2021-05-23

Cool

• New Theory Suggests ‘Oumuamua Is a Nitrogen Ice Pancake

Worthy

• Teardown of a PC power supply

etc

• Dorodango, the Japanese art of making mud balls - Laurence King Blog

• Extreme weather kills 21 ultramarathoners in China race

  The high-altitude Huanghe Shilin Mountain Marathon began on Saturday morning in sunny conditions. But by 1 p.m. local time weather conditions had turned, with freezing rain, hail stones and gale winds lashing runners in Gansu County, according to the state-run Global Times.

Horseshit

• The needless drama of buying a PS5

• Big Candy Is Angry over Look-Alike THC Treats

• Unmanned supermarkets to the rescue in Sweden's rural areas

• Covid Killed His Father. Then Came $1M in Medical Bills

Obit

• Yuan Longping, Plant Scientist Who Helped Curb Famine, Dies at 90

Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination

• The sexual counterrevolution is coming - The Spectator World

Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship

• Palestinians Have Been Censored on Facebook for Years, but Now It’s Even Worse

TechSuck

• The global chip shortage is here for some time

Economicon

• America's housing crisis is the result of classist credit guidelines

• The sexual counterrevolution is coming - The Spectator World

World

• Chinese skyscraper evacuated after starting to shake for no apparent reason - CBS News

• Blast at Iranian Drone Factory

• The Brazilianization of the World

• Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist'

• How China Lends: A Rare Look into 100 Debt Contracts with Foreign Governments

Health / Medicine / COVID

• Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab Fuels Debate On Covid-19 Origin

• Not even Singapore’s rules could keep the coronavirus at bay

• The two-sided risks of lab-enhanced viruses

• In Search of Covid’s Origins, Scientists Reignite Polarizing Debate on Lab Leak

• CDC Is Investigating a Heart Problem in a Few Young Vaccine Recipients

• Data might contradict the narrative FDA Advises Against Antibody Test to Evaluate Immunity from Covid-19

• What Happened with That Weird Yankees Covid Outbreak

• Singapore: 300 Unvaccinated Covid-19 cases in current outbreak vs. 78 vaccinated

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Satellite mega-constellations create risks in LEO, the atmosphere and on Earth

• Solar storms are back, threatening life on Earth as we know it

• What climate change models can’t tell us