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“I’ll be a little late tonight,” he’d told his wife on the phone. “But hold dinner for me.”
Jack Poindexter, radio operator on board the California Clipper, a Pan Am flying boat, would be very late and would not eat that dinner on December 2, 1941.
He was substituting for another radio man on the Clipper's leg to Los Angeles, but then ended up continuing on the flight to Hawaii and then Fiji by December 7. That's when the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked Pearl Harbor.
Thus began the extraordinary journey of the California Clipper back to the United States. It went west--the long away around--landing at Auckland (where the crew "acquired" maps from a public library), then Dutch Indonesia, British Ceylon, Karachi, Bahrain, Sudan, Kinshasa, and Brazil before finally arriving at LaGuardia Airport in New York City.
Accessibility of information has vastly improved due to the internet and the numerous social media platforms that allow users to post and share just about anything. Though there are still a lot of issues concerning these sites and even rights concerning the use of these platforms like privacy, freedom, and misinformation among others.
People have been talking a lot about the algorithms that make these platforms work. Just like Google's method of sorting the sites most relevant to your search queries, Facebook and other platforms have the same issue.
A group of researchers suggested that Google's monopoly of their algorithm more or less tips the scales in favor of certain sites that take advantage of that algorithm to rise in the search rankings. I mean, that's what search engine optimization is for, however, because of this so-called "googlearchy" coined by the researchers, users aren't always able to get the content that they need.
“Though no one expected that every page on the Web would receive an exactly equal share of attention, many have assumed that the Web would be dramatically more egalitarian in this regard than traditional media. Our empirical results, however, suggest enormous disparities in the number of links pointing to political sites in a given category.
We introduce a new term to describe the organizational structure we find: “googlearchy” – the rule of the most heavily linked. We ultimately conclude that the structure of the Web funnels users to only a few heavily-linked sites in each political category.”
In Facebook's case, their algorithm defines what would show up on your news feed. If you have a lot of friends on Facebook, you would literally spend hours just scrolling down and browsing through your feed until the whole day has been spent without you even moving a muscle.
Users still have control over their feed somewhat. One can organize their contacts in such a way that they would only see posts from friends whom they really trust or whose content seem most relevant to them. But to get to this point, it would be quite taxing and require you to sort through your list.
These situations were likened to scientific publishing in that the information that gets through usually depend on a certain "algorithm". In the case of scientific publishing, it depends on the number of citations. So the most relevant and useful papers or content don't necessarily receive enough attention because of it. For online platforms, it's usually the number of links or likes.
Why am I telling you this? Because it occurred to me recently that the problem with Facebook’s omnipotent algorithm is very similar to a problem we see with scientific publishing. In scientific publishing, we also have a widely used technique for filtering information that is causing trouble. In this case, we filter which publications or authors we judge as promising.
It's easier to solve the issue in scientific publishing. The people behind the Back Reaction blog have developed a website that could help parse through scientific work. But it might be difficult for consumers to make a significant difference in terms of online platforms since the big tech companies are the ones who create these algorithms by which we abide.
However, here's the suggestion made by Sabine Hossenfelder:
Likewise, the problem with Facebook’s algorithm is that no one knows how it works, and it can’t be customized. If it was possible for users to customize what information they see, gaming would be much less of a problem. Well, needless to say, I am assuming here that the users’ customization would remain private information.
So, I think an easy way to solve at least some of the problems with Facebook would be to allow a third-party plug to sort your news-feed. This would give users more control and also relieve Facebook of some responsibility.
For people who are into arts and crafts, particularly sewing, you may want to try creating your very own pincushion with a dual purpose: not only does it store needles but it also has a chain where you can put your safety pins. You may check the instructions on how to make one on Strange Ago.
Japan has some very weird and quirky stuff everywhere. Now, they're taking one of the more prevalent features of pop culture there to inception levels. If you haven't seen or heard of gacha machines, it's those vending machines where you have the chance to get one of a set of toys in random. The fun is in not knowing what you will get and hoping you get what you want. They have different themes and designs, but the concept is the same.
Stasto’s 1:12-scale Gacha Gacha Machines come in only two colors, red or green, and have identical exterior designs. That makes them a pretty sure bet in the capsule toy world, since often the same product lineups have some very different items in them, though there’s still a bit of randomized fun here, which we’ll get to in just a second.
The coolest part of all, though, is that the mini machines are functional. Turning the crank causes a capsule to drop down into the prize claim slot, but only if you’ve first inserted an actual coin.
Pre-Mendeleyev, many chemists and scientists already sought out to carve a system or some method of organizing the known elements in a logical way. Many tried but came short since they didn't have all the information regarding the elements. However, it was quite clear to some that patterns existed in the properties of the elements.
From the law of triads to the law of octaves, chemistry had to sojourn for quite some time before the elements could all be consolidated together in the modern periodic table. In large part, this history of the periodic table is obscure to most, at least to my knowledge.
Well, bears still belongs to the same order of dogs, scientifically speaking.
Two years ago, Su Yun bought a “puppy” for her family. Upon bringing the “puppy” home, she immediately noticed its surprisingly large appetite. What she thought of as a puppy ate two buckets of noodles and a box of fruits every single day. Turns out it was a bear.
The family realised their error when the pet did not stop growing and started showing a talent for walking on two legs.
“The more he grew, the more like a bear he looked,” said Ms Yun, a villager living near the city of Kunming in Yunnan province. “I am a little scared of bears.”
The animal has now been taken into care at the Yunnan Wildlife Rescue Centre after the family got in touch requesting help. Footage taken by officials shows it standing about a metre tall. Staff were so intimidated by the animal – which had lived in the family home – they sedated it before transportation.
I love seafood, especially fish, and I believe that many of us have that same love for seafood, as there is a global demand for seafood. Each year, the global demand for seafood for human consumption is 143.8 million tonnes, and the overall consumption footprint, which includes other uses of seafood, is 154 million tonnes. China has the largest seafood consumption footprint of 65 million tonnes. Well, I guess that is not a question since they have the largest population in the world.
Chow and Lin in 2017 wanted to examine the impact of fish farming through China’s most popular fish — the yellow croaker. And examine they did. Through the help of experts and the locals, they “traversed 4 towns in Fujian China to build a tessellated mosaic of fish portraits to see how much wild small fish is needed to sustain fish farming.”
The answer is 7.15kg, 39 species, more than 4000 wild small fish to raise a single kilogram of large yellow croaker.
They are the 3 singular fish at the centre of the picture.
The large yellow croaker is China’s most popular fish, and they used to be caught in the wild for generations. Overfishing coupled with a sharp rise in consumption in China has led to a near extinction of the large yellow croaker species in the wild.
Today, virtually every large yellow croaker is farmed, and they are fed with wild small fish caught in the nearby China seas. Many of these fish are caught premature, and these species are threatened due to overfishing and lack of regulation.
(Image Credit: National Institute of Korean Language/ Wikimedia Commons)
First, a phone that has a camera that can zoom up to 50x — enough for you to see the spots on the moon. Now, this. Looks like China does not want to put on the brakes when it comes to developing their cameras.
This super camera takes advantage of single photodetectors combined with 3D computational imaging. The technique is based on laser ranging and detection, a technology that illuminates its subjects using laser light and then proceeds to create an image using reflected light.
The big advantage of this kind of active imaging is that the photons reflected from the subject return to the detector within a specific time window that depends on the distance. So any photons that arrive outside this window can be ignored.
This “gating” dramatically reduces the noise created by unwanted photons from elsewhere in the environment. And it allows lidar systems to be highly sensitive and distance specific.
To make the new system even better in urban environments, Zheng-Ping and co use an infrared laser with a wavelength of 1550 nanometers, a repetition rate of 100 kilohertz, and a modest power of 120 milliwatts. This wavelength makes the system eye-safe and allows the team to filter out solar photons that would otherwise overwhelm the detector.
A Prime Minister’s job can be draining. Beginning from a busy Monday of engagements with government duties, up to the whole week of working on problems such as youth unemployment, corruption, and the national debt, I cannot blame them if they would opt out to spend their weekends relaxing. You can probably find them in a golf course with their family.
But for Bhutan’s Prime Minister Dr. Lotay Tshering, his best place to chill is the hospital. This was what he said in an AFP interview:
“Some people play golf, some do archery, and I like to operate,” Tshering told AFP as he tended to patients one Saturday morning at Jigme Dorji Wangchuck national referral hospital, describing his moonlighting medical work as a “de-stresser”.
“I will continue doing this until I die and I miss not being able to be here every day,” he added. “Whenever I drive to work on weekdays, I wish I could turn left towards the hospital.”
Far from finding the two roles hard to juggle, Tshering said he had found that there was unexpected crossover between prime minister and surgeon. “At the hospital I scan and treat patients. In the government, I scan the health of policies and try to make them better,” he said. He has also put healthcare reform at the heart of his political agenda.
Juggling two demanding jobs is really difficult, but Bhutan’s Prime Minister Dr. Lotay Tshering proves it is possible so long as you have the heart to do it.
In recent memory, there have been two major nuclear disasters: the Chernobyl disaster in Russia and the Fukushima nuclear explosion in Japan. And in the aftermath of these two events, workers are still cleaning up radioactive material from the sites and trying to rehabilitate the areas.
People want to inhabit Earth's Moon. There seems to be a lot of hype going around the plans to send humans back to the moon and even more as these plans involve establishing colonies there. Obviously, the environment on the moon is not conducive for habitation but engineers are thinking of ways to make it happen. That is, they want to start with underground colonies.
"Our idea is to actually start underground, using a mechanism we already use on the earth, a tunnel boring machine, to make a continuous opening to create habitats or connect the colonies together," he added.
Analysis of images of the lunar surface show lava tubes capable of housing large cities underground, said Rostami, director of the Earth Mechanics Institute at the US Colorado School of Mines.
The only problem in this plan is the logistics. How do you get a machine weighing several tons on the moon? That would require a big spacecraft to deliver each of the parts which, I guess, will then be assembled on the moon's surface. From there, they will start digging a hole into the moon.
Let's say they successfully accomplish this herculean feat. What then? Will human civilization start from scratch on the moon? Will we send resources every now and then so that they can survive? How will boring a hole on the moon affect Earth? To be honest, it just feels impractical. But we'll see. They plan on sending humans in 2024, so we have ample time to think about it.
Certainly our mothers need to be appreciated and that's why we designated a day to celebrate the women who brought us into the world. Of course this appreciate should not only be limited in one day of the year and should be done every day of the year. There are some curious things about this day however, that you might not have realized. From the origins of the holiday to some statistical data about Mother's Day, Brette Sember from Mental Floss presents to us ten things we might not know about this special day.
Marie Avril's choices here are perfect. The rounded, flowing forms of Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night and Edvard Munch's The Scream are ideal for translation into works of quilling. You can watch a time-lapse process video of the Starry Night composition here.
In a free country, nobody should force you to do something you don't want to do. Even though obesity is a health risk, it should be a personal issue on which nobody can compel someone who is obese to address. It is their choice whether they would like to hit the gym and stick to a diet to lose weight. That's because it's a personal and private issue.
Some studies suggested that companies lose profits due to productivity problems stemming from employees who are obese. So, perhaps implementing a weight loss program would solve this issue? Robert Graboyes tackles this issue saying that such a program might not be in the best interest of the company.
