2021-02-14

Valentine's day! Blizzard of '21

Cool

• (2008) Ice Formations Diurnal Freeze-Thaw Cycles

• How To Bake Brownies With A Perfect Glossy Skin

Worthy

• Cereals, feasts and monuments at Göbekli Tepe – Tepe Telegrams

  The site has also produced a wide range of stationary and portable art, far outnumbering such finds from other contemporary sites. Many of the animal and human depictions are clearly marked as male, there are almost no clearly recognizable female depictions, a situation contrary to the materials known from settlements.

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• Do Adults Really Not Remember School Sucked? | Ian Welsh

• State power grid warns of rotating outages if electricity demand overwhelms supply

Horseshit

• Lego won't make modern war machines, but others are picking up the pieces

• Covid crisis: Laid off and evicted, more people make cars their home

• Churchill College panel claims wartime PM was a white supremacist leading an empire 'worse than the Nazis'

• How Bellingcat uncovered Russia’s secret network of assassins

• Journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about raw power

• It’s Time to Take the Penis off Its Pedestal: A culture of phallus worship has slanted the science in crucial and sometimes unexpected ways.

TechSuck

• In Nevada desert, a technology firm aims to be a government

Economicon

• Bitcoin nears $50k, wider adoption fuels record rally

• How Poverty Makes Workers Less Productive

• (9p) The spot price for electricity in Texas is currently about $9000 per MW-hr

  • Energy Trader: We've Officially Hit "Holy S*it Levels" | ZeroHedge

  And yep, all those folks on griddy were paying 9$ per KWh earlier today and continue to get lubelessly pounded

Politickles

• Biden on Trump acquittal: 'Substance of the charge is not in dispute'

• Why Democrats blinked in the Senate impeachment trial - CNNPolitics

• Tucker Carlson: Why the left wants to shut down Fox News for good | Fox News

• House GOP lawmaker unexpectedly shakes up Senate trial | TheHill

• Michael van der Veen, Trump impeachment lawyer, says home, family 'under siege' by vandals - Washington Times

• FBI Informant Panic Is Ruining Friendships All Over the Far Right Proud Boys and America Firsters

World

• Houthis Bomb Airport in Saudi Arabia After Being Removed From Terror List by Biden Administration

• Myanmar Army Tightens Laws on Overnight Guests as Police Hunt Protesters

Health / Medicine / COVID

• US Coronavirus: Covid-19 cases have declined sharply. These factors will determine how pandemic unfolds from here, group of experts says - CNN

• Does yoga have a conspiracy theory problem? - BBC News

• Half Doses of Moderna Vaccine Produce Neutralizing Antibodies

Green Propaganda

• The Myth of America’s Green Growth

Obit

• Rupert Neve, GRAMMY-Winning Audio Industry Icon, Dies at 94 — Rupert Neve

• Robert Altman, Video Game Mogul Who Survived Scandal, Dies at 73