Current Entries
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08/24/2022    Perfluorocubane Is (As You Would Expect) Weird:

              https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/perfluorocubane-you-would-expect-weird

              "[I]t is predicted to have the ability to hold a free electron ...
               because of the C-F bond properties - all the electron density is
               being pulled towards the F atoms, so the center of the [C] cube
               really has room for one to sit in there without running into a
               lot of interference. ... If you would like to get a bit more
               technical, there are eight sigma-star orbitals from those C-F
               bonds all pointing into the center of the cage and overlapping,
               and giving you effectively a stabilized vacant orbital there."

08/16/2022    Solar powered headphones:

              https://www.adidasheadphones.com/us/en/rpt-02-sol-rising.html

08/12/2022    The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles:

              https://matt-rickard.com/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-makefiles

08/12/2022    The behavior of supercritical matter is described by just
              two parameters - "[1] the heat capacity and [2] the
              length over which waves can propagate in the system":

              https://phys.org/news/2022-08-extreme-conditions-high-temperature-pressure.html

              The researchers "found that there is a fixed inversion
              point between the two where matter changes its physical
              properties - from liquid-like to gas-like. They also
              found that this inversion point is remarkably close in
              all systems studied[.]"

08/12/2022    Korean Supreme Court provides clarity on web scraping:

              https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=1ae8c0a9-660b-45b7-9ef6-030f387d6e29
              https://www.yulchon.com/en/resources/publications/legal-update-view/32426/page.do

              "On May 12, 2022, the Korean Supreme Court held in Case
               No. 2021Do1533 that scraping publicly available data from
               a competitor'''s website does not violate the asserted laws,
               including the Copyright Act and the Act on Promotion of
               Information and Communications Network Utilization and
               Information Protection[.] ... This Korean decision is
               comparable and in line with the decision of the United
               States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in hiQ
               Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp. on April 18, 2022[.]"

08/02/2022    Why Does Caffeine Exist?

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzshAqowsyI

Earlier Entries
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07/##/2022    https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/07/motd.txt
              https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/07/index.html

06/##/2022    https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/06/motd.txt
              https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/06/index.html

05/##/2022    https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/05/motd.txt
              https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/05/index.html

04/##/2022    https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/04/motd.txt
              https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/04/index.html

03/##/2022    https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/03/motd.txt
              https://srirangav.github.io/motd/2022/03/index.html