Links for September 20, 2020
Posted on Sunday, Sep 20, 2020 7:08 PM
- ↪︎ Super fun show, and the effects have been really good.
LOVECRAFT COUNTRY: Grant Walker - VFX Supervisor - Framestore - The Art of VFXThe Art of VFX - ↪︎ Terrifying, honestly.
J. Robert Oppenheimer Explains How He Recited a Line from Bhagavad Gita--"Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds"--Upon Witnessing the First Nuclear Explosion | Open Culture - ↪︎ i love the style of this shop
Gallery of Tost Coffee Shop / Gabriel Castro MOBIO - 6 - ↪︎ Unicode's answer to Base64. Contribute to qntm/base65536 development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub - qntm/base65536: Unicode's answer to Base64 - ↪︎ Wow this is fascinating.
Matt Blaze: A Cryptologic Mystery - ↪︎ Lots of great new accessibility features.
New Apple accessibility features in iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and watchOS 7 - ↪︎ New blood assays and brain scans are among the biomarkers revolutionizing clinical trials and changing the way researchers think of the disease. They may soon change the way patients are treated as well.
Seeking a better test for Alzheimer’s - ↪︎ It all starts with a community teeming with yeasts and bacteria — but what’s really happening? Scientists peer into those jars on the kitchen counter to find out.
Microbial secrets of sourdough - ↪︎ Machine learning has found uses in fields as diverse as particle physics and radiology, and its influence is growing. But so is the understanding of its limits.
Why some artificial intelligence is smart until it's dumb - ↪︎ I didn’t realize how quickly peas germinate.
Boxlapse: Pea, Tomato, Basil, and Cucumber plants grow in time lapse | The Kid Should See This - ↪︎ Beautifully serene bridge in Japan with an interesting story.
Saruhashi Bridge – Otsuki, Japan - Atlas Obscura - ↪︎ Has the world become more or less free? To find out, this graphic highlights the changing state of democracy in 167 countries since 2006.
Infographic: Visualizing the State of Democracy, by Country - ↪︎ With the current supply chain of cobalt under scrutiny, companies and governments are striving to find new sources of cobalt beyond the Congo.
Ethical Supply: The Search for Cobalt Beyond the Congo - ↪︎ Who’s the richest of them all? Here's a look at the 25 wealthiest families in the world, and the companies that kickstarted their empires.
Ranked: The World's Richest Families in 2020