Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today

Search through Rijksmuseum artworks based on meaning

Now that California finally certified election results Friday after 5 weeks, I dove into the 67 page PDF and found some interesting stats between November 2020 and last month’s election. Some were really eye popping

A hypothetical small widebody aircraft for short and medium haul routes may need the rethinking of the way we define the structure of engine thrust ratings. Weneed to offer at least the option of takeoff thrust ratings, climb thrust rating and maximum continuous thrust rating for domestic-regional high cycle utilisation.

So why might a worker at TSMC be more likely to have a child? I propose that TSMC’s own policies are boosting birth rates at the company in two connected ways. 

The answer: It’s happened because people are fundamentally wired to make meaning, and because having a community you feel you belong to is foundational to who we are. If you provide people with a landscape of banal franchises, they will form communities and make meaning in a banal franchise.

Over a century before Allen and Gates wrote their BASIC interpreter, Ada Lovelace wrote and published a computer program. She, too, wrote a program for a computer that had only been described to her. But her program, unlike the Microsoft BASIC interpreter, was never run, because the computer she was targeting was never built.

Together, these tools provide the state with an enormous capability to gather data both covertly, as in the case of spyware, and overtly, through the unlawful and illegitimate use of Cellebrite mobile phone extraction technology. The authorities in Serbia have systematically deployed these tools against peaceful protesters who are already all too often subjected to unjustified criminalization for their activism. This unlawful digital surveillance and data collection directed against civil society violates people’s right to privacy and personal data protection, and profoundly affects their other rights and freedoms, including the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly.

Pretty incredible admission from Kamala’s digital chief via Semafor’s Max Tani: “There’s just no value — with respect to my colleagues in the mainstream press — in a general election, to speaking to the New York Times or speaking to the Washington Post, because those are already with us.”

The Biden Admin paid Reuters over $300 million in government contracts. 11 different Biden government agencies targeted Elon’s businesses. All 11 agencies paid millions to Reuters. Reuters then won the Pulitzer Prize for “their work on Elon Musk and misconduct at his businesses”

Unfortunately, most of the customers using a camera of any sort, perhaps nearly all of them (>90%), want automagic, a word I invented something like 40 years ago. In other words, press a button and the machine does all the thinking, setting, and rearranging for you. What is really being compared in every one of the smartphone versus dedicated camera comparisons I’ve see to date is “how’s the automagic work?” I’ll give the gold crown here to Apple first and foremost, with Google a step behind, and Samsung, et.al. right there at their tails. Dedicated cameras bring up the rear.

I have a special interest in Alzheimer’s disease. For nearly 25 years, I practiced general neurology in Portland, Oregon, and some of my patients had dementia. In 2012, while doing a genealogical DNA search, I inadvertently discovered that I have two copies of the APOE-4 allele, meaning I had a very good chance of getting Alzheimer’s-caused dementia by age 80.

An existential threat. An unlikely alliance. A massive feat of engineering. Today, I’m going to share one of the most important stories in Rogue Amoeba history. “and you can get started with our apps in under a minute. This major improvement will allow many more people to utilize our tools, and we want everyone to know about it.”

The US liquefied natural gas (LNG) Industry has emerged within the past decade to become an important and growing sector of the US economy, with LNG exports not only contributing more than $400 billion to US GDP but also supporting hundreds of thousands of high-quality American jobs since 2016. However, the industry is facing significant hurdles, from the January 2024 US Department of Energy ‘pause’ to mounting permitting challenges and the shifting regulatory and political landscape. 

But what about the other guy? James Coughlan is an official with the Export-Import Bank, and his views on dumping and IP isn’t clear. So why is he nominated? He’s the husband of Kamala’s campaign chief of staff. That’s it. That’s the reason.

To make this a bit more concrete, let’s focus on the biggest Industrial Revolution in recent memory: the rise of China. (The macroeconomist Basil Halperin has done several great Twitterthreadsdigging into the Chinese miracle.) A very live question is the extent to which China’s rise was driven by agriculture or manufacturing. This has critical implications for other developing countries—if state resources are limited, which should policymakers prioritize?

By July, the story had burst into public view, after a Vulture article resurfaced a year-old item from the trade press claiming that Spotify was filling some of its popular and relaxing mood playlists—such as those for “jazz,” “chill,” and “peaceful piano” music—with cheap fake-artist offerings created by the company. A Spotify spokesperson, in turn, told the music press that these reports were “categorically untrue, full stop”: the company was not creating its own fake-artist tracks. But while Spotify may not have created them, it stopped short of denying that it had added them to its playlists. The spokesperson’s rebuttal only stoked the interest of the media, and by the end of the summer, articles on the matter appeared from NPR and the Guardian, among other outlets. Journalists scrutinized the music of some of the artists they suspected to be fake and speculated about how they had become so popular on Spotify. Before the year was out, the music writer David Turner had used analytics data to illustrate how Spotify’s “Ambient Chill” playlist had largely been wiped of well-known artists like Brian Eno, Bibio, and Jon Hopkins, whose music was replaced by tracks from Epidemic Sound, a Swedish company that offers a subscription-based library of production music—the kind of stock material often used in the background of advertisements, TV programs, and assorted video content.

Fast & Efficient Historical Weather Forecast API

On October 15 we started our journey through the book of John. For the last 2 months we’ve looked at Jesus’ birth, life, death & resurrection. We’ve seen miracles & heard Jesus proclaim “I Am” in many different ways. John’s point through all of this has been to help us believe- believe Jesus is the Son of God and the savior of the world.

In 2018, Boeing increased its net debt position by ($4.158bn), year over year, while spending $12.946bn on buybacks and dividends.

In doing so, she quotes a refrain attributed to her father, a film agent who’d sold hair driers before he secured the rights to adapt Ian Fleming’s novels.  “Don’t have temporary people make permanent decisions.” Broccoli’s response to such enthusiasm, one friend said, is often the same: Did you read the contract? Broccoli was irked in one early meeting when Salke referred to James Bond by a dreaded word: “content.” Using such a sterile term, one friend reflected, was like a “death knell” to Broccoli.   has complained to friends that he couldn’t land a meeting with anyone at Amazon above an “L6,” the internal designation for a senior role that is nonetheless six rungs below Chief Executive Andy Jassy, an L12.  At Amazon, the algorithm often does the work, surfacing shows to Prime users based on their viewing habits. During a company meeting about the second season, an Amazon employee admitted her own misgivings. “I have to be honest,” she said. “I don’t think James Bond is a hero.”. The room went silent.

Apple is close to reaching an agreement with Indonesia to lift the ban on iPhone 16 sales in the country after securing preliminary approval for a $1 billion investment proposal, according to Bloomberg. more.

What follows is an essay on how my thinking on bitcoin has changed since I began to write on the topic starting with my first post in October 2012. Since then I’ve written 109 posts on the Moneyness Blog that reference bitcoin, along with a few dozen articles at venues like CoinDesk, Breakermag, and elsewhere.

Nevertheless, RFK Jr. has failed his first political test regarding the incoming administration. He pushed to have his daughter-in-law, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, installed as deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The 44-year-old managed RFK Jr.’s presidential campaign and wasn’t an entirely implausible suggestion to be the number two official at Langley, given her service with CIA for several years in her twenties. However, that history is why she won’t be the deputy director.

Will largely get lost in the shuffle, but worth noting that the Biden brass just admitted they misreported the Syria troop count by 2x

Analyzing the average new vehicle sales per dealership location by franchise reveals stark contrasts in growth and contraction since 2019. Here’s a closer look at how some brands have adapted successfully while others face ongoing challenges:

Like I say, Mister, I believe that was the wonderfulest Christmas in the United States of America.”‘