The World Is Studded With Artificial Mountains.
Piles of the rock extracted during mining, also called spoil tips, can rise hundreds of feet into the air. Their loose composition can make them unstable and quite dangerous. In 1966, more than 115 children were killed when a mountain made from coal mining debris slid into a school in Wales. A similar disaster occurred in late 2015 when a steep mountain made from building construction leftovers in Shenzen, China collapsed, sent a landslide of mud and concrete onto the factories and neighborhoods below, and caused more than 85 people to go missing. In 2016, an artificial mountain built to extend an airport runway in Charleston, West Virginia collapsed and destroyed a church and a home.
How the ARPANET Protocols Worked.
An ascent through the four levels of the ARPANET protocol hierarchy.
Relevant: IPTables Tutorial 1.2.2.
The Finkbeiner test, named for the science journalist Ann Finkbeiner, is a checklist to help science journalists avoid gender bias in articles about women in science. (Via reddit.com).
It asks writers to avoid describing women scientists in terms of stereotypically feminine traits, such as their family arrangements.
Reading A Letter That's Been Sealed For More Than 300 Years — Without Opening.
(…) to open something is to partially destroy it.
What do we do with the science of terrible men?
It would be awfully convenient, of course, if terrible men were terrible at everything, even mathematics; the building of social science genetics would be easier to raze if it didn’t house other valuable things.
Why is electroshock therapy still a mainstay of psychiatry?
It was a brilliant cure, but we lost the patient.
File under: Germany in a soybean shell.
To Earn His Crown, Germany’s Tofu King Had to Overcome Sausage and the Slammer
To this day, the legal battle continues over whether dairy substitutes made with soy or oat can be called “milk” at all. Until a court battle in 1989, around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the dairy lobby managed to keep soy milk and derivatives such as tofu strictly verboten.
Did you know you can also send trailers, to append metadata after a message body?
The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology.
(…) the economics of processors has changed dramatically, pushing computing into specialized domains that are largely distinct and will provide fewer benefits to each other. Moreover, because this cycle is self-reinforcing, it will perpetuate itself, further fragmenting general purpose computing. As a result, more applications will split off and the rate of improvement of universal processors will further slow.
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LEPIN 16016 Flying Neitherlands (via orf.at).
