Archive for April, 2019

Scott Kelly Spent a Year Taking Photos in Space. They’re Beautiful. – The New York Times

Tuesday, April 16th, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/science/scott-kellys-photos-space.html

Ideal gas law – Wikipedia – PV=nRT

Sunday, April 14th, 2019

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_gas_law

The Eisenhower Method For Taking Action (How to Distinguish Between Urgent and Important Tasks)

Sunday, April 14th, 2019

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“A lot of things that take up mental energy, waste time, and rarely move you toward your goals can easily be eliminated if you apply the Eisenhower Principle. It’s a simple decision-making tool you can use right now. It’s meant to help you question whether an action is really necessary.

You can only benefit from the Eisenhower Method if you can commit yourself to making radical categorization of your daily tasks. This Method requires that you group your tasks and activities into four priorities.

Priority 1 tasks are both urgent and important.
Priority 2 tasks are important but not urgent.
Priority 3 tasks are urgent but not important.
Priority 4 tasks are neither urgent nor important”

The Eisenhower Method For Taking Action (How to Distinguish Between Urgent and Important Tasks)
https://medium.com/the-mission/the-eisenhower-method-for-taking-action-how-to-distinguish-between-urgent-and-important-tasks-895339a13dea via Instapaper

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Let People Share DNA With a Click

Sunday, April 14th, 2019

one end of the spectrum on open DNA

Let People Share DNA With a Click
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-22/the-nih-should-become-the-facebook-of-genome-data

Robot Vacuums Are Finally Good—Here’s Which One to Buy – WSJ

Sunday, April 14th, 2019

room mapping – perhaps elaborate

https://www.wsj.com/articles/robot-vacuums-are-finally-goodheres-which-one-to-buy-11544968981?tesla=y&mod=e2tw

How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World – The New York Times

Sunday, April 14th, 2019

3 parts
R & (J v L) ?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/03/magazine/rupert-murdoch-fox-news-trump.html

Here are cognitive scientist Steven Pinker’s 13 tips for better writing / Boing Boing

Sunday, April 14th, 2019

liked particularly:

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3. Don’t go meta. Minimize concepts about concepts, like “approach, assumption, concept, condition, context, framework, issue, level, model, perspective, process, range, role, strategy, tendency,” and “variable.”

8. Old information at the beginning of the sentence, new information at the end.

10. Prose must cohere: readers must know how each sentence is related to the preceding one. If it’s not obvious, use “that is, for example, in general, on the other hand, nevertheless, as a result, because, nonetheless,” or “despite.”

12. Read it aloud.
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https://boingboing.net/2019/03/27/here-are-cognitive-scientist-s.html

NEJM: Record-Breaking Performance in a 70-Year-Old Marathoner

Sunday, April 14th, 2019

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1900771?query=featured_secondary

We determined the physiological profile of a 70-year-old male marathoner who ran the event in 2:54:23…

LDL 84mg/dL and HDL 66mg/dL, quite impressive…

What happens when data scientists crunch through three centuries of Robinson Crusoe?

Thursday, April 11th, 2019

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-scientists-crunch-centuries-robinson-crusoe.html

Ethics debate as pig brains kept alive without a body – BBC News

Thursday, April 11th, 2019

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43928318