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lace weight wool for next beanie(s) (at The Quarter Stitch)
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forty-nine years ago when I lived in NOLA (at Jackson Square)
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when I surprise her (at French Quarter – CBD, New Orleans, Louisiana)
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memento mori (at Lafayette Cemetery No. 1)
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Royal Sonesta Hotel, because my dad was field engineer on the construction in the late 1960s. Bourbon Street is currently having some work done. (at French Quarter – CBD, New Orleans, Louisiana)
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additivism: The E in E. coli now stands for electronics Synthetic biology—our attempt to engineer living organisms—has put a lot of effort into making genetic circuitry mimic what we do in silicon. Logical gates, amplifiers, and more have all been implemented using DNA and proteins.
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new-aesthetic: Aire – World’s First Self-Flying Drone for The Home
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prostheticknowledge: Paperclips Browser-based Idle Game by Frank Lantz lets you control an AI that runs a paperclip company. There are no instructions but if you are familiar with the game AdVenture Capitalist you will probably work things out (and get drawn into it in the same way, drawn by the growing numbers and frustrated with…
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The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks
The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks kenyatta: Traditional definitions of the state and its authority hinged on the right to raise taxes, and on its legal monopoly on coercing its people, from punishing and imprisoning them to waging formal war. But as James Scott points out, roughly between 8000…
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Plenty of Work, Not Enough Pay
stoweboyd: One of the most troubling unresolved issues in modern economics is the continued lack of wage increases even as unemployment has dropped to under 5%. This is a worldwide phenomenon and appears to be linked to a number of intertangled factors, like the decline of unions and collective bargaining, the rise of freelancing and outsourced…