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Twin adventurers are cleverly testing modern vs. historic gear. “If they went on an expedition, and Ross wore modern kit while Hugo wore historic replicas, any difference in performance…could be attributed solely to the gear, not genetics.” https://www.carryology.com/insights/how-the-turner-twins-are-mythbusting-modern-gear/
How the Turner Twins Are Mythbusting Modern Gear

Modern adventure apparel should outperform heritage gear, right? Well, the genetically identical Turner twins put this theory to the test...

Carryology

The notion of a broken clock being sometimes right is based on a gross misunderstanding of what information is.

A clock that always shows the same time is never right, even in the moments of the day when the time happens to be what it shows, because you don't gain any information about what time it is by looking at the clock.

This reasoning also applies to chatbots. If you can't tell whether what you have been given is useful information unless you alreay know the information, then you haven't been given useful information.

"Spaceships: The first frontier. Across the '70s and '80s, complex and colorful spaceships were the primary element that publishers everywhere thought to shoehorn onto any science fiction book cover.

The diverse visual style of all that spacecraft is impossibly to fully sum up, but in this post, we're going to try regardless."

https://70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/cool-spaceships/

#Art #Space #SpaceShips

Cool Spaceships

Spaceships: The first frontier. Across the '70s and '80s, complex and colorful spaceships were the primary element that publishers everywhere thought to shoehorn onto any science fiction book cover. The diverse visual style of all that spacecraft is impossibly to fully sum up, but in this post, we're going to

70s Sci-Fi Art
Hyperion Author Dan Simmons Dies From Stroke At 77 - Slashdot

Author Dan Simmons, best known for the epic sci-fi novel Hyperion and its sequels, has died at 77 following a stroke. Ars Technica's Eric Berger remembers Simmons, writing: Simmons, who worked in elementary education before becoming an author in the 1980s, produced a broad portfolio of writing that...

Three Ways to Solve Problems
L: https://andreasfragner.com/writing/three-ways-to-solve-problems
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345125
posted on 2025.12.21 at 09:35:29 (c=0, p=3)
Three ways to solve problems — Andreas Fragner

Deciding not to solve a problem, or solving a different one, can also be a viable solution.

Andreas Fragner

If the formerly great American newspapers (New York Times, Washington Post) were really doing their jobs, it would look like this:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/life-inside-the-undocumented-underground

Life Inside the Undocumented Underground

During President Donald Trump’s second term, dramatic raids staged by the Immigration...

TPM - Talking Points Memo
Extremely disappointing when there’s no audible representation of #Baltimore during any performance of the US national anthem. #MLSCup
the Cornell University Library is now online, for free, no registration or login, just there, 76,474 books now tucked in at the Internet Archive
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