to really get a scope on my lack of understanding of everything in the world.

Why acedemic journals? Each article are all bleeding edge experimentation and theory that only the authors a handful of people really understand.

O’Reilly has a great subscription option and their books are very comprehensive and easy to read.

Depends how you look at the numbers. While there’s definitely some positive increase in the in red states with a modest sub-1% growth rate, they saw a 2% growth rate previously. So on its face it looks like a positive increase but it’s still a negative trend with a -50% reduction of the base line

Conversely, blue states were seeing a -0.5% growth rate but have tightened that to -0.05% so that’s a 10x increase over baseline while still seeing a population decline

Sources

1. Census data April 2020 to July 2022
2. 2020 US Presidential election results for blue/red

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My favourite conundrum is the unlawful imprisonment of the unborn if the mother is in prison or jail.

If you’re already using an esp32 why not just get a simple ultrasonic sensor and measure flow on an indoor inlet pipe? You may need to know the pressure (probably 1.7 kPa) and temperature but that should be possible to calibrate against your meter readings

Then your project just becomes a simple pipe clamp that can be indoors

You hardline republicans sure are a contentious people

It’s not really like they are storing DNA sequences anyways. They use a genotyping array which just reads ~650k single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).

An analogy would be 23andme has a 6.4mil page book of DNA for a single customer but they only know the position and letter of single character on every tenth page. Sure it’s enough to identify someone (You can confidently use 50 SNPs to identify these days) but it’s not like 23andme was ever storing a whole genome