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I have friends who have swum in the River Thames or Isis daily since summer at least and post pictures of themselves sitting grinning in their swim bags. Here’s an article about wild swimming considered as a bio hack.
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Anathema: Spec from the Margins is a tri-annual zine of speculative fiction by queer people of colour. Its December 2020 edition of is a showcase reprinting 21 stories and poems from the first 4 years—a great jumping-on point for new readers.
(Via @singlecrow on Twitter)
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Transcribed version of a lecture by Luc(as) de Groot on ways to approach the design of the then newly added character U+1E9E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S (capital ß, or ẞ), starting with a discussion of the origins of the lowercase version.
(Via @jenskutilek on Twitter)
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Twitter thread on electrified reefs—metal structures running as low-voltage cathodes, facilitating the formation of corals.
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Science Magazine roundup of 2020—including a sample of the top non-COVID stories of the year.
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How to defeat writer’s block in 40 easy steps. Blog comic by Boulet
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According to this list, Minecraft has been tried on Apple’s M1-based MacBook Air and runs at 100+ fps under Rosetta 2 which would be some upgrade compared to the 20+ fps I get on my 2014 Air. They’ve also tested Monument Valley which basically covers the gamut of my video-gaming needs.
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Underwater museum of 12-tonne marble sculptures to dissuade illegal trawling off the coast of Tuscany allows the seafloor flora and fauna to return.
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Every Layout by Heydon Pickering & Andy Bell is a collection of CSS patterns for layout that avoids magic numbers and @media break-points
