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Interesting stuff from last month (not a lot?): * Entanglement isn’t just across space, but across time too(!) * There is a new type of ice, occurring in the inclusions of diamonds formed hundreds…

Interesting stuff I came across last month: * The giant shipworm (three foot long, lives on hydrogen sulfide, within a calcium carbonate tube that it secretes) has finally been located (by scientist…

Interesting stuff I came across last month: * It’s now possible to create a stable plasma ring without all the magnets The stream of water is an 85-micron-diameter jet blasting from a specially des…

Interesting stuff from the last month: * Meta: last month of the year, and one where I was busy with work and vacation * Very interesting deep-dive on “Type-Safe GraphQL with Ocaml” * Scaling up Q…

Interesting stuff from the past month: * Beginning with this headline, from the BBC: ”‘Big void’ identified in Khufu’s Great Pyramid at Giza” * I don’t honestly think there’s a “way back” to the “o…

Interesting stuff from the past month: * I feel the old “static typing vs dynamic typing” debate has gotten more nuanced recently with ‘spec’ and ‘schema’ in Clojure (i.e. better, fine-grained, runt…

Fun stuff from the past month … * Blast from the past: a “Unix logo contest”, twenty years ago, that was in turn celebration thirty years of Unix. * A “less massive” black hole right next to the su…

Random list of interesting stuff this month: * Some progress on gene editing (!) * A very well-preserved dinosaur * A profile of the old people steering old space probes. * This is one of those h…

Random list of interesting stuff this month: * The Lyft bus announcement led to some hand-wringing. * I knew there were rivers that flow under the land; apparently some flow under the sea too. * I…