It's really amazing how these tabs pile up when I'm too busy to deal with them

[conuly]

Just assume I've skimmed many of these rather than reading them fully.

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Art and science marry in Ethiopia's quest for the perfect chicken

How Poetry and Math Intersect

The Swimming Pool Hiding in the Middle of the Desert

Swirling liquids work similarly to bitcoin

DNA Analysis Of Ancient Excrement Reveals The Diets Of Centuries Past

Genetic sleuthing bolsters food poisoning searches

Connecticut lawmakers pass measure to give electoral votes to presidential candidate who wins popular vote

Inside the Controversial World of Slum Tourism

On the Myth of a "Real" America

Casting Aside Shame And Stigma, Adults Tackle Struggles With Literacy

The unique way the Dutch treat mentally ill prisoners

Israel abandons plan to forcibly deport African migrants

Tabasco Sauce Is in a Battle For Its Very Survival

Smothered by Smog, Polish Cities Rank Among Europe’s Dirtiest

Armenia is having a 'color revolution.' So why is Russia so calm?

Why failing to recycle electronics leaves gold mines untapped

Swedish archaeologists uncover brutal 5th century massacre

Betsy DeVos Is Making It Easier for Schools to Send Black Kids to Jail

The Facebook Fallacy: Privacy Is Up to You

Facebook Doesn’t Plan to be GDPR Compliant

'I run for the family I'm not allowed to see'

The Doting Father Who Robbed Armored Cars

Flint crisis, four years on: what little trust is left continues to wash away

The Coal Industry Extracted a Steep Price From West Virginia. Now Natural Gas Is Leading the State Down the Same Path.

Palestinians try to rip through Gaza border fence, drawing heavy Israeli fire

Comments

[kareina]

Where do your tabs even come from, how do you find them in the first place, and why do you share so many of them here?

[conuly]

1. The end of the rainbow
2. Once I was walking and a strangely dressed old lady asked me to get her a cup of water and I declined and ever since then I've been inundated with links.
3. If I don't, they exit my computer and clutter up my room, looking at me plaintively.

[kareina]

Perhaps you could change your browser settings? I have mine set to close all tabs every time it shuts down, and when I re-open the browser it opens the single page I have asked it to have ready to welcome me when I return. I never have links cluttering up my room...

:-P

[conuly]

Oh, but then they'd be sad and lonely.

[greghousesgf]

I want to thank you for the articles you've put here. I may not comment on all of them but I find most of them really interesting.

[conuly]

♥

[l33tminion]

Swirling liquids work similarly to bitcoin

This one is really interesting. Mixing liquids is a classic example of an "irreversible" physical process, and hash functions have an analogous mathematical property of irreversibility, so it makes some sense that the math would be similar. Cryptographic hash functions that have the important property of avalanching (changes anywhere in the input are equally likely to change anywhere in the output) are even referred to as "well-mixed".

[lusentoj]

Oh I think I read about that Swedish excavation thing back when it first started, that or it was something extremely similar... As far as I remember, they thought it was strange from the beginning that so many "treasures" (jewelry etc) were left in like the kitchen areas where people had presumably been hiding them, but they guessed really early on that it had been a massacre because people died in really strange places like doorways.

The problem with excavations in Sweden in general is that there's never enough money for them, so like there's some famous man-made hills (viking king burial grounds) in the viking capital Uppsala (where I lived) that are even a world heritage site, but not even those are anywhere near fully excavated because no money! Another interesting one was near Stockholm they found a huge ton of crap right under the water in the nearby beach that had types of relics they've never found from Sweden before due to how the water preserves stuff differently, buut of course no real money for that either...

On top of that almost no stuff about the ancient Nordics that's actually known (even stuff commonly known by "every Scandinavian person") gets translated to or reported about in English, so even reinactors have an almost impossible time if they don't learn Scandinavian, and I've seen wrong history books/historical films in English. Sucks.

[conuly]

I've seen wrong history books/historical films in English.

Well, that's standard.