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"In most time-lapse videos of the night sky, the camera is fixed relative to the Earth, to the horizon, and — as they do to our senses, should we take notice for long enough — the stars in the sky move seemingly inexorably from east to west. Instead, though, Brummel turned the frame around, keeping the camera fixed on a spot in the sky, and, moreover, rotating the camera to match the sky’s orientation. Thus, as it more truly would be from outside our planet, we see the Earth’s motion, the horizon rotating as the Earth spins."

"It turns out, though, that when your reality is based on actual reality, it’s a lot more stable and resilient, because you don’t have to be so vigilant about what you’re going to filter out."

"An artist used new scientific data to paint the features of a Denisovan, whose faces have been lost for tens of thousands of years."

"Bigwala was once illegal, and only two master practitioners remained."

"Rivaroxaban, adalimumab, empagliflozin: Someone actually has to come up with generic drug names like these."
(2019 story)

A recent-ish issue of The Flash made a reference to the "Flush Man" name that the comic was published under in Argentina back in the 1980s.

Decentralized web project.

"Daylight Computer (DC1) is a new kind of calm computer, designed for deep work and health."
Touchscreen tablet and stylus. "LivePaper" LCD display with similar goals as eink: readability without backlight and in sunlight, etc. Android-based

"With cloud storage providers closing -- and Amazon's cloud service problems continuing -- users are left to wonder what happens to their data when they can't access it in the cloud."