Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about.
- What the world's most accurate clock can tell us about Earth and the cosmos. "It would take 15 billion years for the clock that occupies Jun Ye's basement lab at the University of Colorado to lose a second—about how long the universe has existed."
- Alan Shepard smacked golf balls on the Moon — and now we know where they landed. "When the Apollo astronaut said his second shot went "miles and miles and miles," that was a bit of an exaggeration."
- You Need to Use Hope like a Club to Beat Your Opponent. Kim Stanley Robinson on Climate Change and Fiction.
- A novel definition of life and its implications to cybernetic systems. "Perhaps the most fundamental puzzle in biology—"What is life?"—is addressed in a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Oleg Abramov."
- Types of Masks and Respirators. The CDC has updated its mask guidelines. Wear the best one you can!
- Why The World Should Be More Than A Bit Worried About India's Nipah Virus Outbreak. At least it's not spread by aerosol droplets like COVID-19, but with a 70 percent mortality rate it is something to worry about.
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