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Eric the half a bee? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_the_Half-a-Bee

"Scientists today identify seven virus families that cause the majority of colds: rhinovirus, coronavirus, influenza and parainfluenza virus, adenovirus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and, fi…

A link to the mentioned Atlas of the Underworld: http://www.atlas-of-the-underworld.org/depth-top/ …

Courtesy of slashdot: https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/10/21/1744218/data-sci... …

Wolves can help in this case too.

So is this a case of terraforming Iceland?

Indeed the little ice age of the middle ages is what made Greenland uninhabitable. Birch is a pioneer species, they produce millions of seeds a year, they chased the retreating ice cap as melted north…

I’ve tweaked Gmail filter settings so some Meetup invites appeared as a phone alert, ie nearly everything else filtered into no alert. London Meetup fill up within minutes that many data science ones …

Isn’t Ghostery an ad-blocker? I can’t see anything else with that name. All the references in this thread are great tips, so I’d like to track this one down too.

No Hololens events in London, is that by design?

As ever HackerNews discussed this ten years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43118 (Tichy’s karma is just 110 short)…

Tailings at mines are often mined for other minerals once their values rises enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailings#Reprocessing …

Not everyone realises that'+' is a valid character in an email address, at least not when I tried this several years ago.

So where is the most efficient place for solar panels, given that the solar panels are heated by the sun, they could be coated to reflected IR. A cooler climate could help heat be convected away. High…

So the most number of humans in space is 11, which has happened a number of times.

One use of cheap power is to do very energy intensive operations. Egypt powered fertiliser plants from the Aswan dam, and Iceland uses hydropower to smelt aluminium. Saudi Arabia is building a huge al…

I experienced this with a Trivial Pursuit quiz game in London. Three times I was doing well and it rebooted. Is this standard practice in betting to avoid a payout?

Indeed, grim as it may be, acid attacks are better than gun crime.

Personally I think this may be down to the inability to get hold of guns. Knife crime is up as well, and knives and acid are far easier to get than guns. I have no evidence for this, and no doubt peop…

The 2012 Paralympic Games London were a huge triumph. However London doesn't seem innately supportive to people in wheelchair users, I hardly ever see them in central London, and not at the many …

Is there no way to read this without being a Social Media prisoner? Facebook delights not me, nor twitter either.