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Webbiking. Reply · 26 Share. posted 5d ago by Jason Kottke. Scientists have repurposed a 50-year-old drug to revolutionize bone marrow transplants. “Today, agonizing searches for a matched donor are largely a thing of the past” and “the drug cut rates of acute and severe complications by upwards of 80%”.
Meet Aerospace Engineer Judith Love Cohen - kottke.org
WebMay 14, 2019 · Meet Aerospace Engineer Judith Love Cohen. Judith Love Cohen was, at various times in her fascinating life, an engineer who worked on the Pioneer, Apollo, and Hubble missions, an author & publisher of books about women in STEM and environmentalism in the 90s, a ballet dancer with the New York Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company, an advocate for better treatment of women in the workplace, and ...
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WebOct 19, 2009 · Life Magazine archive, online for free. Every issue of Life Magazine until the end of 1972 is available on Google Books for free. This archive joins Google’s already impressive archive of millions of photos from Life. (via footnotes of mad men ) posted Nov 18, 2008 by Jason Kottke.
The Holodomor: When Stalin Starved Ukraine - kottke.org
WebApr 7, 2022 · In the early 1930s, desiring the bountiful wheat harvests of its farmlands to sell to Europe and wanting to subjugate its people, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin carried out a genocide in Ukraine that killed millions and hid it behind the guise of food shortages. It’s known as the Holodomor. In Ukraine, it’s become known as “the Holodomor ...
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WebA solar prominence (also known as a filament when viewed against the solar disk) is a large, bright feature extending outward from the Sun’s surface. Prominences are anchored to the Sun’s surface in the photosphere, and extend outwards into the Sun’s hot outer atmosphere, called the corona.
Color photo of The Beatles in 1957 - kottke.org
WebJan 19, 2010 · Color photo of The Beatles in 1957. Well, not so much The Beatles as The Quarrymen, a band formed by John Lennon and some schoolmates that was the precursor to The Beatles.(via @brainpicker). early color photography; photography; The Beatles
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Webposted 6h ago by Jason Kottke · via @davidzipper.bsky.social. E-bike subsidies should be more widespread, following the lead of Colorado ($450 back on a bike purchase). “More than half of all trips taken by Americans are less than three miles. E-bikes open up these kinds of trips to a greater diversity of cyclists.”.
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Webposted 5d ago by Jason Kottke. Scientists have repurposed a 50-year-old drug to revolutionize bone marrow transplants. “Today, agonizing searches for a matched donor are largely a thing of the past” and “the drug cut rates of acute and severe complications by upwards of 80%”.
Bad design in action: the false Hawaiian ballistic missile alert
WebJan 16, 2018 · Focusing solely and narrowly on the “bad UI’ design in the Hawaii alert accident would be like focusing solely and narrowly on the F-15 misidentification in @scottsnook’s causal map in “Friendly Fire”. Here’s the map he’s referring to, along with a link to a discussion of the F-15 incident described by Snook in the context of ...
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