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I believe that study hadn’t accounted for wine drinkers in general having much better health to start off with. Once that was taken into account moderate wine consumption also showed a health impact
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Coal from Fife to Holland, and they brought back tiles. https://www.shepherdroofingandslating.co.uk/history-fifes-co... …
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Hmmm. The "City of London "is the "square mile", the but around St Paul's. Technically the 2012 Olympics were held at Stratford, what was once known as Stratford-atte-Bower. A…
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As per usual this has also been YouTubed: An hour long lecture on the Three Hares by a Dr Sue Andrew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z212jG-OtDQ The Three Hares Project. Photographin…
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Further articles on this: New Scientist: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2082809-the-three-hares... and someone's passion project book: http://www.chrischapm…
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I was curious as to whether Ada had met Florence Nightingale, and it appears they were good friends. Are there any visualisation packages called Florence?
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IBM: I've Been Mugged
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Wasn’t Web 3.0 supposed to be about using structured data in websites?
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The Royal Society has a series of talks about Energy and the Grid several weeks ago. I’m subscribed to the YouTube channel, it seems they published this quietly. I’ll have to comb through their back c…
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I imagine when batteries are more prevalent there will be far more competition in providing grid stabilisation services. A second order affect I imagine, once there are scores of other systems availab…
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A simple rule is to post all videos by 3Blue1Brown to HN
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Can the demand for bitcoin ever be sated? Given the CAPEX cost of the GPUs, and the OPEX of the electricity someone has probably worked out the rates of return for each of the crypto currencies. If th…
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This, to me, sounds like the zombie apocalypse we were promised.
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Don't forget the Norwegian ship tunnel too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stad_Ship_Tunnel …
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This reminds me of an ArsTechnica story from some years back, $500 for some rugged steel pedals for a flight simualator: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/want-hig…
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The article’s essence appears to me that that is unlikely to happen.
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Scapegoating the poor? Who would have thought.