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12 pull-ups. Almost forgot even that. It’s been a disheartening day.
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Pets Exhibit Behavioral Issues With Humans Home In Pandemic
This is an interview with our cats' therapist (the animal behaviorist that we consulted when Bonus Cat and Dr. Wily were having Serious Conflicts back when we first got Dr. Wily).
This is a good point:This is one of the problems that isn't quite a problem yet, that's going to be a problem when people go back into the world — dogs and cats that have never spent more than five minutes alone. What's going to happen when their people suddenly go back to work full time?
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Hey, new episode of Small Findings! Your burning questions about autocorrelation, LLC, and what's across the weird bridge answered!
There's also a companion blog post about autocorrelation.
If you have the time, I'd really like to know if the autocorrelation explanations in the podcast and/or weblog make sense to you. deathmtn@fastmail.com. It's always hard to know if an explanation works because you, the explainer, already know what's being explained.
And finally, I'm on a new podcast, Rehydrate. We're just chattin' about the sci-fi boot The Three-Body Problem and its sequels, so check it out, if you like those podcasts where groups of people are talkin' 'bout media! -
Good explanation of what Ant did, and why the Chinese government shut down its IPO. Some of it was just smacking down a business guy who criticized them, but this is actually the kind of financial and tech regulation I’d like to see here. It’s sound and consumer-protecting, even if it does come from a power struggle.
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OH on kid’s class video call: “I’m grateful for a place called Vermont.”
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Nearly 100 coronavirus cases are reported within two days, many among universities
The colleges need to be shut down. The city council started to discuss shutting down indoor dining, then this slimy move was pulled:The measure asking that the city manager meet with surrounding communities to coordinate a response was blocked by councillor Tim Toomey, who exercised his right to table the order until the next council meeting, Monday.
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I’ve been tracking how much time I spend on things for a few months now. It’s handy to notice that some of activities I really resent like dealing with real estate don’t actually take up nearly as much time as I think. It turns out I resent them because of stress, not time. It’s also useful to validate that the things you do every day add up to dwarf the things you do in dramatic four-hour bursts infrequently.
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The documentary about Pepe's co-opting by the right is on PBS until tomorrow night. Seeing the 4chan people is worth doing. They're pathetic and vicious. Losing kids in adolescence has a cost that's far greater than just that one kid's well-being.
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Bandcamp live streaming. Bandcamp kicks ass. They just figure out what artists want and fans want, then do it really simply and transparently, without worrying about making millions or capturing million.
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10-4-4-4-4-12.
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37-minute run. I blame traffic signal misfortune. 12 pull-ups.
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The guy is trying to use the phrase “The Days Are Just Packed” (he got it from the title of the Calvin and Hobbes book) to express that a lot of things happen in a day, but he keeps saying the “the days have just packed.”
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I didn’t go outside yesterday or the day before. Today, I was at the park for three hours, then went for a walk with a friend. That’s a lot of outside time!
None of that time was sitting, though, and it wiped me out. I think I napped for an hour after I got back. -
Consider the giraffe
Within minutes, they can stand on their trembling, catwalk-model legs and suckle at their mother’s four teats, biting off the little wax caps that have formed in the preceding days to keep the milk from leaking out.
I never knew about this definition of browsing, but the logo of The Browser web site should have been a clue:We don’t know why the giraffe looks as it does. Until relatively recently, its neck was explained in the way Darwin suggested: the ‘competing browsers hypothesis’ posits, commonsensically, that competition from browsers such as impala and kudu encouraged the gradual lengthening of the neck, allowing it to reach food the others couldn’t. Recently, though, it has been shown that giraffes spend relatively little time browsing at full height, and the longer-necked individuals are more likely to die in times of famine.
That, and plenty of other surprising facts, are in that column, as there always are in Katherine Rundell’s columns.