Good Morning! On this day, (Sunday) June 18 in 1913 Sylvia Field Porter was born. She was an American economist, journalist and author. At the height of her career, her readership was greater than 40 million people.
I was forced to make the full time switch to Linux last year by Microsoft's dull policies around hardware requirements for Windows 11 (Windows 10 was also no longer an option). I had dipped my feet into trying linux over the years, but I guess I wasn't ready until MSFT pushed me. Now I can say that I will never look back and I'm super happy to see some of my friends and coworkers in physics/astronomy talking about making the switch with me after seeing how it's going for me.
I want to contribute to other #FOSS projects in my spare time as well, and of course make some friends along the way.
Does anyone have any recommendations?
Because I am prone to forgetting and losing things, I thought I’d build a small journal of materials and tasks involved in the creation of a home radio telescope. This is a work in progress...
Lee Berger, Keneiloe Molopyane, Agustín Fuentes, & John Hawks have detonated a nuclear weapon in the study of human evolution. The small-brained Homo naledi had culture, stone tools, and cave drawings. Bonus: More mortuary practices evidence
Math teachers who believe women no longer face discrimination tend to be biased against girls’ ability in math. And effects of bias like this can snowball over time.
Muriel Hind 1st woman motorcyclist in England starting c.1901. Competed in speed trials on 2, 3 & 4 wheels wearing Edwardian hat, veil, boots laced to knee, long coat & skirt. Test rider for Rex, 1910 they created Blue Devil bike for her b #OTD 27 May 1882 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Hind
This was a fascinating, illuminating, and enraging conversation with Dr Richard Denniss, Executive Director of The Australia Institute, and Professor Margaret Hellard, Deputy Director of the Burnet Institute, about why we're not collecting covid data, and why it matters. This one is really important, so please listen, and share.
RD:"Why aren't we collecting the data? Because they don't want to admit failure. They don't want to make it easy for me to tell you what the cost to GDP of this heroic approach to covid has been."
I've been here since mid-November 2022, when Twitter went from intolerably bad to ludicrously worse. So I guess I'll be here a while. Ran out of room in the bio, and running out of chars in this post; and I don't want to make a thread -- so here are hashtags I read, and may boost:
Good Morning! On this day, (Thursday) May 11 in 1906 Jaqueline Cochran was born. She was an American pilot and business executive. She pioneered women's aviation as one of the most prominent racing pilots of her generation. She set numerous records and broke the sound barrier.
'The “Kaktovik numerals,” named after the Alaskan village where they were created, looked utterly different from decimal system numerals and functioned differently, too. But they were uniquely suited for quick, visual arithmetic using the traditional Inuit oral counting system, and they swiftly spread throughout the region. Now, with support from Silicon Valley, they will soon be available on smartphones and computers—creating a bridge for the Kaktovik numerals to cross into the digital realm.'
In her delightful forward to "Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium," Lori Emerson describes people visiting he Media Archaeology Lab. She describes the delight - even for people too young to possibly have nostalgia for using floppies - of using those computers and disks.
5/ My kids' school gives them Chromebooks. While a Chromebook isn't necessarily locked down in the way the iPad is, it can be configured to be, and the schools do. My kids know ChromeOS has a fully-functional Linux environment, but are prohibited from accessing it. They know there are ssh apps, Git apps, etc., but they can't access them, either.
Most kids don't know this.
In an era where we go on and on about the importance of #coding and #STEM, we teach kids to be feeble consumers.
💥MRC-funded Post-Doctoral Research Associate (PDRA) position to investigate the response of resident neural progenitor cells after spinal cord injury (SCI) in regenerative
and non-regenerative species.