Pedro @PedroMiguel@qoto.org

Still time to apply for one of the Associate/Senior Editor positions at Nature Chemical Engineering!

Closing date: Feb 15th
Locations: Shanghai, Beijing, New York, London or Berlin

Looking for expertise in one or more of the following:

– Catalysis and reaction engineering
– Energy and environmental engineering
– Cellular and biomolecular engineering
– Theory and computation

Job advert is here: https://careers.springernature.com/job/London-Associate-or-Senior-Editor%2C-Nature-Chemical-Engineering/882724901/

Men, when you hit 45, get a #colonoscopy. It could very well save your life. My older brother died of related cancer in his mid 40s, leaving behind his wife & 3 kids, so I was recommended to get my 1st early. I do it every 2 years like clockwork (next one is this week).

Do it. #Cancer

In the men's restroom, someone punched a hole in the wall. The staff decided not to repair the hole, but to frame it... #art

Hey #law students! Plug this into #ChatGPT and weep as your career takes nine steps back:

“Write a contract of purchase and sale under Ontario law for a boat called the Edmund Fitzgerald, seller is Gordon Lightfoot, buyer is Davy Jones, selling price $225,000.”

Come to human rights, #Trudeau is as awful as Harper. Why must it take a court order for Canadian citizens to return to #Canada? Both those rotten PMs pretended otherwise and got judicially slapped. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canadians-detained-syria-repatriation/

“Cars can be convenient, but they are also incredibly costly, both to owners and society in general. New research has calculated that the lifetime cost of a SMALL car—such as an Opel Corsa—is about $689,000, of which society pays $275,000.” — @carltonreid in Forbes.

And the real cost to all of us is a lot more than that.

#cities #urbanism #cars

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2022/02/04/lifetime-cost-of-small-car-689000-society-subsidises-this-ownership-with-275000/

#Linux on the #desktop is becoming more #popular in my home town, but for the wrong reasons.

It's #poverty: many people have no money for a new #laptop or desktop. Their old #computers still work fine, but can't run the latest versions of #Windows.

We backup their data, install #LinuxMint, restore their data, install some extra programs, show them around and they're good to go.

Interestingly no one had problems making the switch so far. All quiet on the support front.

An apartment building is not a military target. Attacking it is not warfare but war crimes. It is past time to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism and abolish its seat on the Security Council. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/16/world/russia-ukraine-news?smid=url-share

grocery store chains: we set record profits this year

retail chains: we've never made so much money

energy companies: we just posted our best quarter on record

news article: who is to blame for inflation? you peasants wanting wages, probably

All of the bases in DNA and RNA have now been found in meteorites

No word yet on how Greg Abbott or Ron DeSantis will be able to bus 8 Billion aliens to Kamala Harris’ Washington DC residence next Christmas Eve.

From me: It is time for the Criminal Code to slide into the DMs of any man who thinks he flash his dick at an unsuspecting woman

https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion/why-sending-unsolicited-dick-pics-should-be-a-criminal-offence/372856

Moderna is planning to charge $130 for its COVID vaccine, but the vaccine only costs $2.85 to make.

Meanwhile, over the last two years, the company made over $19 billion in profits off the vaccine.

Folks, this is what corporate greed looks like.

@notjustbikes

In pop culture, computing & programming are often depicted with “tech bros.” But the first computer programmer was a brilliant woman.

Augusta “Ada” Lovelace was born in 1815. Her notes include an algorithm designed to be carried out by a machine & she envisioned that computers could go beyond calculations. Lovelace described “how individuals & society relate to technology as a collaborative tool.”

Lovelace passed away in 1852 at just 36. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/ada-lovelace-the-first-tech-visionary #women #history #science

Bike lanes are DRIVER infrastructure. Without cars there's no need for bike lanes - the whole reason for bike lanes is to protect people from drivers. The cost of bike lanes is part of the cost of driving.

@BrentToderian I always find it odd when I talk to people who complain about traffic and their brain somehow takes them to “if that guy on his bike was also in a car in this traffic jam things would be a bit better for me”.

Underappreciated oceanographic tool of the day: the humble parsnip. Back in 1948, Lewis Richardson and Henry Stommel dropped pairs of parsnips into a Scottish loch and watched how each pair floated apart, to study how energy moves through the ocean. It turns out that the parsnip is the perfect ocean surface drifter. #ocean #oceanography #parsnip

@tomflood in Colorado we have the new "safety stop" which was passed last spring. Cyclists can treat stop signs as yield signs and stoplights as stop signs.