- The UK village that lost its cheese (BBC) Reviving the small dairy farm cheese production in Cheddar, England.
- How I hacked ALL displays in my high school district to play Rick Astley (The Next Web) This is so f%$#ing awesome.
- Finally, a Practical Use for Nuclear Fusion (WIRED) Fusing plasma is being used to test materials that have to resist the heat of reentry.
- Not Saying It Was Aliens, but ’Oumuamua Probably Wasn’t a Nitrogen Iceberg… (SciTech Daily) I still think that it was not an alien probe.
- Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data (WIRED) Amazon is a morass of hacks, bribery and corruption. The cynic in me believes that this is because they make more money doing this.
- A Brief Scientific History of Glass (Smithsonian Magazine) A nice survey of the state of knowledge about Bronze Age glass making.
- How Delaware Sold the Greatest, Most Insidious Financial Secrecy Tool the World Has Ever Known (CrimeReads) An excerpt from AMERICAN KLEPTOCRACY: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History
- Cuba’s Vaccine Could End up Saving Millions of Lives (Jacobin) Completely publicly funded, and may make a strong case for government ownership of pharmaceutical development and manufacturing, and against the profit driven pharma.
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