Bit late today, for obvious reasons 
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- Dead Reckoning - Disaster at Honda Point - ”There is a noise that, for a Navy captain, may well be the worst sound imaginable—worse than the boom of cannon fire, the whistle of a missile, or the whoosh of a torpedo. That noise is the long, piercing scrape of metal against rock. It’s the sound, quite simply, of everything going wrong.” The story of the night in 1923 when a good-sized portion of the US Navy ended up on the rocks
- Magnetism May Have Given Life Its Molecular Asymmetry - ”The preferred ‘handedness’ of biomolecules could have emerged from biased interactions between electrons and magnetic surfaces, new research suggests.” Chirality FTW!
- Europe spent €600 million to recreate the human brain in a computer. How did it go? - ”It took 10 years, around 500 scientists and some €600 million, and now the Human Brain Project — one of the biggest research endeavours ever funded by the European Union — is coming to an end. Its audacious goal was to understand the human brain by modelling it in a computer.” They didn’t manage it, but they did get an awful lot done.
- How did Pompeii’s victims really die? - ”The destruction of Pompeii, Italy, is one of the most well-preserved catastrophes in human history. But scientists still disagree on how exactly thousands of Roman people died during those two fateful days in 79 C.E.” Either way, it sounds like it was rather unpleasant
- Odyssey-A-Day Mini Readings - ”Daily homemade dramatic mini-readings of Emily Wilson’s Odyssey translation.” One of those cool things that came out of lockdown is Prof. Wilson reading, in homemade costumes, from her translation of Homer’s Odyssey. Her translation of the Iliad comes out in a couple of weeks
- A history of Ireland through the eyes of its oldest woman — Máirín Hughes - ”Last September, the oldest woman in Ireland climbed into the back of a model T Ford the same age as herself — 108 years old — and took a turn around the Phoenix Park in Dublin, providing, as she went, a personal history of the State.” She died last week at the age of 109.
- Figures in the Sky - ”How cultures across the World have seen their myths and legends in the stars.” Cool interactive site for learning about the patterns different cultures have discerned in the night sky
- The Royle Family at 25 - ”25 years after it first aired, the Royle Family is a landmark of popular working-class culture on screen — the inventive masterpiece of its brilliant but troubled creator, Caroline Aherne.” Great piece about the series, how it came to be, and the life of Ms. Aherne. It’s only on iPlayer for a few more weeks, so time for a rewatch I reckon
- Hacking my android phone to drive my car - HT to vetran for pointing me to this one: ”This blog post is an overview journey of me and friends making an affordable and safe self driving car system… What really do you need to make an ADAS system that keeps you in lane and adjusts speed of the car based on lead vehicles?”
- Photographer captures eerie graveyard of North Korean schooners scattered along the Russian coast - ”Photographer Natalya Bulkina travelled to the place locals call the Pirates Graveyard - a long stretch of deserted beach several hours away from Vladivostok, close to where the borders of Russia, North Korea and China nearly join each other. This is one of the areas in the Far East of Russia where North Korean poachers’ wooden boats end up after getting hit by storms.”
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