I just hope that one day AI will advance to the point that it can finally tell me the name of that song that goes "doo-doo-doo doo-dat doo-dat doo, doo-dat doo"
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I just hope that one day AI will advance to the point that it can finally tell me the name of that song that goes "doo-doo-doo doo-dat doo-dat doo, doo-dat doo"
This appears to be the website of the company that cloned Javier Milei's dog
TIL in Japan hairpins are called "American pins" (amerikapin アメリカピン)
I'd be hesitant to write an article for your (otherwise excellent) publication, knowing that a potential employer, client, etc. could Google my name and–from quickly skimming the article–mistakenly think that *I'm* the one who perpetrated some scientific misconduct.
Screenshot of RW article "Lancet flags long-scrutinizied report of infant poisoned by opioids in breast milk"
Screenshot of article showing perpetrator Gideon Koren
Compare this to your article from a few days ago about the bogus breast milk contamination study. Here, the depicted person is the *perpetrator* of the misconduct, not the sleuth who uncovered it, nor the author of the Retraction Watch post.
Screenshot of the linked Retraction Watch article
Screenshot of RW article showing a portrait photo of Arthur L. Caplan
Screenshot of RW article showing portrait photo of Jonathan D. Moreno
I appreciate that RW includes portrait photos of people in its articles, but it's impossible to tell at a glance whether the depicted people are the perpetrators of the misconduct mentioned in the article, or (as is the case here) the authors of the article *about* the misconduct.
TIL that Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui both died in the same year, 2003. Unrelatedly, SARS was happening. Brutal year for Hong Kong.
The Lancet has put an expression of concern on a 2006 case report of a baby’s death purportedly from morphine poisoning through breast milk. The decision comes just days after the New Yorker published a year-long investigation into the death and the controversies that have surrounded it.
Personally I prefer the music of Cuj Dźen
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discoveries of #microplastics throughout human body, from brain to blood, arteries to testes
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@stephenjacobsmith.com how can I figure out what the required minimum decibel level is for a smoke alarm in CA? A loved one of mine has a very sensitive alarm that is *extremely loud*. It's ruining dinners and probably damaging the dog's hearing :( but building management say it is required by code
Counterpoint: Seattle pols have been riding the SEA underground since 1973 and still built Link as a partially at-grade LRT system (with no platform edge doors)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEA_Und...
Yes it's possible for a well-informed local to uniquely identify Link stations using their station codes, but then again the various "Downtown" and "City Center" stations aren't any challenge for that crowd either!
Seems odd to post an op-ed criticizing the latter, but then defend the former
Previously, one could say to a non-English speaker or a pre-literate child "if we get separated, meet me at (e.g.) the dragonfly" (Northgate) or "the anvil" (Beacon Hill).
The way to do that with the current station numbering system is far from obvious.
Why not make the "stop numbers" unique though? E.g. why not have the Judkins Park station be, say, #80, Mercer Island be #81, etc.? It's not like riders can expect consecutive stop numbers anyway--e.g. #58 Columbia City precedes #60 Othello (in anticipation of Graham St infill, which may never come)
How does Sound Transit expect confused people (tourists, non-English speakers, etc.) to benefit from using these? It seems almost intentionally engineered for confusion!
A transit map inside a Seattle Link light rail train, showing the full Line 1 (green) route from Lynnwood City Center to Angle Lake and the Line 2 (blue) route from Redmond Technology to Lynnwood City Center. The I-90 connection on this 2-line is labeled “Coming Soon.” Icons indicate accessibility, bike parking, buses, Sounder trains, and airport connections. The map is mounted above the train doors, with blue LED lights illuminating the lower part of the interior.
Only a pair of line number AND station number uniquely identifies a station. Except that when the lines connect, the stations served by both the 1-line and the 2-line will still be uniquely identified by their station numbers alone.
A transit map mounted above the doors inside a Seattle light rail train. The map shows the Link light rail system, with the green Line 1 running from Lynnwood City Center in the north through downtown Seattle to Angle Lake in the south, and the blue Line 2 running east from International District/Chinatown through Mercer Island and Bellevue to Redmond Technology. Several future extensions, including Downtown Redmond and Federal Way Downtown, are marked as “Coming Soon.” Icons indicate connections such as buses, ferries, Amtrak, and airport service.
The station numbering system is also terrible. A station number alone does NOT uniquely identify a station, e.g. station 60 could be EITHER Spring District OR Othello!
With three “downtown” stations and counting, Sound Transit must overhaul its station naming policy and name its stations less confusingly so that riders can easily navigate a growing system.
Op-ed by Stephen Fesler: www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/05/o...
I think you mean "Western Xia"
(*Wikipedia's)
The link doesn't work
A trolleybus in Shanghai
A trolleybus in São Paulo
I think it's really counterproductive here to refer to battery electric buses just as "electric buses".
Electric trolleybuses (buses with overhead wires) have a century+ track record of reliability and utility from Shanghai to São Paulo (unlike BEBs, a relative newcomer tech)
Every city that has driverless cars before driverless metros needs to hang its head in shame.
Fast Fourier Transforms Part 1: Cooley-Tukey
https://connorboyle.io/2025/09/11/fft-cooley-tukey.html
Apparently this is a fork of OpenRailwayMap; this is the repo of the fork: github.com/hiddewie/Ope...
A map of Seattle showing rail lines in color. The names of the owners/operators are shown alongside the rail lines
Very pleased to share that there is now a version of OpenRailwayMap that shows rail operators, e.g.: openrailwaymap.app#view=12.08/4...
The old Bill Holm replica totem poles seem more hidden away than ever before. I wonder how many UW students walk by regularly without ever noticing them.
Saw the new Coast Salish story pole on UW campus today. Looks neat! www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...