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11/20/2024 Yelloway One:
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-banana-resistant-tr4-black-sigatoka.html
"Researchers have developed a banana plant [named Yelloway
One] that is resistant to both fusarium tropical race 4
(TR4) and black sigatoka, two of the most destructive
diseases for bananas.
...
Yelloway One is still a prototype and is currently being
grown in a greenhouse in the Netherlands. The plants will
soon be sent to regions in the Philippines and Indonesia,
where TR4 and black sigatoka have caused significant damage.
Field trials will determine how well Yelloway One performs
in a natural environment."
@21:57
11/20/2024 Transition zone theory of crystallization:
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-chemist-traditional-views-crystal-growth.html
https://www.cell.com/matter/abstract/S2590-2385(24)00443-0
@21:37
11/18/2024 7 tips for better microwaving:
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/how-to-improve-microwave-performance/
@12:56
11/18/2024 A joke in approximating numbers raised to irrational powers:
https://www.andreinc.net/2024/11/18/a-function-to-approximate-raising-small-numbers-to-small-irrational-powers
@12:37
11/14/2024 How to write a great first line for a novel:
https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/how-to-write-first-lines-in-novels-that-grab-readers
@17:22
11/14/2024 A sequel to Vampyre Story is in the works:
https://adventuregamehotspot.com/interview/2811/a-vampyre-story-lives-bill-tiller-and-sarunas-ledas-share-a-bats-tale
@12:17
11/10/2024 Are Wax Paper and Parchment Paper Interchangeable?
https://www.bookofjoe.com/2024/11/my-entry-12.html
"No, ... [w]hile parchment paper can do everything ... that
wax paper can do, it's not true the other way around. For
example, you should not bake with wax paper."
11/10/2024 Keyboard size and layout guide:
https://www.keychron.com/blogs/news/keyboard-size-layout-buying-guide
11/10/2024 Differences between a DIMM and a CUDIMM / CSODIMM:
https://www.servethehome.com/what-is-different-with-a-cudimm-or-csodimm-micron-crucial/
11/08/2024 Imaging Wigner molecular crystals:
https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/11/07/scientists-capture-images-of-electron-molecular-crystals/
11/08/2024 Reduce Zoom's bandwidth:
https://evanhahn.com/little-trick-to-reduce-zoom-bandwidth/
"If you're on a call with a bunch of people and you want to
reduce your data usage, here's a simple trick: put Zoom
into a mini floating thumbnail window. ... Of course, it has
a big disadvantage: you can only see one person in a tiny
box!"
11/08/2024 Solar neutrino fog may have been detected:
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/161
11/06/2024 Supersolids:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-spot-quantum-tornadoes-twirling-in-a-supersolid-20241106/
11/06/2024 Orange Blue Moon:
https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/afs-8-101-908/
11/05/2024 A 27-Month Check-In on the Copyright Claims Board:
https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2024/10/a-27-month-check-in-on-the-copyright-claims-board-ccb-guest-blog-post.htm
"Of the 989 claims filed, there are only 819 total
dispositions, meaning 170 claims are still pending. ... Of
the 819 total dispositions, 391 (48%) were dismissed during
claims review, 153 (19%) were not served, 82 (10%) were
withdrawn, and 91 (11%) had defendants opt out. That means
717 claims (88%) were disposed of on procedural grounds,
without a ruling on the merits. ... In total, the claimant
received a settlement, a default judgment, or a final
judgment in their favor in only about 100 cases, or 12
percent of the 819 dispositions (excluding the cases that
are still pending)."
11/05/2024 THAT COMPANY WHOSE NAME USED TO CONTAIN HTML SCRIPT TAGS LTD:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/06/companies-house-forces-business-name-change-to-prevent-security-risk
11/04/2024 Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts:
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-paper-likelihood.html
"The research team found that paper that was the most thin
was unlikely to cause a cut because it tended to buckle
instead. Also, thick paper rarely led to a cut because its
surface was spread over too large an area. That left paper
that is neither too thick nor too thin, like the kind that
is used in newspapers or dot-matrix printers - the two types
tied for the title 'Most likely to cut skin.'
Other culprits were Post-It notes, printed magazines and
office paper. Some that were less likely to cut include
tissue and photo paper. They noted that to cause cuts, the
paper had to be angled slightly."
11/04/2024 DB48X:
https://48calc.org/
"DB48X is a modern scientific calculator in the spirit of
the Hewlett-Packard HP48X, featuring a complete,
from-scratch reimplementation of the Reverse Polish Lisp
(RPL) programming language."
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_48_series
https://www.swissmicros.com/product/model-dm32
https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm42
11/02/2024 80 years of FEM:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11831-022-09740-9
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