Entries from May 2021 ↓

• Satellite data reveals impact of warming on global water cycle | Carbon Brief
  The study, published in Nature, finds that the change is mainly driven by the world’s land surface heating up. This confirms a long-standing theory that, as the climate continues to warm in the future, the water cycle will gain energy and “intensify”.

  The study, published in Nature, finds that the change is mainly driven by the world’s land surface heating up. This confirms a long-standing theory that, as the climate continues to warm in the future, the water cycle will gain energy and “intensify”.

• “Who? Weekly” Explains the New Celebrity
  Today’s stars gain status not through distance but through aggressive proximity. For five years, one podcast has been tracking their rise.
• Rapamycin inhibits prostate cancer cell growth through cyclin D1 and enhances the cytotoxic efficacy of cisplatin – PubMed
• Targeting mTOR signaling for cancer therapy
• The rapamycin-sensitive signal transduction pathway as a target for cancer therapy
• Toward rapamycin analog (rapalog)-based precision cancer therapy
• Essay: Some of Us Did Not Die*
  *On learning to talk to my grief with Vivaldi while reading June Jordan
• Bees Opening a Soda Bottle || ViralHog
  Occurred on May 17, 2021 / Caraguatatuba, São Paulo, BrazilThe video was recorded during my lunch break from work. I got a soda from a customer but soon the …
• Hot tub health kick: why a long bath is almost as good for you as a long run
  Researchers have discovered that prolonged immersion in a piping hot bath has many of the same medical benefits as aerobic exercise
• The End IS Near. No, Seriously.
• (400) https://twitter.com/page_eco/status/1398648338136723466/video/1
  RT @page_eco: Excellent: The visual effect of this perspective on juggling.
• Near-Complete Ban on Abortion Is Signed Into Law in Texas
  Gov. Greg Abbott signed one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion measures, banning it after six weeks of pregnancy, as Texas lawmakers take a hard-right approach to major issues.

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• earth :: a global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions
• iPhone 12 Pro Max Case
• One Summer, 73 Books
• Untitled (https://www.mediaite.com/news/poll-3-in-4-republicans-believe-trump-supporters-are-not-to-blame-for-january-6th-capitol-attack/)
  RT @stevesilberman: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” – Orwell
• The life changing inventions the experts said were impossible
  “IT ALWAYS seems impossible until it’s done.”
• Chefs of Reddit, what are some “red flags” people should look out for when they go out to eat?
• Rapamycin hits the target
  Cancer

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• Roger Ebert's Journal

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• (400) https://twitter.com/BitchuationPod/status/1398036854650380288/video/1
  RT @BitchuationPod: “The St. Louis police literally are a continuation of a slave patrol. There’s no debate about that.” says Robert Evans (@IwriteOK). Evans has an entire podcast, Behind the Police, dedicated to understanding the origins of American policing. He explains a bit here:
• (400) https://twitter.com/SeattleWXGuy/status/1397981774777622530/video/1
  RT @SeattleWXGuy: The Colby, KS Early supercell structure show of May 26, 2021 #kswx
• Datastream documentation  |  Google Cloud
  Datastream is a serverless and easy-to-use change data capture (CDC) and replication service. It allows you to synchronize data across heterogeneous databases and applications reliably, and with minimal latency and downtime.

  Datastream supports streaming from Oracle and MySQL databases into Cloud Storage. The service offers streamlined integration with Dataflow templates to power up-to-date materialized views in BigQuery for analytics, replicate your databases into Cloud SQL or Cloud Spanner for database synchronization, or leverage the event stream directly from Cloud Storage to realize event-driven architectures.

• Why You Should Wait Out the Wild Housing Market
• AI Powered Misinformation and Manipulation at Scale #GPT-3
  Risks of autoregressive language models and the future of prompt engineering
• Immunity to the Coronavirus May Persist for Years, Scientists Find
  Important immune cells survive in the bone marrow of people who were infected with the virus or were inoculated against it, new research suggests.
• Opinion | When it comes to knowing U.S. history, we should all be ‘woke’
  Yes, you can be a patriot while acknowledging our nation’s historical horrors.
• If the Shoe Fits : Winklepicker
  ‘Mule, ‘winklepicker,’ and 8 other looks for your feet
• (400) https://twitter.com/JimPethokoukis/status/1397944555027185665
  RT @Noahpinion: The first gunshot knocks the first horse archer off his horse.

  It begins.

• Untitled (https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/astronomer-geoff-marcy-booted-national-academy-sciences-wake-sexual-harassment)
  RT @KarenFlemingPhD: Finally. Sexual harassment IS scientific misconduct and should be treated as such. #timesup
• (400) https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1397907640458563585
  RT @daveweigel: Thinking here about something in @IsaacDovere’s book: A focus group of two-time Obama voters who went for Trump. One reason: Obama kept getting stymied and they wanted a president who’d do stuff.

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• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/climate/biden-alaska-drilling.html?smid=tw-share)
  RT @ElizKolbert: Could there be a better metaphor for our time? "ConocoPhillips plans to install ‘chillers’ into the permafrost — which is fast melting because of climate change — to keep it solid enough to support the equipment to drill for oil."
• (400) https://twitter.com/NYHCampaign/status/1397618560881594370/video/1
  RT @EgSophie: This is so good
• Take the 2021 DORA State of DevOps survey | Google Cloud Blog
  RT @ChrisShort: Recommended Read: Take the 2021 DORA State of DevOps survey
• Untitled (https://www.nycsouthpaw.com/p/misogyny-and-mass-shootings)
  RT @nycsouthpaw: Our mass shooting problem is a misogyny problem.

  An entirely unoriginal reminder, from me.

• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/27/health-202-congressional-democrats-are-trying-jump-start-action-health-care/?tid=ss_tw
  RT @BriannaATucker: Dems @FrankPallone and @PattyMurray move to write a bill to create a government-run “public option” plan — a promise President Biden made on the campaign trail, but is now expected to leave out of his budget proposal, via @pw_cunningham w/ @EllerbeckAlex
• kfserving/mnist.json at master · kubeflow/kfserving
• How This Zombie Fungus Turns Cicadas into Horror-Movie Sex Bots
• (400) https://twitter.com/jstein_wapo/status/1397661313078370309
  RT @KarinSung_: Dems need to stop working with GOP. All of these are earth destroying cuts
• (400) https://twitter.com/patrickkeneally/status/1397660790971199490/photo/1
  RT @patrickkeneally: Some pics of the supermoon I took last night at Bondi
• How to easily redact text in a PDF on your Mac
• (400) https://twitter.com/harrylitman/status/1397630223022100482
  RT @juliettekayyem: I misspoke. Today’s mass shooting makes 232. The casualness of this clarification (how many can any of us name?) is the problem. @CNN
  Cite:
• (403) https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
  RT @juliettekayyem: I misspoke. Today’s mass shooting makes 232. The casualness of this clarification (how many can any of us name?) is the problem. @CNN
  Cite:
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/us/corcoran-california-sinking.html)
  RT @JohnBranchNYT: You know how when you suck the last drops from a Capri Sun, it shrivels up? That’s kind of what is happening in Central California as we suck all the water from the ground. Glad we did this important story.
• I Feel Great About My Neck
  It took me to my mid-40s to learn not to depend on anyone else’s approval of my appearance.
• Untitled (https://www.axios.com/energy-department-single-use-plastics-recycling-365a7d34-d728-4e79-9693-81e24041b3c4.html)
  RT @SecGranholm: For years, single-use plastics have had a detrimental impact on the environment—clogging landfills and polluting our neighborhoods, parks, and beaches. It’s time to change that.♻️
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/24/sports/olympics/simone-biles-yurchenko-double-pike.html)
  RT @RevJacquiLewis: Judges are scoring her new move at a lower difficulty out of “fear that Biles is so good that she might run away with any competition she enters simply by doing a handful of moves that her rivals cannot.”

  Facing Black excellence, just change the rules.

• Google Cloud Dataplex unifies distributed data | Google Cloud Blog

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• Do You Want to Be Known For Your Writing, or For Your Swift Email Responses?
• The Mystery of Magic’s Greatest Card Trick
  At 94, the magician David Berglas says his renowned effect can’t be taught. Is he telling the truth?
• (400) https://twitter.com/RubeGelatinous/status/1396559284838797317
  I feel like if I had a personal brand, this would be my logo
• A ‘Hamilton’ Star Discovers Lunatic Comedy With ‘Girls5eva’
  Renée Elise Goldsberry plays a delusional diva reuniting a girl group in a music biz satire executive produced by Tina Fey. It’s her midcareer moment.
• (400) https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1396795363785420800
  RT @drvolts: They’re maneuvering to steal the 2024 election. There’s no secret plan, no anonymous sources or leaked documents — it’s just all right out in the open — so we seem unable to treat it as an important story, or call it what it is.
• (400) https://twitter.com/algore/status/1396996483203932163
  RT @dwallacewells: Almost a third of all carbon emissions ever produced in the entire history of humanity have come since the release of An Inconvenient Truth.
• (400) https://twitter.com/jamestalarico/status/1379454925143441408
  RT @jamestalarico: WE DID IT!! We capped the out-of-pocket cost of insulin in Texas!

  Our bill is headed to the Governor’s desk for a signature! #txlege

• (400) https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1397050107455967235/photo/1
  RT @CT_Bergstrom: Crows exhibit a remarkable range of behaviors.

  This one was doing something I hadn’t seen before. It would hover like a tern above the lake, then dive down and, fluttering at the surface, actually collect a minnow from the water.

• (400) https://twitter.com/DeadsoundApp/status/1396851235513409537/photo/1
  RT @DeadsoundApp: This is my favorite Bob anecdote
• (400) https://twitter.com/DeadsoundApp/status/1396846325715640326
  RT @DeadsoundApp: This is my favorite Bob anecdote

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• Google Photos finally stops pretending its compressed photos are ‘high quality’ – The Verge
• Opinion | I’m a Vaccinated Transplant Recipient. I Don’t Have Antibodies. Now What?
  As the vaccinated prepare to move on, the future for many of us is uncertain.
• (400) https://twitter.com/EngineMarvelous/status/1394808945282207748/video/1
  RT @EngineMarvelous: Finished another zoetrope. This time I wanted to make a tribute to one of the greatest animators, Hayao Miyazaki. #StudioGhibli #totoro #catbus #stopmotionanimation #vfx
• (400) https://twitter.com/lindasgrant/status/1396725152889643010/photo/1
  RT @lindasgrant: I remember this strip as if it were yesterday. #BobDylanAt80
• (400) https://twitter.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1396558389254131719/photo/1
  RT @AJamesMcCarthy: A composite image of last night’s moon, presented in 55 megapixels for your enjoyment. The colors are completely real, and a result of saturating the surface to reveal the mineral composition. #astrophotography #space #opteam

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• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/21/joe-manchin-please-listen-carefully-what-mitch-mcconnell-just-told-you/
  RT @ThePlumLineGS: The Rubicon that Democrats have to cross is to accept that the GOP is fundamentally an anti-democracy party. There won’t be bipartisanship in defending democracy. It will be done on a partisan basis, by Dems alone, or it won’t happen at all.

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• Thelma & Louise: The film that gave women firepower, desire and complex inner lives
• My favourite Dylan song – by Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, Tom Jones, Judy Collins and more
• Faster than a PCR test: dogs detect Covid in under a second
  Study in London used six enthusiastic dogs in a double-blind trial
• Deadly Fungi Are the Newest Emerging Microbe Threat All Over the World — Scientific American
  These pathogens already kill 1.6 million people every year, and we have few defenses against them
• Drunk Bus movie review & film summary (2021)
• Blake Bailey Had Exclusive Access to Philip Roth’s Personal Papers. Roth’s Estate Plans on Destroying Them.

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• HFA – The Humane Farming Association
• Meet the mystery woman who mastered IBM’s 5,400-character Chinese typewriter
  Lois Lew operated the improbable, ill-fated machine with aplomb in presentations from Manhattan to Shanghai. 70-plus years later, she’s telling her story.
• How to spot a perfect fake: the world’s top art forgery detective
• (400) https://twitter.com/simonstalenhag/status/1395984040151429122/photo/1
  RT @simonstalenhag:
• (400) https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/1395866344176898048/photo/1
  RT @WesleyLowery: I keep thinking about this, from @perrybaconjr, and how it speaks to so many of the conversations happening currently in journalism about our values, ethics and standards
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/20/american-democracy-is-even-worse-shape-than-you-think/
  RT @WesleyLowery: I keep thinking about this, from @perrybaconjr, and how it speaks to so many of the conversations happening currently in journalism about our values, ethics and standards
• (400) https://twitter.com/byrdinator/status/1392486546633285637
  RT @chrislhayes: Key point here: what Republicans introduced on Jan 6th for the first time in over a century is the spectre of a Congressional veto of the nation’s choice for president. When he says "he got the votes" he means…in Congress.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/21/upshot/covid-bills-financial-long-haulers.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage)
  RT @harikunzru: Now the US is at the stage of the pandemic where hospitals bankrupt the sick and go after the estates of the dead
• (400) https://twitter.com/wesleylowery/status/1395866344176898048
  RT @jaketapper: Also: “The Republicans are laying the groundwork to refuse to certify a 2024 Democratic presidential victory should the GOP hold a House majority.”
• (400) https://twitter.com/angelicabastien/status/1395792371497975808
  RT @poniewozik: This is, among other things, a great description of how the camera is a presence in a filmed work, and what specifically Barry Jenkins does with it here.

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• Research findings that are probably wrong cited far more than robust ones, study finds
• Crypto-mining gangs are running amok on free cloud computing platforms | The Record by Recorded Future
  Over the course of the last few months, some crypto-mining gangs have switched their modus operandi from attacking and hijacking unpatched servers to abusing the free tiers of cloud computing platforms.
• The Underground Railroad Is the Cinematic Event of the Year
• (400) https://twitter.com/rabihalameddine/status/1395767886195552261/photo/1
  RT @rabihalameddine: Moïse Kisling, Eucalyptus and Palm Tree, 1935. Oil on canvas.
• How Your Hot Showers And Toilet Flushes Can Help the Climate
  Evolving technology is making it possible to turn sewage wastewater into energy that can heat and cool large buildings. The largest such project in the U.S. is under construction in Denver.
• Prabhakar Raghavan Isn’t CEO of Google—He Just Runs the Place
  In his first interview since taking a top job, Raghavan gets into the future of search, misinformation, employee ferment, and robots making phone calls.

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