The Weekly Weird - 2017-06-02
- Did you know that a 400m long airship is about as efficient as a train?
- "The history of deposit insurance in the United States and internationally has been a process of increasing systemic risk in the name of reducing systemic risk."
- "Cats raised in a horizontal world ... could see the seats of chairs just fine and would jump up onto them to nap. But they couldnct see the chairss legs at all and were constantly banging into them."
- This is a great vulnerability: "For example, if we execute Sudo through the symlink './ 1 '...[we] can overwrite any file on the filesystem (including root-owned files) with [our] command's output"
- That's not a plane, this is a plane...that launches rockets.
- Did you know that Dr. Wernher von Braun wrote a book about colonizing Mars in 1952? Would you care to guess the title of the leader of the Martian civilization described therein? You're not going to believe it so just read this 46 meg PDF of the English translation of Das Marsprojekt and skip to Chapter 24 (page 181 of the pdf).
- Ever need a quick reminder of how commas work? The University of Sussex has, your back.
- Borderline politics but I liked this Recap of different basic income/negative income tax proposals.
- The New Yorker on Epigenetics.