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The synth company SOMA has an interesting new theremin-like synth called Flux, that uses magnetic "bows". See:

https://somasynths.com/flux/


The journal in question, Environmental Health Perspectives, doesn't charge submission fees and is open access (articles are freely available to everyone to read). Its impact factor puts it among the top journals in the fields of toxicology and Public and Environmental Health (https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/journal/ehp/journal-impact-factor).

The article notes that two other open access journals, published by the CDC are also potentially on the chopping block at HHS:

• Emerging Infectious Diseases • Preventing Chronic Disease


This is an odd interpretation if the details cited in the NY Times articles are correct:

> When he informed Ted of his marriage plans, Ted, who had never met Ms. Patrik, fumed, and warned him, in what David called a “vicious” letter, that he was making the biggest mistake of his life. Ted then severed virtually all communication with him.

From this quote it seems like Ted Kaczynski had already cut off most communication with his brother w/out ever meeting the wife.


Ted wrote Dave many times after that when he needed something. Like money. The last memoir I could find on that link indicated Dave's wife went out of her way to stop Dave from attempting to see him again before the arrest.

https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-david-k...


I wonder how similar / different this to the Filipino martial art known as Arnis, which is also bladed weapon + stick based?

Perhaps an interesting cultural example of convergence or parallelism (depending on how you think about the shared influence of Spanish colonialism w/respect to the development of these martial arts in Columbia and the Phillipines).


Note that admissions for MSc admissions usually differ quite a lot from PhD admissions, and the criteria can be very different across fields. Things have changed significantly since 2010 as well, and are likely to change even more radically in the next admissions cycle as a result of massive funding cuts to the sciences that the US is currently experiencing. Couple this with radically restricted foreign student visas resulting from new federal policy...

So this should probably be read as "Demystifying the American Graduate Admissions Process for MSc programs in CS in the 2010s".


What are the limits of Federal liability when ICE, the FBI, or some other random federal agency mistakenly raids your home?

This very question is currently before the Supreme Court for an FBI raid of a wrong house:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/supreme-court...


The Institute for Justice's Bound by Oath has great coverage of this issue from a legal perspective.

https://ij.org/ll/bound-by-oath-ll/


Usually they claim they made a good faith error, go fuck off.


Sadly, Douglas Prasher, who actually cloned GFP, couldn't get his work funded at the time and ended up leaving science:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Prasher

Arguably, he should have shared the Nobel. Makes one wonder what the rationale is for the Nobel only allowing up to three shared winners.


Nothing scary at all about a 7 ft goat-headed centaur robot with a chainsaw in its hands!

I'm guessing from the domain name this is "satyr"! ;-) Regardless, I for one welcome our mythical woodland AI-robot overlords!


This is a classic middle school science outreach activity, or something older elementary age kids might do at a summer science camp.


Lovely! I wish they had featured even more photos in the article.


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