Good news for Oceanic frogs—research suggests frogs in other contintents hold the key to fighting off deadly fungi that are killing them: […] There’s evidence that some frogs are naturally evolving resistance. Scientists are also trying to exploit the fungus’s sensitivity to temperature by building Bd-free (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) habitats or moving frogs to locales where the fungus can’t survive.
An academic paper on 'quantum Black creative geographies'
A different kind of quantum realm.
For Quanta, Steven Strogatz spoke to computational biologist Franziska Michor about the role that mathematics and machine learning could play in “the next generation of cancer care”.
On 17th September, the UK government announced an initiative called Sankore, with up to £1.9 million in funding to strengthen science, technology and innovation in Ghana and Nigeria through its West Africa Research and Innovation Hub.
The press release also has a link to an information page on how to apply.
For Knowable Magazine, Liam Drew explained how a new drug that could reduce effects the risk of kidney disease in Black Americans of West African descent: […] success will depend upon drugs reaching the right people — and reaching them before kidneys are damaged beyond recall.
Atmos on the Black maritime archeologists seeking ancestral truth in the deep blue sea
Why lies beneath?
Auto Shenanigans travelled to Redditch to trace the history of cloverleaf interchanges and ask why there aren’t more in the UK. Spoiler alert: cost and safety.
That time when an orange juice company dumped 12k tons of orange peels on barren soil in Costa Rica
What a remarkable orange-ment!
John D. Cook wrote an interesting blog post on mentally multiply by π should you not have access to a calculator. As someone who remembers π to 11 decimal places and used it as a chat-up line once (it kinda worked), this resonated with me.
I found this site via wiby that showcases a ton of vintage computer product designs from the 80s, 90s, and early 00s. What a time to be alive.
Jamaica's bauxite problem
What is theirs is mined.
Terry Callier: the computer programmer
Gives a new meaning to double consciousness, huh?
The Real Python Podcast, featuring Jay Miller from Black Python Devs
We outchea, Python coding!
Shout out to Ashwin Sah and Mehtaab Sawhney on their big number proof
The proof is in the… inputting?
The Microlino
It’s like Brum but for the 21st century. And Italian.
Aerial views of Iceland's glacier rivers
Stunning. Absolutely stunning.
For Capital B, Adam Mahoney wrote a piece on the cultural, financial, and environmental threats to Black communities coming from electric vehicle manufacture: The manufacturing hubs placements are intended to increase the pathway toward the middle class for Black folks, but the unintended consequence is the disruption of Black life in these places.
Induction heating, powered by magnets
You spin me right ’round, baby, right ’round like 40 magnets right ’round, ’round ’round!
The Schlörwagen
The little German car that couldn’t.
Scientific American examined the origins of Student’s T-test, created by William Sealy Gosset: The theory underlying these perennial questions in the domain of small sample sizes hadn’t been developed until Guinness came on the scene