Ian Kenway @iankenway@qoto.org

This is probably the BEST written and explained article about real world WiFi usage, how it works, frequencies, attenuation by obstacles, etc I have ever seen.

#QOTOJournal

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/02/the-ars-technica-semi-scientific-guide-to-wi-fi-access-point-placement/

#Beavers cut #flooding and #pollution and boost #wildlife populations | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/17/beavers-cut-flooding-and-pollution-and-boost-wildlife-populations

#Devon #England #UK #Nature

#SteveBell on #DominicCummings’ weirdos and misfits – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2020/feb/18/steve-bell-on-dominic-cummings-weirdos-and-misfits-cartoon

#UK #Politics #Satire #BorisJohnson

#Chinese people in #UK targeted with abuse over #coronavirus | World news | The Guardian

More evidence of disgraceful #racist behaviour.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/18/chinese-people-uk-targeted-racist-abuse-over-coronavirus-southampton

#Racism

As a young man living in the Netherlands, I was struck by a photo I saw on a wall in a Dutch Museum. It showed thousands of Jews getting into cattle cars - there were only 4 German soldiers and none were pointing their rifles at anybody.

There was more to the story than I had been taught and it started a lifelong study of life in Germany leading up to the war from about 1930.

The similarities in the UK right now are startling - be of no doubt of the direction Westminster is taking us.

Your #DNA is a valuable asset, so why give it to #ancestry #websites for free? | Laura Spinney | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/16/dna-hugely-valuable-health-tech-privacy

#Privacy #DataProtection #SurveillanceCapitalism #Ethics #HumanGenome

Estimating and tracking the remaining #carbon #budget for stringent #climate targets

Here we present a framework that enables us to track estimates of the remaining carbon budget and to understand how these estimates can improve over time as scientific knowledge advances.

PDF:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1368-z.pdf

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1368-z

#ClimateScience #ClimateCrisis #CO2 #Methane #CarbonBudget

When people ask me what we do, I say “think of Facebook and Google… we’re the opposite of that.”

https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology

#SmallTech

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

– R. Buckminster Fuller

#Quote

Interesting #longread on the restoration of peat bogs in Scotland (with a section on Indonesia), which help to absorb carbon.

"Globally, peatlands hold more than twice as much carbon as the world’s forests do, according to the United Nations Environment Programme."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00355-3

#Biology #Nature #Environment #PeatBogs #Scotland #Indonesia #Restoration