Andreas Matern

Merry Christmas all

Henrietta Lacks’ hometown is replacing a Robert E Lee monument with a statue of her. That’s awesome

Now it’s Christmas

Following a Thread on Hacker News about the Atari 2600 Basic programming cartridge, I found this.. and it brought back a flood of memories writing D&D character generation programs in Basic and saving them to cassette tape.  How times have changed!

What an inspiring morning read. Now let’s get ready for some football. Will Argentina prevail? Or will France win back to back world cups?

Best science images of 2022 - photographs of a black hole? Amazing.

The best line I’ve read all day 

If you did go for a full ten minutes without one thought appearing in your mind, you are a freak of human nature.

From here, via here. 

BASF Ad

Found this old BASF Advertisement that was … sent to me in the 1980s?

A really great read of a complicated subject.  We’re all taught that the undifferentiated mass of cells that we all start out as starts to develop chemical gradients that changes gene expression depending upon physical location.  Now, it looks like that answer is not sufficient.  Cells use the extracellular matrix to push and pull and change.  Fascinating!

Cool sky tonight

Well this sounds fun.

A $5000 Bounty Hunter drink? Um …. Ok.

Now that’s a rainbow after a day of rain! #DedhamMA

Happy Sunday. 

Neat.  

If reincarnation is real, I choose to come back as Penny

Floating solar power could help fight climate change — let’s get it right - a good read weighing the pros and cons …. Can we cover my swimming pool in solar panels?

The manuscript is available online here.  I’m a big fan of Norvig, and I’m looking forward to finding the time to read this! 

Ok this trailer is fantastic….. 

This is such an interesting take on the work from home debate.

Well this lunchtime read just made me upset - let’s get rid of single use plastic. Recyled Lies

I obviously don’t know how to cut onions. 

Well, this gives me some hope … interesting to do this now...

Ah the March snow

Well, I’m excited.