Mastodawn

baursafi Sep 19, 2023

Allen Downey Sep 5, 2023

The principal components of human dimensions are height, girth, torso length, hands and feet, shoulders, head, pelvis, and ears.

New post at Probably Overthinking It: https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2023/09/04/how-principal-are-your-components/

How Principal Are Your Components?

This post is an offshoot from Chapter 1 of Probably Overthinking It, which is available for pre-order now! In a previous post I explored the correlations between measurements in the ANSUR-II datase…

Probably Overthinking It

baursafi Aug 30, 2023

It is becoming a good tradition for our family to bring our friends together and walk 5K to increase awareness and fundraise to support research in finding cure to #oligodendroglioma.

Take a walk with us on September 16th.

https://give.oligonation.org/event/oligo-nation-5k-2023-bay-area/e506683

Oligo Nation 5k 2023 - Bay Area

baursafi May 4, 2023

Dave Spector May 4, 2023

Our team at #Apple is hiring for a Software Engineering Author position
In San Diego! You’d get to work on really interesting projects with some super smart and nice people — you can find out more about the role here:

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200469460/developer-publications-software-engineering-author

Developer Publications - Software Engineering Author - Careers at Apple

Apply for a Developer Publications - Software Engineering Author job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.

baursafi Apr 26, 2023

Al Jazeera (unofficial)Apr 26, 2023

More than 1,600 homicides, rapes, kidnappings and lynchings reported in first quarter of 2023, BINUH chief says.
UN’s new Haiti envoy warns of ‘alarming’ surge in violence

UN’s new Haiti envoy warns of ‘alarming’ surge in violence

More than 1,600 homicides, rapes, kidnappings and lynchings reported in first quarter of 2023, BINUH chief says.

Al Jazeera

baursafi Apr 26, 2023

Zack Subin 🏳️‍🌈Apr 26, 2023

The U.S. is an outlier in failing to make road safety improvements. Pedestrians and people of color bear the brunt due to street design that prioritizes moving cars through neighborhoods rather than people living in them.

#urbanism #StreetsForPeople

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/26/opinion/road-deaths-racial-gap.html

Opinion | American Road Deaths Show an Alarming Racial Gap

Why dangerous streets are concentrated in minority neighborhoods, and what to do about it.

The New York Times

baursafi Apr 16, 2023

GC Stone Apr 16, 2023

AI generated seahorses. Medium: oil painting. Style: Gustav Klimt.
#aiart #aigenerated #dalle2

baursafi Apr 1, 2023

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky Mar 31, 2023

Please join us this spring on Zoom for a series of #GlobalHistory talks. I am co-organizing it with Dr. Anshu Malhotra at UC Santa Barbara, and we are excited about this brilliant lineup of speakers and topics. We start at 12:30 pm PDT (3:30 pm EDT, 9:30 pm CEST) every Wednesday.
#histodons #history #middleeast #turkey #germany #india #pakistan #ghana #nigeria #zambia #southafrica #brazil #migration

baursafi Mar 22, 2023

Daniel Swain Mar 21, 2023

Remarkable storm event continues to unfold near southern coast of the SF Bay Area. Rapidly deepening low pressure w/multiple centers of rotation has been slinging bands of heavy rain

baursafi Feb 19, 2023

Eugene McParland 🇺🇦Feb 19, 2023

russian invaders are trashing books from the library of the Pryazovskyi State Technical #University in the temporarily occupied Mariupol

“The occupiers are throwing away books from the library collections of Priazovskyi State University. Then they will be disposed of. Just like the Nazis did during the German occupation of the city during World War II. - #Mariupol City Council informed on Telegram.

Source🔗 https://www.weareukraine.info/russians-trash-books-from-mariupol-universitys-library-funds/

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState