Blood pressure at home: Green light from the machine
Blood pressure at the doctors office: You are about to explode and should be safely confined.
I'm not actually freaked out by doctors or anything, so I'm not sure why this is. Once I figured this out, I just take a measurement at home before going and show them the photo. It's apparently common enough for them to just accept that.
Exercises from the watercolour course I started (and abandoned) last year. Although I have no will power to concentrate on precision in the evening, I can’t not notice I’ve improved in understanding - things just make more sense to me. All the same ideas (blending edges with the background, painting shapes not lines) but I “hear” it better this time. Taking long breaks helps, practicing “your thing”, your own way of doing it also helps
#dailysketching #sketchbook #watercoloursketch #mastoart
My first attempt of Linocutting! 🧡🖤
A little wonky but overall quite solid 😀
#MastoArt #linocut #linoprinting #linoleum
“What was the first thing scientists discovered?” Asks Jacobl, age 9, from Santiago, Panama.
In our latest Curious Kids column, University of Colorado Boulder engineering professor James Byrne discusses this age-old question. buff.ly/12weacW
#curiouskids
What was the first thing scientists discovered? A historian makes the case for Babylonian astronomy
Science uses careful, organized observations and tests to construct theories that are recorded, passed on to others and built on.The Conversation
Israel’s military launched a new round of deadly strikes in Gaza since the ceasefire agreement with Hamas. It’s the deadliest attack on Gaza in months with hundreds of Palestinians killed.
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#news #war #israel #hamas #gaza #genocide #ceasefire
Israeli Airstrikes Kill Hundreds In Gaza as Ceasefire Is Shattered
Israel’s military launched a new round of deadly strikes in Gaza since the ceasefire agreement with Hamas. It’s the deadliest attack on Gaza in months with hundreds of Palestinians killed. NBC’s Matt Bradley reports for TODAY.TODAY
Stock tip of the future: Mine clearing equipment.
Here a MineWolf Systems (now Pearson Engineering) MW370 is clearing anti-personnel mines. It's a heavily armored tracked vehicle with a rotating crusher in front that can chomp through dense vegetation if need be.
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Don't need to hurry, mines can last a long time. The ones in Bosnia are still blowing up the occasional tourist 30 years later.
Google is buying Wiz for $32B to beef up in cloud security, sources say
techcrunch.com/2025/03/18/goog…
#news #tech #technology #security #privacy #google #wiz #business
Google is buying Wiz for $32B to beef up in cloud security, sources say | TechCrunch
Google is making the biggest acquisition in its history. The company's parent company Alphabet is acquiring Wiz, the cloud security startup, for $32Ingrid Lunden (TechCrunch)
Dammit, we missed Ruth Amos, on TV last night.
Got the series set to record now, so just need to find ep1 on repeat now.
Ruth Amos, inventor and maker, in a new TV show recreating projects from Practical Mechanics magazine.
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I suspect (and dumbing down is often not really the intention I guess) that these types of shows are geared less towards learning and inspiration and more towards entertainment.
That's how I feel about them especially when the directors prefer filming a face talking, or just nodding, instead of the thing that is being done.
But I want to see this show anyway, and before I pass any judgement on it directly.
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Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank
BYD reveals new platform with charging speeds of 1,000 kW, which would be twice as fast as Tesla’s superchargersGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Wir sind jetzt im Fediverse. 😀
Und wir starten damit, euch hier tolle #Gesellenstücke (und mehr) zu zeigen.
Los geht´s mit Helenas #gesellenstück:
Flexibel, leicht zu transportieren und Platz für viele Dinge des Alltags - das sind die Faktoren, nach denen Helena ihr Gesellenstück konstruiert hat. Entstanden ist so ihr #möbel aus Esche mit einer harmonischen Lackierung in Blau-Grau.
#tischlerin #tischler #schreiner #handwerk #ausbildung #tischlernrw #holz
Gesellenstück von Helena Determann – DIE GUTE FORM NRW 2024
Das große Finale der Ausbildung: Das Gesellenstück ist der krönende Abschluss für die angehenden Tischlerinnen und Tischler. Hier zeigen sie eindrucksvoll, w...YouTube
18 March 1921 | A Czech Jewish woman, Gertruda Husserlová, was born in Frýdek.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.
They work pretty darn well to keep warped ply flat or to hold a jig in the right place.
Labour are brutally gutting diability benefits while allowing many more to become disabled.
Research shows that roughly 1 in 10 people in UK have Long Covid, with many more to follow.
Each infection carries risk, not only for LC but many other sequelae.
Covid is an *ongoing* mass disabling event.
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Long Covid is the pandemic’s dark shadow. Why does no one in power in Britain want to talk about it?
Five years after the first lockdown, millions of lives are still being ruined by this debilitating disease. You wouldn’t know it, says Guardian columnist Frances RyanFrances Ryan (The Guardian)
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What might save China's economy : The Indicator from Planet Money
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/1239156785/what-might-save-chinas-economy?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Plants thrived in present-day China throughout the End-Permian extinction.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
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It's so satisfying to finally see her shape. There is still a lot of work to do to complete the longship but we are getting there 😀
#viking #sailingship #sailing #boat #ship #woodworking #toulouse #france
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Becoming an expert in medical image analysis may make you better at spotting illusions.
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As a European, I can verify this
In fact, the reason it angers a Frenchman so much to be called a frog is because it triggers their inherent philosophical nature to ponder whether or not they themselves exist, to which the answer is always "J’ai besoin d’une cigarette"
Researchers at Harvard Business School and University of Toronto used unique data to quantify the value of open source.
Takeways:
* Supply-side (cost to recreate) is ~$4.15B, but demand-side (value to firms) is $8.8T. Shows massive cost savings & productivity boost from OSS.
* If OSS didn't exist, firms would need to spend an estimated 3.5 times more on software than they currently do. OSS provides a massive, often invisible, productivity boost.
* A tiny fraction of OSS developers create the vast majority of value. Only 5% of developers are responsible for over 96% of the demand-side value
* Firms should not just "free ride" on OSS but actively contribute to the ecosystem, as this is far cheaper than recreating the software themselves.
Source:
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I should be working on a DFG proposal.
But I'm more in the mood for messing about with vacuum pumps.
These were free because our workshop didn't think it was worth repairing them. Motors completely shot, everything seized, chunky oil. I was not yet able to separate the case from the pump...
Those look too expensive to never bother changing the oil 😿
Nice loot for you though! 😀
New AI allows no-skill photo editing, including adding objects and removing watermarks.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/far…
New 'Hunger Games' prequel reminds that sometimes past truths aren't visible
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5330584/hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping-suzanne-collins?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Unfortunately not .. but @pluralistic just confirmed the talk is very similar to the previously recorded one in Toronto
Post:
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Video: vimeo.com/event/4945872
2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture: Cory Doctorow
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist Cory Doctorow presents the 2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture.vimeo.com
"By firing #skilledhumanworkers and replacing them with spicy #autocomplete, #Musk is assuming his final form as both the kind of boss who can be conned into replacing you with a defective chatbot and as the fast-talking sales rep who cons your boss. Musk is transforming key #gov functions into high-speed error-generating machines whose human minders are only the payroll to take the fall for the coming tsunami of #robotfuckups."
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Canadian actor detained at US border in ‘inhumane conditions’ for nearly two weeks
Entrepreneur and actor Jasmine Mooney, who had a role in an American Pie sequel, says she was arrested at southern border and held in detention over an incomplete work visaMarina Dunbar (The Guardian)
Fast-er food: A productivity surge at U.S. restaurants
https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2025/03/18/g-s1-53844/faster-food-productivity-surge-us-restaurants?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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‘It’s a history lesson’: fossil fish up to 16m years old found perfectly preserved in central NSW
Fossils retain microscopic structural features including stomach contents and provide first detailed evidence in Australia for fish called OsmeriformesPetra Stock (The Guardian)
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in reply to Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar • • •I think it's a recognised fact that people's blood pressure is higher in medical situations. They call it White Coat Syndrome.
I guess even just being out of home at the surgery is enough to raise your blood pressure, even if your mind is actually fine with it.
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