1,117 Matching Annotations
  1. Jul 2018
    1. I have the option to link the main link for the bookmark to the Hypothesis link for “all annotations” on the source, but I’m thinking most readers will want to go directly to the source to read more.

      Again, when I click what I think is a link to take me to "all annotations available in the source" or even to the source, all I get is a black framed version of this block quote. Really confusing...

    2. all annotations in the source in the open for the bookmark

      Maybe I'm confused as to what you are intending with this example, but when I click on "here" in the line below--or anywhere in the entire block, I'm just taken to a black framed version of the quote.

  2. Jun 2018
    1. Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters

      Unbelievable that I can still follow NZ politics 26 years after leaving Wellington. Ha!

    1. We report the presence of EBV latent membrane protein 1 (LMP-1) in 93% of MS and 78% of control brains, with a greater percentage of MS brains containing CD138+ plasma cells and LMP-1–rich populations.

      This is interesting!

    1. as many libraries begin to function as publishers themselves, it would be interesting to see discussion around how they fit into the existing publishing ecosystem.

      Involve LPC more! I'd love to help!

    1. As the article says, 'It’s not so lonely at the top if you bring others along.' If you build a support network for others, it will support you as well."

      Good advice!

    2. Having an intern is actually more work (you need to carve out a lot of time to give feedback), and you are there to teach and guide. It’s not about what they are bringing to you.

      So true, but so rewarding!

    1. In the last two centuries, there has been remarkable progress in the field of gastroenterological surgery, including the curative resection of cancers, replacement of failed organs through transplantation, increased safety of undergoing major surgeries and decreased operative morbidity through developments in minimal access surgery.

      Transplantation and organ failure

    1. Together, these experiments elucidate a novel molecular pathway in which APP regulates, via protein-protein interaction with KCC2, GABAAR mediated inhibition in the hippocampus.

      testing

  3. May 2018
    1. It should be noted that the number of female founders (and employees) is also significantly higher in social enterprises. According to the State of Social Enterprise Survey (2013), 38% of social ventures are led by women.

      So interesting! Annotating on Alex's annotation here.

    2. social enterprises have not only been at the forefront of ‘external’ innovations through new solutions to societal problems;

      Learn more about this.

    1. Sally Lehrman, senior director of the journalism ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, leads its signature Trust Project, a complex international collaboration that she began building in 2015 to strengthen public confidence in the news through accountability and transparency.

      Check out this shout out from the American Press Institute.

    1. Sally Lehrman at The Trust Project.

      Connecting mentions/citations to their sources through annotation.

    2. we will pose some questions that consumers might wonder about a news organization and its people, not specific to a story. This last group of questions borrow heavily from the work on transparency and trust being done by others, including Joy Mayer at Trusting News and Sally Lehrman at The Trust Project.

      Connecting mentions/citations to their sources.

    1. Joy Mayer is a community engagement strategist based in Sarasota, Fla. Her work focuses on the continually evolving notion of audience engagement in journalism — how communicators can foster two-way conversations, collaborate with their communities and know who they’re serving and how well they’re doing it.

      Check out this shout out from the American Press Institute!

    1. China’s ‘social credit system’ monitors citizen behavior and punishes them with travel bans, bans from four and five star hotels, preventing them from sending children to expensive schools, and throttling internet speeds.

      This is so Black Mirror.

    1. That is why one company, Schumacher Homes of Akron, Ohio, has a fresh new design on offer: a house with an open floor plan, with its kitchen, dining area, and living room all flowing into one another. But then, behind the first kitchen, lies another. A “messy” kitchen. There, the preparation for or remainders from a meal or party can be deposited for later cleanup, out-of-sight, out-of-mind.

      This is the most #irstworldproblem I've heard of today...

    1. Thanks in large part to the massive popularity of “The Great British Baking Show,” Brits now, as Ptak herself has noted, have developed a taste for cakes beyond “stale sponges.”

      Great British Baking Show changes society!

    1. There’s a few less apostles in Australia’s Twelve Apostles Marine National Park. In 2005, one of the largest and most intricate of the offshore sea stacks crumpled into dust in front of a watching family

      It's still very impressive to see.

    1. Set on a space station in the 23rd century, the show revolves around galactic politics, epic alien battles, and secret agendas from a variety of factions

      Maybe I will watch more of it this time around.

    1. We’re now in a transformative stage as new tools such as ‘commenting’ emerge that can support a collective reading experience. These innovations allow readers to ‘engage’ with content in new ways.

      Or better yet--in-line annotating! Open interoperable standards-based annotation, of course.

    1. While many libraries worldwide provide internet access and other services, libraries in cities and towns across Finland have expanded their brief to include lending e-publications, sports equipment, power tools and other “items of occasional use”. One library in Vantaa even offers karaoke.

      Karaoke? Well, sign me up!

  4. Apr 2018
    1. FOLIO applications are language agnostic. In other words, apps can be written in any programming language. Apps include standard ILS modules such as circulation, cataloging, and acquisitions. Libraries and vendors can build on existing apps, or develop new apps that extend the library into areas such as campus ERP, research administration, and more

      Test annotation for Kaveh.

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    1. The observer can be the teacher or facilitator depending on the objectives of the activity. Group dynamics are usually presented in simulations in which there are a group of participants of three or more, while one participant acts as the nurse, the others are active observers (Jeffries, 2012).

      This is interesting!

    1. The tectonic shift from print culture to the digital age is transforming practices of reading and writing, turning a once solitary endeavor into an interactive, dialogic, and multimedia activity. The shift is also affecting scholarly practices, albeit more gradually.

      Test annotation.

    1. At one point, Pérez told me the name Jupyter honored Galileo, perhaps the first modern scientist. The Jupyter logo is an abstracted version of Galileo’s original drawings of the moons of Jupiter. “Galileo couldn’t go anywhere to buy a telescope,” Pérez said. “He had to build his own.”

      Cool name/logo story!

    2. At every turn, IPython chose the way that was more inclusive, to the point where it’s no longer called “IPython”: The project rebranded itself as “Jupyter” in 2014 to recognize the fact that it was no longer just for Python.

      Such an interesting progression!

    1. The school additionally offered multiple programs that both supported students in the college application process and helped educate parents about the process.

      There was no mention of such programs at Capital. Did they not exist, I wonder? Or just not exist for the kids in the study?

    2. having relationships with faculty, teachers, or mentors in a STEM field can bolster students’ sense of belonging in these fields

      Learn more here about mentoring after high school and how it affects career growth.

    3. we found advanced math and science courses advertised but not actually offered and specialized STEM programs eroded or discontinued within a few years of inception.

      Some interesting data points in this article.

    4. So I started thinking, Where can I do this [kind of math] all the time? … I started talking to my dad and he was like, “Well engineering is somewhere where you could do this … if you want to do the math all the time, then go into engineering.”

      It's curious that the Calculus teacher didn't recognize Katie's excitement about the problem or that different types of careers using Calculus were not part of the classroom discussions.

    1. For women of color and women, in general, such developmental relationships are critical to navigate their career, and according to Eby, Allen, Evans, Ng, and Dubois (2008), mentoring aids in socialization into the organization and in career development.

      Mentoring as essential to career growth and success.

    1. Yet, across the country, 2 in 5 high schools don't offer physics, according to an Education Week Research Center analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights.

      How widely known is this figure?

    1. he odd result of this is that we have trending topics in networks like Twitter and Facebook, where the vast majority of updates are short and trivial, but we don’t have easily-explorable tags, hashtags or trending topics for articles and stories that are longer and more substantive.

      Another critical point.

    2. It’s striking that we likely have author information provided as metadata on the majority of articles published today, but almost none of our reading tools expose this information in useful ways, or let us search or explore using the metadata.

      This is a really really important point.

  5. arxiv.org arxiv.org
    1. n this note we determine thetorsion subgroup of the additive group of (1.1) in the case whereLhas rank 2, thatisXis a set of two elements, andcis a prime number

      Wow!

    1. Of particular interest are the lower central series: G1=GG1=GG_1 =G, Gi+1=[Gi,G]Gi+1=[Gi,G]G_{i+1} = [G_i, G], i≥1i≥1i \ge 1, and, for a fixed prime number p, the Zassenhaus series (see [7, 8]).

      This is interesting.

    1. one of my jobs was to run the mimeograph machine for their newsletter.

      I had to use the mimeograph to make handouts for the Ohio State Computer Center as my student job. Taping up the stencils was fun...

    2. Most scholars of hypertext of the time pointed to Vannevar Bush's 1945 article "As We May Think" as an important precursor to the Web and as providing important guidance for necessary development. Bush's model of hypertext was much richer than that of the early Web. Among other things, he envisioned people who would put together articles (or "trails") by finding a sequence of useful pages in different sources, annotating those pages, inserting a few pages of their own, and linking it all together. While the Web had "live links", those links were limited to the original authors of the text, so The Web provided essentially none of the features necessary for Bush's more collaborative model.

      Great summary.

  6. Mar 2018
    1. not noticing when a little word like “the” gets repeated, as it was three times in the previous paragraph

      Wow. Remarkably hard to find even when you are told they are there!

    2. “Without your critics, you’ve not got a career,” he said.

      Good thing to note.

    1. In what appears to be a first, a U.S. court is forcing a journal publisher to breach its confidentiality policy and identify an article's anonymous peer reviewers.

      Wow. This could have a chilling effect on reviews for certain subjects.

    1. Nicotine is composed of a pyridine ring and a pyrrolidine ring, synthesized from two separate branches as demonstrated in Figure S1

      This is interesting!

    1. So imagine my delight when, with very little preparation or context, I paid a visit to one of the sites developed by the art collective Meow Wolf, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

      I can't wait to get to go see it one day!

    1. Aerospace companies are in a heated race to create a hypersonic plane to replace the SR-71 Blackbird. Though retired in 1990, the SR-71 still holds the record as the fastest plane ever built, achieving a top speed of 3,540 kmh (2,200 mph).

      The SR-71 Blackbird is so awesome!

    1. Earning $27 million it is only $18 million away from passing  2012's The Avengers as the highest-grossing superhero film of all-time, domestically.

      It's totally going to pass the Avengers. I for one will go again if it looks like it is slow to pass...

    1. In 2008, Stephen Hawking, the renowned physicist who wrote A Brief History of Time, presided over the unveiling of a clockmaker’s monument to time. The Corpus Clock, created by the inventor and horologist John C. Taylor, does not look like a clock. Its shiny gold disk features 60 notches that radiate from its center. Lights race around the edges of the disc, and a spherical pendulum swings slowly beneath it.

      This clock is so strange--you won't be able to stop staring at it...

    1. While I was pregnant, I found out that women love to recount their birth experiences. It didn’t matter if it was a new mom I ran into at my doctor’s office or the grandmotherly cashier at the grocery store: Everyone had a birth story to share.

      Never tell another woman your birth story. It's not a competition. It's always the worst when it is happening to you. And if you had a good experience--shut up about that too.

    1. No one can say Sudan, a northern white rhino, didn’t live a full life. He was the subject of countless works of art. Famous actresses and heads of state traveled across the globe to meet him. He even had his own Tinder profile.

      So sad.

    1. n our project, images needed to be checked in nearly 25% of papers ready for acceptance at our cancer research journal, requiringa time commitment of about 80 h for the initial checking during our study period of ~10 months (Table 1). Of these papers, 35.5%were found to have issues and the authors were contacted (Table 2). After the papers were returned, the images needed to bechecked again to determine whether problems were resolved and, if not, returned to the authors. We did not tr

      Test annotation.

    1. Reconstructions from sedimentary records show that canyons undergo flushing infrequently (102- to 103-year time scales), and on passive margin canyons, this might occur only during periods of glacially lowered sea level and direct sediment supply (7, 12).

      This is interesting!

    1. We’re officially entering the final stretch leading up to Avengers: Infinity War because Marvel just released a brand-new trailer for the movie, revealing tons of new footage and details in the process.

      Avengers: Infinity War!--Can't wait!

    1. Theremins are unusual in that you can play them without touching them—instead, two antennae poking out of a central console detect changes in the magnetic fields surrounding them, and transform these changes into a kind of eerie, keening sound.

      Never heard of a theramin before.

  7. www.wired.com www.wired.com
    1. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (June 22)

      Could this actually be good? Hope so!

    2. Avengers: Infinity War (May 4)

      Absolutely cannot wait to see this one!

  8. www.wired.com www.wired.com
    1. What should a superhero movie be? What can it be? With Black Panther, we finally have an answer worthy of our time.

      Totally agree!

    1. That’s because Mars, lacking an inherent magnetic field, does not channel the sun’s energetic particles to its poles.

      This is interesting!

    1. "But if I show you a green A, you hate it. I've had to change the colours of fonts on my power point slides in the past when giving presentations to synaesthetes."

      I can't even look at pictorial depictions that run opposite to mine--gives me a headache. Completely different ones don't bother me though.

    2. time-space variant is one of three types that has only been properly described within the last few years.

      So I guess I wasn't really meant to find out until now, because, if I had googled it years ago, I might not have found it.

    1. When she thinks of a date she feels herself travel along the calendar to the right spot. She has a separate, hoop-shaped calendar for days of the week. Both have been part of her life for as long as she can remember.

      I never travel along, but I do see the spot and I can point to it regardless of what year it's in.

    1. When someone mentions a year, I see the oval with myself at the very bottom, Christmas day to be precise. As soon as a month is given, I see exactly where that month is on the oval. As I move through the year, I am very aware of my place on the oval at the current time, and the direction I am moving in.”

      This is very similar to what I experience!

    1. there’s something unusual about the core-mantel boundary under Africa that could be having an important impact on the global magnetic field,”

      Hard to believe nobody has inserted a Vibranium joke here...

    2. Some 1,800 miles beneath southern Africa is an area called the African Large Low Shear Velocity Province, a heavy region that might be pressing down on the hot liquid iron at the Earth’s core that is responsible for generating the magnetic field in the first place.

      The African Large Low Shear Velocity Province. Someone could have named that after themselves and didn't...

    1. Overwintering stinkbugs navigate like nine-year-olds in bumper cars, making as much noise as possible and banging into everything in sight: walls, doors, windows, humans.

      What an amazing analogy!

    2. A class of pesticides known as pyrethroids, which are used to control native stinkbugs, initially appeared to work just as well on the brown marmorated kind—until a day or two later, when more than a third of the ostensibly dead bugs rose up, Lazarus-like, and calmly resumed the business of demolition.

      OMG! Zombie Stinkbugs!

    1. Many publications propose a flow-pattern identification method for two-phase flow in a microchannel,3–83. J. Shao et al., Exp. Therm. Fluid Sci. 85, 240 (2017).4. J. López et al., Exp. Therm. Fluid Sci. 76, 126 (2016).5. G. Alcan et al., Flow Meas. Instrum. 51, 55 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2016.08.0056. P. Zhang and H. W. Jia, Chem. Eng. J. 306, 978 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2016.08.0347. M. H. Maqbool, B. Palm, and R. Khodabandeh, Exp. Therm. Fluid Sci. 46, 120 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2012.12.0028. Z. Yang et al., Appl. Therm. Eng 120, 654 (2017). and visual observation has proved the preferred method for identifying gas–liquid two-phase flow patterns.

      This is interesting!

  9. Feb 2018
    1. Early inventories of emission sources show that electric power generation in India is mostly done using a polluting fossil fuel like coal and to some extent oil. Oil and petroleum products for transport are also mostly imported.

      This is interesting!

    1. To use a GIAN-encoder for cancer cell identification, a cell-specific ligand is necessary. Aptamers are oligonucleic acid molecules that have specificity and affinity to a wide range of targets that vary from small molecules to cancer cells.46,47 In contrast to antibodies, aptamers are cost-effective chemical antibodies that can be chemically modified and synthesized using an automatic DNA synthesizer, ensuring reproducibility from batch to batch. Many aptamers have been selected by cell-SELEX methods.48–50

      this is interesting.

    1. In this study, a new colloidal gold quick card (TAB quick test card) was developed with the aid of colloidal gold immunochromatographic assay. This test card showed more rapidness and convenience for rapid detection of A. acidoterrestris in apple juice.

      Test Annotation

    1. Most genetic pest controls for V. inaequalis rely on gene-for-gene interactions [3], such that the infection outcome is determined by the interaction between the products from a specific locus in the plant (the main resistance R gene) and a gene from the pathogen (avirulence gene).

      Test Annotation

    1. Apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) is one of the most important fruit crops in temperate regions. As a long‐lived and woody perennial tree species, apple is affected by numerous environmental stresses, leading to the economic losses.

      Test annotation

    1. Environmental abiotic stresses such as drought, heat, cold and high salinity affect plant growth, productivity and distribution.

      Test annotation.

    1. Some bacteria will swim toward chemicals that suggest a potential reward, such as food.

      Interesting that we could influence the behavior of bacteria.

    1. In addition, around 144 million people weredisplaced by disasters in between 2008 and 2014, and many of them were exacerbated byclimate change with increasing frequency and intensity.

      This is interesting.

    1. "We don't just have a skeleton," said one of the nodosaur researchers involved. "We have a dinosaur as it would have been."

      No matter now many times I read about this--I still think it's so cool!

    1. In the 21st century, at the beginning of the post-industrial era, with the development of global trade and rapid rise in economic transactions, complex and competitive environments are formed (Dobbs 2014). By identifying opportunities and threats, organizations can improve their reactions in these competitive environments. One of the structural factors in any organization is Human Resources (HR). Employees are one of the critical assets for organizations to sustain their competitive advantages by utilizing specific knowledge and skills (Ahmed et al. 2013). Performance appraisal (PA)

      Testing deep linking.

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    1. We also see glimpses of other actors, like Woody Harrelson's Star Wars universe debut as Tobias Beckett and Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) as Qi'Ra.

      Curious that Han Solo never really got his own theme music...

    1. A 2015 study of self-checkouts with handheld scanners,

      I wonder if this happens more with the handheld scanners? I feel like the folks in the front of the store keep a pretty good handle on things (most days).

    1. An episode in the third season of the TV show “Black Mirror” portrays a world in which people spend nearly all their time using their phones to rate virtually everyone else on a five-star scale.

      Black Mirror made me think about rating systems. Similar to the book The Circle and user surveys.

    1. Indeed, perhaps the most obvious thing to send (though it’s a bit macabre) would just be whole cryonically preserved humans (and, yes, they should keep well at the temperature of interstellar space!). Of course, it’s ironic how similar this is to the Egyptian idea of making mummies—though our technology is better (even if we still haven’t yet solved the problem of cryonics).

      Interesting idea. This would tell aliens a lot about us.

    2. right now there are just four spacecraft outside our solar system (and another one that’s headed there), and there are under 100 spacecraft more-or-less intact on various planetary surfaces (not counting hard landings, melted spacecraft on Venus, etc.). And at some level a spacecraft itself is a great big “message”, illustrating lots of technology and so on.

      A larger collection than I thought.

    3. This is their ‘afterlife’!” They successfully transmitted some essence of their life to a world far beyond their own.

      This is a very interesting way to think about it. Maybe we need to make sure we leave similar such traces behind.

  10. Jan 2018
    1. They focus on what happens at the time of the trip or stay, eventually taking into account the preparations and ensuing memories. On the other hand, these works do not pay attention to the way in which the instantaneous experience falls within the individual’s life trajectory, or in which way it depends on a previous tourist experience and influences subsequent experiences1.

      This is interesting!

    1. Swastika Night has some obvious successors, notably George Orwell’s 1984, published 12 years later, Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle, and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

      Hopefully, she'll join these others and become more widely known.

    2. Burdekin was born in 1896 in Derbyshire, England. Her parents wouldn’t allow her go to Oxford, as her brothers had, so she married an Olympic rower, had two daughters, immigrated to Australia, started writing, left her husband, and then returned to England. The 1930s were her most fecund creative period, when she wrote 13 novels, six of which were published.

      Amazing that I've not heard of her. Need to learn more.

    1. Although there are reports on CHH peptides in other crustacean taxa such as Armadillidium vulgare (Isopoda)22,23, Daphnia pulex (Cladocera)24 and Daphnia magna15, investigations beyond decapods have remained scant and the sequences of CHH/MIH/GIH genes in other crustacean taxa have remained elusive.

      This is interesting!

    1. Climate science details the threats that climate change poses to the livelihoods and well-being of present and future human generations and ecosystems, while policy approaches increasingly recognize the growing social risks of climate-change-driven vulnerabilities. 8

      This is interesting!

    1. However, most of the accretion onto SMBHs is expected to be heavily obscured by dust and gas, making the identification of the most obscured AGN population very challenging, even in the deepest X-ray surveys.

      This is interesting!

    1. The object in question, called 2002 AJ129, will miss Earth by about 2.6 million miles (4.2 million kilometers).

      We live in a dangerous neighborhood.

    1. Thus, despite recognising that all applicable international law must be assessed to determine the legality of new weapons, the ICRC has still failed to include human rights in this determination.

      test annotation

    1. These neurons express multiple itch receptors including MrgprA3, MrgprC11, and histamine receptor 1, and correspondingly respond to multiple pruritogens. Deletion of MrgprA3+ sensory neurons significantly inhibits itch behavior not only in acute itch conditions14, but also in chronic itch conditions13,15, demonstrating that this neuronal population is crucial for mediating itch sensation. However, whether the chronic itch response requires the activation of Mrgprs in MrgprA3+ neurons is unknown.

      This is interesting!

    1. I know you’re worried about access to airports. Good news: every airport in the world, especially those in the United States, serve as gateways to Hell. Where do you think Chili’s Too comes from? Who do you think trains TSA workers? It is especially easy to get from Hell to LaGuardia. Most people can’t even tell they’ve made the trip.

      This is true.

    1. Instead, we envision a long, hard-fought victory in which the scientific evidence debate should occupy the foreground. We propose that not all sceptics are of the entrenched/obstinate kind, and that many sceptics sincerely share the values of transparency, critical freedom, and inclusivity associated with serious scientific enquiry.

      this is interesting!

    1. They are grid corrections, as he refers to them in a new photographic project: places where North American roads deviate from their otherwise logical grid lines in order to account for the curvature of the Earth.

      What? Crazy!

    1. While we are the only hominids to walk the Earth today, this year genomic evidence proved that the DNA of some people contains traces of Paleolithic trysts between humans and other Homo species, like the Neanderthals and the Denisovans.

      The Denisovans? Never heard of them...

    1. Virtual Reality isn't anything new but its use in the law courts system isn't mainstream...yet

      If I could be a juror in virtual reality, that is something I could finally get behind!

    1. he gained the most attention around dinnertime, when he threatened a nuclear holocaust in North Korea.

      This kind of thing barely makes the news anymore. What has happened to us?

    1. We now have influential partisan media outlets that help people believe what they want to believe, irrespective of factual accuracy. Inconvenient facts are labeled “fake news” and disregarded. In a nutshell, we no longer inhabit a shared reality, and as a result, major problems are going unaddressed because a segment of Americans rejects inconvenient truths

      This is such an incredible statement about the situation we are in--like saying we have gone through the looking glass...

    1. there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation seraphically free From taint of personality,

      This sounds like where we are now with alt-facts...

    1. Centered on a handful of days Nanjiani's future spouse was in a medically induced coma, it's a wonderful comedy about what happens when you get thrown into a life-or-death situation with the parents of someone you just started dating.

      This was one of the best movies I saw last year!

    1. In that sense, he observed, the biggest surprise in the relationship between China and the United States is their similarity. In both countries, people who are infuriated by profound gaps in wealth and opportunity have pinned their hopes on nationalist, nostalgic leaders, who encourage them to visualize threats from the outside world. “China, Russia, and the U.S. are moving in the same direction,” he said. “They’re all trying to be great again.” 

      This is what we have to contend with.

    1. Mary was accused of being a witch — luckily for her, a bit before Salem — and was taken to Boston, tried, and found not guilty. This was not good enough for her townsfolk in Hadley, Massachusetts, a mob of whom strung her up anyway. But the neck-breaking drop had not yet been invented, so they just hauled her up like a flag, and she dangled around up there all night, and when they came to cut down the body in the morning, lo and behold, she was still alive!

      Interesting story!

  11. Dec 2017
    1. And though warehouse jobs were physically taxing—not an obvious fit for older bodies—recruiters came to see Camper­Force workers’ maturity as an asset. These were diligent, responsible employees. Their attendance rates were excellent.

      How is this not more widely known?

    1. Lazy rivers, while still relatively rare in higher education, are becoming a staple at public universities known for big-time college sports and vibrant social scenes.

      Seriously? How have I never heard about them. Too much...

    1. Yesterday’s Delta Boeing 717 flight DL1943 from Detroit to Atlanta became a 22 minute trip from Detroit to Detroit when there was a bird discovered flying around the cockpit. And it wasn’t the first time a bird flew around the cockpit that day on that plane.

      What the heck?

    1. If the South Bronx were a state, it would have the second highest rate of drug overdose in the country after West Virginia.

      Wow! Very sad and disturbing.

    1. The contemporary university is a strange chimaera. It has become an institution for teaching undergraduates, a lab for medical and technological development in partnership with industry, a hospital, a museum (or several), a performance hall, a radio station, a landowner, a big-money (or money-losing) sports club, a research center competing for government funding, often the biggest employer for a hundred miles around, and, for a few institutions, a hedge fund (“with a small college attached for tax purposes,” adds one wag).

      What the university has become...

    1. Once upon a time a magazine editor asked Twitter what to do with a 5-year-old who was despondent over a Mars rover that could never come home. John Rogers responded: “Hang on a minute.” A couple of hours later, he sent this.

      This is amazing!

    1. eatured searchlight-style spotlights visible up to 16 miles away, a to-scale Hogwarts model in the garage, and a 19-foot illuminated piano on the lawn.

      Could JK Rowling sue for royalties?

    1. The Alexandria scenes are shot in an actual housing development called the Gin Property — anyone who moves in must accommodate the show’s filming schedules and needs, like the unsightly metal wall that surrounds the subdivision in order to protect Rick and the gang from invaders.

      Wow, that's amazing!

    1. a power lie: its purpose is not to convince the audience of something that isn’t true but to demonstrate the power of the speaker.

      Exactly!

    1. Scientists across the world were asked to submit their images to the 2017 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition and they sent in more than 1100 images – our highest amount so far.

      These are so cool!

    1. Starting Tuesday, any time someone uploads a photo that includes what Facebook thinks is your face, you’ll be notified even if you weren’t tagged.

      This is eerily like in the book The Circle where facial recognition is done over all photos and video on the web--including CCTV. No more secrets.

    1. Maryland’s initiative has led to the switch to open educational resources in 66 new courses at 14 institutions across the state. New York has provided $8 million toward the adoption of OER in public colleges. And in 2016 the California Legislature ponied up $5 million to create zero-textbook-cost degrees at the state’s community colleges.

      "ponied up" is the official term?

    1. Peer review prior to data collection and analysis is tasked with suggesting improvements to problems in study methodology. This enables authors to improve their study design. Subject to an in-principle acceptance, authors will be able to conduct their research in the knowledge that their research will be published, regardless of the results, and with the confidence that their study methodology has been independently reviewed. This new approach will also offer authors the flexibility to analyze and report unexpected findings.

      Wouldn't annotation be a great way to get feedback on these results?

    1. Today, scientists' success often isn't measured by the quality of their questions or the rigor of their methods. It's instead measured by how much grant money they win, the number of studies they publish, and how they spin their findings to appeal to the public.

      Really unfortunatel

    1. The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation’s top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases — including “fetus” and “transgender” — in official documents being prepared for next year’s bu

      We're so suffering from the death of a thousand cuts, that these directives barely register anymore...

    1. The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to dismantle landmark rules regulating the businesses that connect consumers to the internet, granting broadband companies power to potentially reshape Americans’ online experiences.

      The day the internet died...

    1. The domain of personalised medicine, in particular, is overflowing with possibilities for innovation [3].

      Learn more about this.

    1. By the early 1970s the top five scientific publishers—Reed-Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell, Springer, and Taylor & Francis—published about 20 percent of all journal articles.

      Even Wired calls them the big five, but only lists four!

  12. Nov 2017
    1. some of the rats they skinned and stuffed for the collections of the Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History, where they will join stuffed rats from 100 years ago.

      Was this really necessary?

    1. A stamp in the passport, Portrait, a place I must visit without ever feeling it necessary to return, though I might want to wander out now and then to drop in on Joyce’s poetry, roughly contemporary with the first novel, those curious “pomes,” wearing their spats and dandyish nosegays, occasionally taking up a putative lute to croon promises of theoretical love to unconvincing maidens in the windows of canvas-flat donjons.

      This is relevant.

    1. Speaking in an interview with Astra Taylor for the film Examined Life (2008), Slavoj Žižek makes a plea for rediscovering poetry in the real of nature (the real, that is, in the Lacanian sense of the term, that which resides in a state beyond or outside of human knowledge or comprehension), in its trash or waste, its chaos, its playing out of mathematical formulae and physical, chemical and biological processes.

      This is interesting!

    1. traditional Klingon armor has been jettisoned in favor of elaborate, colorful clothing that looks like it would be much more at home in a Star Wars movie than a Star Trek television show.

      Or a Shakespearean drama or on a Christmas Tree...

    1. ll told, Mona’s men killed 134 Japanese nationals by day’s end, many of them butchered with long dag-gers and beheaded. Alerted by a distressed phone call from an escapee, the Japanese police apparatus, with backing from military units stationed in Taiwan, responded with genocidal fury. Aerial bombardment, infantry sweeps, and local mercenaries killed roughly 1,000 men, women, and children in the ensuing months

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    1. helped to stabilise the shell in strong currents, as hasbeen suggested for some spiriferids with a wide hinge line[11],allowingtheshellto“float”abovethesubstrate.Ifthisinterpretation is correct, this would be an interesting adap-tation of a preexisting morphology to accommodate

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    1. Modern brachiopods, even lingulides and craniides, have neither fast diductors nor adductor muscles capable of often repeated effort, so if the strophomenides used this system, a radically different muscle physiology must be inferred.

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    2. The genus Leptaena is one of the most widespread and taxonomically diverse strophomenide brachiopods, with more than 50 named species worldwide and many more occurrences placed in open nomenclature. The temporal distribution is also notable in that the genus extends from the Middle Ordovician (Llanvirn) (e.g., [1]) into the Lower Devonian (Emsian) (e.g., [2, 3]),

      Test annotation.

    1. Recent successes of deep learning techniques in solving many complex tasks by learning from raw sensor data have created a lot of excitement in the research community.

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    1. Page level note.

      Good to publish.

      Needs new figures.

    2. Participants indicated the location of their pruritus bycircling the affected area on a depiction of the ocular region.

      test three.

    3. The presence and characteristics of chronic ocular itch wereassessed with a questionnaire.

      Second test.

    4. In this cross-sectional study, we enrolled subjects from TempleUniversity’s ophthalmology and optometry outpatient clinic. AllEnglish-speaking individuals over the age of 18 were eligible forparticipation. Individuals were approached without any priorknowledge of ophthalmologic conditions or comorbidities

      Test annotation for Cactus.

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    1. Urban Residents’ Religious Beliefs and Influencing Factors on Christianity in Wuhan, China

      Testing for John

    1. Compared to 2005, in 2012, the PR principle failed to track sectoral CO2 flow, and embodied CO2 in import and interprovincial export increased, with manufacturing contributing the most; manufacturing should take more carbon responsibilities in the internal linkage, and tertiary sectors in the net forward and backward linkage, with sectors enjoying low carbonization in the mixed linkage; inward net CO2 flows of manufacturing and service sectors were more complicated than their outward ones in terms of involved sectors and economic drivers; and residential effects on CO2 emissions of traditional sectors increased, urban effects remained larger than rural ones and manufacturing and tertiary sectors received the largest residential effects.

      This is interesting!

    1. A new study by Poole et al. (2) employed the latest advances in molecular biology to elucidate whether combined use of TCS and TCC in personal care products has a detectable effect on the human gut and oral microbiome, yielding a vast data set that is interesting and instructional in several ways.

      This is interesting!

    1. Then Dan Bloomfield reviews what makes nature-based interventions in mental health successful. Follow-ing this there are two accounts of using green spaces in mental health services, from Australia and the UK.

      This is interesting.

    1. The beauty of the almond in bud, blossom, and fruit gave motif to sacred and ornamental carving.

      This is interesting!

    1. On a pair of ordinary glasses is a square of fine lines near the top of one lens, where it is out of the way of ordinary vision.

      Holy Moly--this is Google Glass he is describing!

    1. he onboard altimeters measured the distance to the instantaneous sea surface with a precision of about 2 cm and helped to better understand global climate change and weather phenomena such as El Niño

      This is interesting!

    1. Modulating these many pathways requires alteration of expression of a diverse array of genes, which takes place via the coordinated action of various stress-responsive transcription factors as well as chromatin-associated factors. While there is some understanding regarding the role of transcription factors, enzymes catalyzing covalent histone modifications and chromatin remodeling complexes in responses to various abiotic stresses in plants (Sahoo et al., 2013; Kim et al., 2015), the role of histone chaperones in stress response remains enigmatic

      This is interesting!

    1. Indeed, part of what sets Coates apart from other journalists or public intellectuals is that he tells his audience that historians’ works need to be consulted if they want to understand American history. Like any good high-school math student, Coates shows his work, illustrating which history books lead him to his conclusions.

      This would seem like a no brainer to me. We should demand it of journalists and public intellectuals.

    1. Donohue syndrome and Rabson-Mendenhall syndrome usually have homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations in the IR gene, and patients with these diseases have severe insulin resistance together with various symptoms, such as growth retardation, occasional hypoglycemia from infancy, intrauterine growth retardation, and low birth weight [3–6]

      This is interesting!

    1. the EMP Commission shut down on September 30, after the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security didn't seek funds from Congress to continue its operation.

      This is just crazy.

  13. Oct 2017
    1. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has continued to work on a diplomatic solution, telling CNN on Sunday he would continue to engage with North Korea “until the first bomb drops.”

      Jeez, well that's not really comforting...

    1. Astronomers have now seen and heard a pair of dead stars collide, giving them the first glimpse of what they call a “cosmic forge,” where the world’s jewels were minted billions of years ago.

      Super cool!

    1. We are in a moment when telecommuting seems to be falling out of favor. The conventional wisdom about remote work is shifting.  Once held up as the future of work, telecommuting is now viewed as antithetical to the needs of today’s agile organizations.

      Not sure this is a wide-ranging trend.

    1. Earlier this month, NASA issued a press release stating that it’s likely that our solar system has a ninth planet—even if it’s proving difficult to find.

      Can't wait to find out!

    1. Further, there are reports that ResearchGate has stripped out metadata from papers, rebranded them, and altered links in papers to point to their own hosted versions of papers, rather than the original journal. If true, these represent direct copyright infringements that go beyond the mere hosting and encouraging of copyrighted materials.

      Whoa!

    1. More specifically, we ask what it is that students, working in a material space while talking together in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments, make of the spatial resources, what their spatial modes of acting within it are, and what kinds of political actions regarding space and talk eventually emerge.

      This is interesting!

    1. It will support the development of a symposium at Simmons College to focus on the theme of how libraries and allied institutions can serve as community hubs for information literacy and access.

      Like so!

    1. We are pleased to announce that Steinn Sigurdsson has assumed the Scientific Director position. He will collaborate with the arXiv Program Director (Oya Y. Rieger) in overseeing the service and work with arXiv staff and the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) in providing intellectual leadership for the operation.

      Great news!

    1. British air carrier Monarch Airlines is completely grounded, canceling all flights and stranding flyers across Europe after entering bankruptcy.

      Fly an established airline, people...

    1. For example, when asked to describe cell phone use habits, one participant stated, “I usually go on my phone if I’m bored sitting there in class. Or during homework I’ll take little Twitter breaks.” Another student said,

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    1. Musk revealed the company’s planned next-generation rocket will make it possible to build a moon base — and the name he picked is just his latest homage to beloved science fiction, in this case, the British cult classic Space: 1999.

      One of the all time best shows! Changed my life!

  14. Sep 2017
    1. Every hour you spend on Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, or in another feed that pushes entertainment onto you, you lose some of that ability to go out and entertain yourself.

      This is a huge loss...

    2. You don’t go to Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, or Instagram because you’re looking for something, rather, you want to see what it has found for you.

      This is a critical distinction.

    1. In space, bacteria “shapeshifts” to defend itself against antibiotics, experiments on board the International Space Station (ISS) have revealed. The discovery potentially poses a big problem for future space travel—as long duration missions happen more frequently, we will need antibiotics to treat sick astronauts. But if space bacteria is able to quickly and effectively develop resistance, common infections could become deadly.

      This is alarming!

    1. One of the main spots the large rays frequent is around a set of stairs that descend into the ocean. It’s where local fishermen toss back any unwanted fish and so the area has become a harbor hot spot where many sea creatures stop by hoping to find an easy meal.

      Wow!

    1. The UV radiation rates emanating from the host star in the TRAPPIST-1 system are large enough to have caused the planets to have hemorrhaged large amounts of water over time. The inner planets of the system, TRAPPIST-1b and -TRAPPIST-1c, could have lost more than 20 times the amount of water contained in Earth’s oceans over the course of 8 billion years.

      Following the developments on the planets in the TRAPPIST system are so interesting. It's hard to believe that the examination of exoplanets is so recent!

    1. a lack of version control over the vast majority of the research literature makes actually ‘adapting’ papers to include post-publication comments is impossible.

      This is also key.

    2. The problems here stem from a lack of comprehensiveness, interoperability, and critical mass uptake as the de facto platform for PPPR. The result of this is a mess of different platforms having different types of commentary on different articles, or sometimes the same ones, none of which can be viewed easily in a single, standardised way. That doesn’t seem very efficient.

      This is really key.

    1. No, that wouldn’t make Irma a “category 6” hurricane, because there is no such thing.)

      They might need to make one...

    1. for most people, it’s definitely not essential; you don't need Siri to function the way you need your phone. Now that Apple has an assistant it trusts, it has to teach people how to use it.

      This is true.

    2. 375 million people use Siri every month.

      Wow!

    1. The Association of Zoos and Aquariums, which represents more than 230 animal care facilities in the U.S. and abroad, requires all of its members to practice an annual disaster preparedness drill to keep their accreditation.

      Had not even thought about this!

    1. These analyses offer a theory-motivated method of gauging collaborative search efficiency beyondthe analysis of mean RTs

      This is interesting!

    1. Stigler correctly predicted thatthe problem would be how to constrain the use of this private information rather thanhow to defend against its acquisition in the course of law enforcement

      This is interesting.