memories for Feb 16

2016

2016 Feb 16
Zika Virus, Microcephaly, and Pesticides

"No, we don't know if Zika is causing microcephaly. But we have no evidence it's pesticides, either."

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2016 Feb 16
Planet X and General Relativity

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.

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2008

2008 Feb 16
desktop linux

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.

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2003

2003 Feb 16
The Revolution Will Be Blogged

The People have made their Will known.

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2003 Feb 16
Remixed Suburbs

I don't really remember when I dreamt this, but I will write it down now before I forget it.

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