memories for Feb 16
2016
"No, we don't know if Zika is causing microcephaly. But we have no evidence it's pesticides, either."
· Read more…Newtonian mechanics predicted that there should be a planet inside the orbit of Mercury which they named Vulcan to explain Mercury's anomalous precession of its perihelion, but it turns out that what was really going on was due to the curvature of spacetime predicted by General Relativity.
· Read more…2008
All sorts of theories have been proposed about why Linux has not taken a significant chunk of the market for desktop OSes. While there may be merit in some of the psychosocial economics presented, it ignores big, more concrete reasons why Linux hasn't seriously eroded Windows market share, and why even Mac OS X is outstripping it on the desktop front.
· Read more…2003
The People have made their Will known.
· Read more…I don't really remember when I dreamt this, but I will write it down now before I forget it.
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