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SICK is an independent, thoughtful magazine by chronically ill & disabled people.
SICK is committed to elevating the voices of sick & disabled people by publishing essays, features, poetry, visual art, interviews, and more. Our aim is to increase representation of sick & disabled people in publishing and the arts, and to challenge the harmful stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding disability.
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The Salpa Line trail.
Built at the beginning of the 1940s in preparation for another war, The Salpa Line spans more than 1000km along Finland’s eastern border. It contains a total of 728 field fortifications either made from concrete or excavated from rock.
“I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?”
A rabbit hole to disappear in…
Lists of people who disappeared include those whose current whereabouts are unknown or whose deaths are not substantiated.
Many people who disappear are eventually declared dead in absentia. Some of these people were possibly subjected to forced disappearance, but there is insufficient information on their subsequent fates.
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IBM Apologizes For Firing Computer Pioneer Lynn Conway For Being Transgender... 52 Years Later.
You’ve likely never heard of 82-year-old computer scientist Lynn Conway, but her discoveries power your smartphones and computers. Her research led to successful startups in Silicon Valley, supported national defense, and powered the internet.
The Power of a South Pole Sunrise After Six Months of Darkness.
Astrophysicist Robert Schwarz has spent more winters at the southern tip of the world than any human in history.
You can handle the post-truth: a pocket guide to the surreal internet.
Yes, things on the internet are confusing and chaotic and weird right now. That’s because the goal of the bad actors we’ve covered is to deliberately manufacture confusion and make you feel apathetic about what’s real vs. what’s fake. My hope is that exposing some of these techniques makes them a little less mysterious and a little less surreal. You can handle the post-truth. Because you can learn the truth about how these so-called “post-truth” movements work.
Use decision records already!
Decision records also serve as historic documentation when someone questions the decision. You can revisit the argumentation and check why the decision looks stupid now.
Bulletin A is a weekly summary of predictions from the latest Earth Orientation model. It includes the projected difference between Earth rotation angle (UT1) and UTC, which in turn determines when a leap second is needed. The notable thing about the latest Bulletin A is the factor 0.00000 (…) This implies that unless something wild happens, we are very unlikely to have a leap second in the next few years.