Two Brazilian women scientists sequenced the genome of the coronavirus in record time – just 2 days after the 1st case appeared in Brazil. They used experience & technology from their studies of the Zika virus to make it happen.
- Ester Sabino
- Jaqueline Goes de Jesus Wikipedia page is missing!
10 Most(ly dead) influential programming languages.
The other day I read 20 most significant programming languages in history, a “preposterous table I just made up.” He certainly got preposterous right: he lists Go as “most significant” but not ALGOL, Smalltalk, or ML. He also leaves off Pascal because it’s “mostly dead”. Preposterous! That defeats the whole point of what “significant in history” means.
Solved: How the 'Monstrous' Iguanas of the Bahamas Got So Darn Big.
With their seabird poop-fertilized plants, the iguanas on Allen Cay were ingesting double the nutrients, in the form of nitrogen, that their peers were. And they were growing bigger because of it (…)
LettuceMeet, a Doodle alternative.
Corona round-up, cont’d.
- Coron-A-Mat
- Coronavirus Poop Calculator
- COVID-19 Open-Source Helpdesk
- An interactive visualization of the exponential spread of COVID-19
- walterra’s COVID-19 Austria spreadsheet
When’s the toilet paper emoji coming, Unicode consortium? Oh, we already got it… my bad 🧻
The Color Dot Font is a font composed entirely of colored circles.
In the Color Dot Font, each Latin character is replaced with a circle of a certain color. For example, an “a” character is represented by a blue circle, a “t” by a yellow circle, and so forth. Available as a TTF file, the font can be installed and used on any computer operating system.
Terminal is everything you need to build fast modern websites hosted on IPFS.
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i thought twitter deserved to see this video of a chameleon washing its hands pic.twitter.com/FyDVllbToY
— keat💞 (@keatxngrant) March 23, 2020
Using Zoom? Here are the privacy issues you need to be aware of.
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The most surprising Unix programs.
Only a couple of these programs are indispensable or much used. What singles them out is their originality. (…) Originators of nearly half the list (…) were women, well beyond women's demographic share of computer science.
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