Massive link dump
Haven't done one of these in a while, so there's a lot to disgorge:
Every episode of every Star Trek series will be available via Netflix streaming beginning in July.
Unfortunate ad placement (I forget where I got this, probably FB)
jpmassar posted a pointer to some questions from the Calif. 5th grade science exam; here's the Harvard Entrance Exam from 1869. Latin, Greek, history, geography, diverse math subjects.
Satisfied People Are More Likely to Vote: "That came as a surprise to Flavin and fellow researcher Michael Keane, a former graduate student at the University of Notre Dame, who originally theorized that satisfied people might be less likely to vote or participate in other political activities because they would not feel much of a desire for change compared to dissatisfied people."
FTP Is 40 Years Old
Sorting Algorithms As Dances: "I guarantee that you have never seen anything quite in the same league as the videos made by Sapientia University -- they are simply crazy but in the nicest possible way. They folk dance their way though bubble sort, shell sort, insertion sort and selection sort. Very, very weird but you find you can't but help checking that they are doing it right. Now anyone want to try quicksort?" Funny geek humor in the slashdot comments.
Skype For Android Can Leak Data To Malicious Apps: if I've grasped the summary, basically your account info is stored in such a way that any other app can read it. UPDATE: Skype has released a new version that they say fixes this.
US Meat and Poultry Is Widely Contaminated With Drug-Resistant Staph Bacteria: "Nearly half of the meat and poultry samples -- 47 percent -- were contaminated with S. aureus, and more than half of those bacteria -- 52 percent -- were resistant to at least three classes of antibiotics [...]"
ncbirofl: Before you trust the five-second rule, read this
A clock that eats flies: the insects are trapped on flypaper and then scraped into a chamber where they are, um, converted into fuel.
Giant rabbit fossil found in Spain: "We'd better not risk another frontal assault -- that rabbit's dynamite!"
You know those huge shipping containers? Ten thousand of them are lost at sea every year. Researchers "sent a robotic sub to investigate a shipping container that was lost in the Monterrey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in 2004. What's happened to the sunken shipment in the past seven years? It's become a warren for a variety of aquatic life on the ocean floor, providing a new habitat for species that might otherwise not be attracted to the area."
King Crabs Invade Antarctica
Shell-crushing crabs haven't been in Antarctica, Earth's southernmost continent, for hundreds or thousands, if not millions, of years, McClintock said. "They have trouble regulating magnesium ions in their body fluids and get kind of drunk at low temperatures."
[...]
Antarctic clams, snails and brittle stars, because of adaptation to their environment, have soft shells and have never had to fight shell-crushing predators. "You can take an Antarctic clam and crush it with your hands," McClintock said. They could be the main prey for these crabs, he said.
[...]
And, now that the king crabs are on the Antarctic slope, some fishermen are anxious to head to Antarctica as well. McClintock has already gotten an email from a fisherman asking when he can come.
But the icy waters and dangerous logistics make fishing difficult, McClintock said. "There is a TV show called the 'The Deadliest Catch,'" he said. "Well this is the deadliest, deadliest catch."
Every episode of every Star Trek series will be available via Netflix streaming beginning in July.
Unfortunate ad placement (I forget where I got this, probably FB)
jpmassar posted a pointer to some questions from the Calif. 5th grade science exam; here's the Harvard Entrance Exam from 1869. Latin, Greek, history, geography, diverse math subjects.
Satisfied People Are More Likely to Vote: "That came as a surprise to Flavin and fellow researcher Michael Keane, a former graduate student at the University of Notre Dame, who originally theorized that satisfied people might be less likely to vote or participate in other political activities because they would not feel much of a desire for change compared to dissatisfied people."
FTP Is 40 Years Old
Sorting Algorithms As Dances: "I guarantee that you have never seen anything quite in the same league as the videos made by Sapientia University -- they are simply crazy but in the nicest possible way. They folk dance their way though bubble sort, shell sort, insertion sort and selection sort. Very, very weird but you find you can't but help checking that they are doing it right. Now anyone want to try quicksort?" Funny geek humor in the slashdot comments.
Skype For Android Can Leak Data To Malicious Apps: if I've grasped the summary, basically your account info is stored in such a way that any other app can read it. UPDATE: Skype has released a new version that they say fixes this.
US Meat and Poultry Is Widely Contaminated With Drug-Resistant Staph Bacteria: "Nearly half of the meat and poultry samples -- 47 percent -- were contaminated with S. aureus, and more than half of those bacteria -- 52 percent -- were resistant to at least three classes of antibiotics [...]"
ncbirofl: Before you trust the five-second rule, read this
A clock that eats flies: the insects are trapped on flypaper and then scraped into a chamber where they are, um, converted into fuel.
Giant rabbit fossil found in Spain: "We'd better not risk another frontal assault -- that rabbit's dynamite!"
You know those huge shipping containers? Ten thousand of them are lost at sea every year. Researchers "sent a robotic sub to investigate a shipping container that was lost in the Monterrey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in 2004. What's happened to the sunken shipment in the past seven years? It's become a warren for a variety of aquatic life on the ocean floor, providing a new habitat for species that might otherwise not be attracted to the area."
King Crabs Invade Antarctica
Shell-crushing crabs haven't been in Antarctica, Earth's southernmost continent, for hundreds or thousands, if not millions, of years, McClintock said. "They have trouble regulating magnesium ions in their body fluids and get kind of drunk at low temperatures."
[...]
Antarctic clams, snails and brittle stars, because of adaptation to their environment, have soft shells and have never had to fight shell-crushing predators. "You can take an Antarctic clam and crush it with your hands," McClintock said. They could be the main prey for these crabs, he said.
[...]
And, now that the king crabs are on the Antarctic slope, some fishermen are anxious to head to Antarctica as well. McClintock has already gotten an email from a fisherman asking when he can come.
But the icy waters and dangerous logistics make fishing difficult, McClintock said. "There is a TV show called the 'The Deadliest Catch,'" he said. "Well this is the deadliest, deadliest catch."