There’s a ‘climate bomb’ ticking beneath the Arctic ice. How can we prepare? | Aeon Videos

Dramatic images of massive ice shelves breaking off into the ocean and the emaciated bodies of starving polar bears are often used to illustrate the impact of climate change on Arctic landscapes. However, as this short film explores, perhaps the greatest cause for concern is the increasing vulnerability of Arctic permafrost. Often hidden from human view, this ‘scrubby brown dirt’ contains aeons of accumulated greenhouse gases that are released into the atmosphere once it thaws – which has been happening at unprecedented rates thanks to rising temperatures. Featuring interviews with climate scientists as well as those living on the frontlines of this slow-moving crisis, the film highlights both the vital role of permafrost in the climate and the need to listen to the Arctic communities already being affected.

Extra virgin olive oil is the flavour of mechanisation | Aeon Essays

Mensen houden al millennia van olijfolie — maar de smaak van olijfolie nu is niet de smaak van olijfolie toen.

Astronaut

Today, you are an Astronaut. You are floating in inner space 100 miles above the surface of Earth. You peer through your window and this is what you see. You are people watching. These are fleeting moments.

These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you).

Astronaut starts when you press GO. The video switches periodically. Click the button below the video to prevent the video from switching.

ObscureTube

ObscureTube displays recent, low view count YouTube videos with names like IMG 1234, MOV 9876, or DSC 5678.

This site is similar to others which display low view count videos, such as astronaut.io or petittube.com, but adds some functionality that I thought was missing from those. Using astronaut.io, I was soon watching the same videos over again, and the feed was overrun by a handful of channels posting dozens or hundreds of times a day.

Here, every video ID you see is cached in your cookies, so you should never see the same video twice. You also have the option to block channels from showing up entirely if you get tired of them, and your experience can be refreshed by clearing your cookies or resetting your cache.

There’s other features, such as customizable autoskip & options to share the site.

Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence With NASA via a Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 1981 | Smithsonian

In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2: a pair of spacecraft tasked with touring Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune by taking advantage of a rare alignment of the outer planets that only happens once every 175 years. The two probes had both completed their encounters with these worlds by 1989, and since then, they’ve traveled to the outer limits of our solar system and beyond, sending critical scientific data back to Earth.

Recently, however, Voyager 1 briefly fell silent. It broke communication with NASA in mid-October, then restored contact in an unexpected way: a backup radio transmitter that had been inactive since 1981.

LAN Party House

Ayup, een fijn huis voor wie veel vrienden en nog meer geld heeft.

How a BBC navigation bar component broke depending on which external monitor it was on – Josh Tumath

Recently, my team and I fixed an absolutely bizarre bug that only one person in the team could reproduce. And to make it even weirder, she was only able to reproduce the issue when using her work laptop at home; it worked fine with the same laptop in the office.

Meteorite 200 times larger than one that killed dinosaurs reset early life | Research | Chemistry World

A giant meteorite that slammed into Earth over 3 billion years ago devastated early microbial life in the oceans, but also freed up a nutrient bonanza.

‘Scientific American’ Departing Editor Laura Helmuth Helped Degrade Science

Zware ‘ding dong the witch is dead’ vibes hier.

When magazines like ‘Scientific American’ are run by ideologues producing biased dreck, it only makes it more difficult to defend the institution of science itself.

The Tragedy of Running an Old Node Project – Abdisalan Mohamud

How hard could it be to run an old node project?
Pretty hard actually.

UK air traffic system failure triggered by misidentified French Bee flightplan waypoint | Flight Global

Soms toch nog wel wat nostalgie naar toen ik dit soort dingen van dichtbij zou meegemaakt hebben. 🙂

Investigators probing the serious UK air traffic control system failure in August last year have detailed the flightplan waypoint confusion which triggered the incident.

Over 700,000 passengers were affected by the failure of UK air navigation service NATS’ flightplan processing system. This forced controllers to revert to manual processing, leading to more than 1,500 flight cancellations and delaying hundreds of services which did operate.

The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest Princess – The New York Times

Carl Jeppson, a Swedish immigrant to the city, peddled Jeppson’s Malört as a digestif as early as the 1930s. “It was the only liquor to survive Prohibition because no one believed that a human being would drink that on purpose, and that it had to be medicinal,” said J.W. Basilo, the manager of the Promontory and a bartender in Chicago for more than 20 years.