The Weekly Weird - 2018-04-20
- From the ignore-folklore-at-your-peril department: Ancient legends say lightning makes mushrooms grow. Modern science agrees.
- Here's a doozy: An (accidental!) cellphone photo of your finger is forensically useful.
- How sure are you that Humans are the first civilization on Earth? How sure should you be?
- You got your quantum optics in my chocolate!
- TESS just launched with a super clever orbit.
- Props to the hacker who stole this guy's ETH while he was doing a livestream, that's some A+ drama.
- Super neat: paste some json and this page will emit Rust structs that can (de)serialize the implied format.
- Human lives are individually priceless but statisticslly quite robustly valued.
- FoundationDB is open source!
- That VPN does not make you a l33t h4x0r
- One silver lining to airplane-related incidents are fascinating ATC traffic.
- I was gonna share these neat HUD glasses from Intel but they beat me to the punch by giving up on selling them, canceling the project and firing everyone involved. I... guess they weren't as cool as they seemed?
- I, uh, yet again can't improve on the headline: Washington State Fusion Center accidentally releases records on remote mind control.