Musk To Mars

"Inside Elon Musk's plan to build one Starship a week -- and settle Mars". (Via H.R.)

NYC Alligators

NYT: "The Truth About Alligators in the Sewers of New York"

Military Analysis Of Siege Of Gondor

"The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics".

Military analysis of the Peter Jackson movie version of the Siege Of Gondor.  (The link is to part 1 of a six-part series.)

Hey?

Hey, what happened?

Improved Touch

"Tactile Enhancement to Compensate for Loss of Sensation"

Dark Web Myth

NYT: "Can You Really Hire a Hit Man on the Dark Web?"

Brave Browser

"Brave browser taps the Wayback Machine to show deleted web pages"

Building Bridges

"This Is a Completely New, Possibly Perfect Way to Build Bridges". (Via H.R.)

Unreliable Faces

"Why faces don't always tell the truth about feelings"

Harari On History

"Yuval Noah Harari's History of Everyone, Ever"

Peak Big Hair

"The Big Data of Big Hair"

Hiding Pictures In Maps

"For Decades, Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland's Official Maps"

Wedding Llama

"A man brought a llama in a tuxedo to his sister's wedding, and the photo of her unamused expression is going viral"

More CorpSpeak

"Garbage Language: Why do corporations speak the way they do?"

New Etch-a-Sketch Model Can Draw Circles

Progress: "Etch-a-Sketch Revolution Can Actually Draw Circles"

Koreans Vs. Virus

"South Koreans are using smartphone apps to avoid the novel coronavirus":

Recently developed apps using public government data allow users to see how close they are to where a confirmed Covid-19 patient has been. They can also see the date a patient was confirmed with the disease, demographic data about the patient, and, crucially, some of their location history.

At least one app, called Corona 100m, will also alert a user if they come within 100 m (328 ft) of a location visited by someone who’s had Covid-19.

Developers of such offerings have seen a surge in downloads...

Virus Vs. Aliens?

"Coronavirus Could Preview What Will Happen When Alien Life Reaches Earth".

I think the article is making a bit of a stretch.

Hsieh Forbes Column on "Left Digit Bias"

My latest Forbes column is now out: "If You Just Turned 50, 60, 70, Or 80, Your Doctor Might Suffer From 'Left Digit Bias'".

"Left digit bias" is why customers are more likely to purchase an item priced $4.99 than $5.00.  I discuss how physicians' "left digit bias" could affect medical care in older patients, and what patients can do about it.

Handwashing Technique

"First defense against coronavirus: 20 seconds of proper hand-washing"

Bad Forensics

"The wear patterns of your jeans aren't good forensic evidence"