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celias··on Pigs to the Rescue: An Invasive Species Helped Save Australia’s Crocodiles
Similar to cougars and wild donkeys in Death Valley

https://www.science.org/content/article/first-photos-cougars...

celias··on For sale in West Philly: A refurbished home that mines cryptocurrency for you
Planet Money did a story on the house

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/22/1113115868/little-house-on-th...

celias··on Why is the Bloomberg terminal so expensive, why do people still pay for it?
There's OpenBB https://openbb.co Interview with James Maslek on TalkPython https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbqvRqMbVFU
celias··on Rowan Atkinson: Visual Comedy (1992) [video]
If you want to see him in a non-comedic role I highly recommend the Maigret series from 2016-17 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15074312/
celias··on What if all roads went underground?
Beware of the Macra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlock_(Doctor_Who)
celias··on Egg Shaped Curve
Also see https://www.numberphile.com/videos/the-ultimate-egg-quation
celias··on Speedsolving Rubik's Cube: 8355 Method
Are you thinking of the Mathologer video "A simple trick to design your own solutions for Rubik's cubes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NL76uQOpI0

celias··on Core memory weavers and Navajo women made the Apollo missions possible
SmarterEveryDay did a video with Linus Sebastian that includes views of the core memory and an interview with Luke Talley from the US Rocket and Space Center in Huntsville https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI-JW2UIAG0
celias··on AI Is Discovering Patterns in Pure Mathematics That Have Never Been Seen Before
Discussed in this Numberphile podcast

https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/deep-mind

celias··on More Data from Voyager 1
You are probably thinking of the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) that was housed in an old McDonalds

https://moonviews.com

I believe the same people were involved in the ISEE-3 Reboot Project

https://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/isee-3-reboot-project/

celias··on Hookworms have potential to protect soldiers from chemical, biological weapons
RadioLab did a story and a followup about Parasites https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91689... https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/91951... that mentions Jasper Lawrence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Lawrence who is an advocate of helminthic therapy, including infecting people with hookworms to treat autoimmune diseases.
celias··on Piccolo: Python fast, user friendly ORM and query builder with asyncio
Daniel Townsend was interviewed in the Jul 22 episode of the Talk Python podcast

https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/328/piccolo-a-fast-async...

celias··on Is DryCycle the Electrically Assisted Car-Bike Thing the World Needs?
Global Cycling Network did a piece on the DryCycle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B0eXmbrBIo
celias··on Dollar stores make up nearly half of all new store openings in the U.S.
Planet Money episodes about dollar stores from 2019

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/26/717665452/epis...

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/09/721685190/planet-money-dollar...

celias··on Onion Futures Are Outlawed
Planet Money has an episode about the Onion King https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/09/19/649273647/epis...
celias··on Best technical books about *BSD / macOS?
Perhaps you are thinking of Mac OSX Internals, by Amit Singh, published in 2006
celias··on A Decade of Sun
NASA also made this video of SOHO LASCO's coronagraphs from 1998 to 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-DHwNFDgOU You can see the occulter support flip every few months after 2003 because SOHO developed a problem moving its high gain antenna and has to rotate 180 degrees at certain points in its orbit to communicate with ground stations https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2004_01_04/
celias··on Flask 2.0 Video Review
Flask 2.0 is the subject of the current episode of the TalkPython podcast

https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/316/flask-2.0

celias··on Braess's Paradox
Up and Atom has a video about Braess's Paradox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cALezV_Fwi0

celias··on Voyager 1 hears the hush of interstellar plasma
The one-way light times are at the bottom of https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov roughly 17.5 hours for Voyager2 and 21 hours for Voyager 1
celias··on Virginia moving to eliminate all accelerated math courses before 11th grade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
celias··on NASA space copter ready for first Mars flight
Delayed until no later than April 14

https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/291/mars-...

celias··on FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition
https://joelgrus.com/2016/05/23/fizz-buzz-in-tensorflow/
celias··on The Sweden Solar System
Göttingen has the Planetenweg, a 1:2 billion-scale solar system

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/planetenweg-gottingen

celias··on Japan's tsunami survivors call lost loves on the phone of the wind
This American Life Episode "One Last Thing Before I Go" has a segment called Really Long Distance about this phone booth

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/597/one-last-thing-before-i...

celias··on Global Sculpture Park – 2021 project
Washington Post article "Virtual 'sculpture,' based on math, that’s everywhere and nowhere at once"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/museums/anton-b...

celias··on The Flask Mega-Tutorial (2012)
He has a New and Improved Flask Mega-Tutorial course from 2018

https://courses.miguelgrinberg.com

celias··on Onion Futures Act of 1958
Planet Money Episode 657: The Tale Of The Onion King

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/09/19/649273647/epis...

celias··on Ask HN: Python on iPad
These apps include several common packages such as numpy, matplotlib, pandas, etc

Pyto - a Python 3.8 IDE fo iPhone and iPad https://pyto.app

Carnets - standalone Jupiter notebook. Now with Python 3.9 https://twitter.com/carnets_jupyter

I haven't used Juno or Juno Connect https://juno.sh

celias··on Pyston 2.1 Is Blowing Past Python 3.8/3.9 Performance
Pyston was the subject of a recent Podcast.__init__ podcast

https://www.pythonpodcast.com/pyston-fast-python-interpreter...

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