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jdnier··on Earliest Known Draft of King James Bible Is Found, Scholar Says
But significant for literary reasons, at least. The KJV is deeply interwoven into much of English literature.
jdnier··on CDC warns coffee workers of hazardous chemicals
Talk about germane, that's an excellent link. Thank you.
jdnier··on CDC warns coffee workers of hazardous chemicals
But there are different levels of respirators, some with filters for organic vapors, which I think you'd want if your goal is lowering diacetyl and 2,3-pentanedione exposure.
jdnier··on CDC warns coffee workers of hazardous chemicals
"It has also uncovered, through groundbreaking testing, that workers are being exposed to high levels of the chemicals in roasting facilities that don't use added flavors."

This article is a follow-up on a series done by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which has gotten the attention of the CDC.

http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/gasping-for-action-32298865...

jdnier··on CDC warns coffee workers of hazardous chemicals
"It has also uncovered, through groundbreaking testing, that workers are being exposed to high levels of the chemicals in roasting facilities that don't use added flavors." This article is a follow-up on a series done by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which has gotten the attention of the CDC. http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/gasping-for-action-32298865...
jdnier··on Coffee roasters' health at risk from chemical compound, air samples suggest
A follow-up article: CDC warns coffee workers of hazardous chemicals http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/cdc-warns-c...
jdnier··on Coffee roasters' health at risk from chemical compound, air samples suggest
Yes, cynical. Just Coffee is a cooperative; they don't have a CEO. http://justcoffee.coop/about/
jdnier··on Coffee roasters' health at risk from chemical compound, air samples suggest
At the end of the article, the "About This Project" section explains that "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Raquel Rutledge investigated the hazards of diacetyl and other chemicals used in the flavoring industry during a nine-month O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism through the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University. This is part of an ongoing series of stories." Part 1 is here: http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/gasping-for-action-32298865...
jdnier··on Coffee roasters' health at risk from chemical compound, air samples suggest
The article explains it's a product of fermentation, which is why it's also present in beer and wine.
jdnier··on The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
The second-to-last paragraph contains this summary: "If you look for provisions in the TPP that actually afford new benefits to users, rather than to large, rights-holding corporations, you will look in vain. The TPP is the archetype of an agreement that exists only for the benefit of the entitled, politically powerfully lobbyists who have pushed it through to completion over the last eight years."
jdnier··on Global eradication of wild poliovirus type 2 declared
It's interesting that they're already planning to remove the WPV2 component from vaccines, because it can (very rarely) lead to vaccine-associated paralytic polio. "With WPV2 transmission already having been successfully interrupted, the only type 2 poliovirus which still, on very rare occasions, causes paralysis is the type 2 serotype component in trivalent OPV. The continues use of this vaccine component is therefore inconsistent with the goal of eliminating all paralytic polio disease."
jdnier··on Microsoft Edge gets native ECMAScript 7 async/await support in latest build
Sephr's eligrey/async.js predates (01/2010) the lib you mention, caolan/async (05/2010), at least git history–wise, although the latter looks actively developed.
jdnier··on Marine Archaeologists Excavate Greek Antikythera Shipwreck
Amusing quote: “Every single dive on it delivers fabulous finds, and reveals how the ‘1 percent’ lived in the time of Caesar.”
jdnier··on Printing with Love: The Art of Letterpress Printing
The lead exposure is sobering.
jdnier··on Printing with Love: The Art of Letterpress Printing
That "better" video is worth watching. (It's a series of videos.) I've never seen the full process demonstrated. Thanks.
jdnier··on The Vegetable Detective, Take Two
The quality of the science in the original article had be criticized. Not so says this followup: "After several exchanges, Nachman came to the following conclusion: “What he has found is good science,” Nachman told me. “It is preliminary, and not yet ready to be extrapolated to the population at large. But the chemistry is chemistry. It’s all completely factual.”
jdnier··on Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama
And Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" makes the perfect soundtrack.
jdnier··on PostgreSQL’s CTEs are optimisation fences (2014)
The comments are worth reading as well.
jdnier··on A Look at HP's “The Machine”
"to allow addressing up to 32 zettabytes (ZB)" -- I think that's the first time I've seen ZB in print.

Wikipedia link: "1 ZB = 10007bytes = 1021bytes = 1000000000000000000000bytes = 1000exabytes = 1billionterabytes = 1trilliongigabytes."

jdnier··on A new Stephen Hawking presentation about black holes
"You wouldn't technically lose any information if you kept all of the ashes in one place, but you'd have a hard time looking up the capital of Minnesota."
jdnier··on The Completely Different World of Python with IBM i
It's like culture shock: "Speaking of the function library, massive is not really an adequate word to describe it. The range of capabilities available is simply staggering."
jdnier··on The Cars of 1960 Explain Why Your Grandparents Drive Differently
That's an entertaining video that really demonstrates what it's like to drive a car from 1960.
jdnier··on The secret to man's intelligence? POTATOES enabled larger brains
Full subtitle: "POTATOES: Humans evolved large brains because our ancestors ate starchy carbohydrates"

Our saliva suggests improved carbohydrate digestion: "...humans possess six salivary amylase genes, while other primates just have two, increasing the ability to digest starch. ...after cooking became widespread and the salivary amylase genes multiplied, this increased the availability of dietary glucose to the brain and foetus which, in turn, allowed the acceleration in brain size which occurred from around 800,000 years ago onwards."

jdnier··on If This Wasp Stings You, ‘Just Lie Down and Start Screaming’
“...their recommendation—and this was actually in a peer-reviewed journal—was to just lie down and start screaming, because few if any people could maintain verbal and physical coordination after getting stung by one of these things. You’re likely to just run off and hurt yourself. So just lie down and start yelling.”
jdnier··on William Tutte, the humble math professor who cracked top Nazi code
"Tutte’s extraordinary achievement — breaking the complex German Lorenz code without ever seeing the machine that generated it — is said to have hastened the end of the war by about two years and saved millions of lives."

"The Lorenz code machine — used by Adolf Hitler and senior members of the German High Command to communicate high-level strategy — was believed to be unbreakable, and trusted with the most sensitive, highly strategic information. Alan Turing’s Enigma, on the other hand, was used to send tactical messages between individual formations and units, notably ships and submarines."

jdnier··on Diet that mimics fasting appears to slow aging
As to what it is: "Prolon™1 and 2 are proprietary, solely plant-based products, comprised of vegetable medleys, broths, energy drinks, teas, and nutrition bars." So, it's a limited, plant-based diet you follow at intervals. I wonder if adopting a full-time plant-based diet would have similar effects, but without the caloric restriction.
jdnier··on Solved by Flexbox
Yes, that's a very nice visual introduction to what's possible with flexbox.
jdnier··on “I lead a cryonics team and freeze people's brains for a living”
That interview reads like it's written by a character out of Gregory Benford's 1993 novel, Chiller -- only here we are in 2015; it's just like Benford wrote about then.
jdnier··on Ubuntu testing Snappy for Desktop Next
In case you're wondering what Snappy is... http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/
jdnier··on But She Knows This Better Than Anyone
“It was a really hard workout,” she said, “and at the end we had to do two 400-meter intervals. I was running and I was just so happy. I don’t know what it was, it was just easy. And while I ran, I was yelling, I’m in a state of grace! I don’t know, I just … you feel no pain, you’re just there and you’re thinking about everything, and it’s very hard to explain.”
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