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Cooking with Pixar, a playlist of videos with recipes inspired by Luca (trenette al pesto), Turning Ref (congee), Coco (tamales), and Incredibles 2 (cookies).

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Charlotte Klein, who wrote the New York Magazine piece over the weekend reporting on how Bloomberg shit the bed by publishing news of Evan Gershkovich’s release in a prisoner swap before he was actually released from Russian custody: Jennifer Jacobs — one of the two Bloo...

When kids can’t get outside to play in a world built for cars, both they and adults suffer. “Kids didn’t need special equipment or lessons; they just needed to be less reliant on their time-strapped parents to get outside.”

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If you spend any amount of time on the internet — and if you’re reading this, you probably do and perhaps even feel shamed by your weekly Screen Time notification — you’ve probably seen the statistic that 5% of the Earth’s population is related to 13th century ruler of the Mongol Empire and presumed prolific father, Genghis Khan. In this episode of SciShow, Hank Green explores if that’s true and how researchers investigate relations across dozens and even hundreds of generations.

Tags: genetics · Genghis Khan · Hank Green · science · video

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Google, a monopoly, loses its antitrust case against the Dept of Justice. “A federal judge ruled that Google violated US antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly in the search and advertising markets.”

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Australia is starting kids with peanut allergies on an oral immunotherapy program. “Eligible babies will be given gradually increasing doses of peanut powder each day for at least two years, to reduce sensitivity.”

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Over the last century, athletic performances have dramatically improved because of better training, improved nutrition, a bigger pool of people to draw from, technology, increased financial support, and the human desire to build on each others’ successes. It’s actually shock...

Carl Zimmer’s new book sounds fascinating & relevant: Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe. “The fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe, the hidden life it contains, and invisible dangers that can turn the world upside down.”

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If you’re curious about how USA’s Kristen Faulkner shocked the top riders in the women’s road race, these threads go into some of the strategy involved. “Road cycling is built upon prisoner’s dilemmas like this.”

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“A climate scientist half-jokingly once told me that if billionaires really wanted to save the planet, they would buy everyone a heat pump…”

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I knew RFK Jr. was nuts but I had no idea this nuts. You really ought to watch Kennedy’s own video, which, I swear, costars Roseanne Barr. That’s his side of the story, for chrissake. Jiminy.

But. This whole thing — to wit, that it was this shithead RFK Jr. who did this a decade ago, and that it’s coming out 93 days before an election in which he’s a possible Nader-esque siphon-off-some-votes-from-the-fellow-nutjobs spoiler — might be the funniest story ever.

Link: nytimes.com/2024/08/04/us/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-bear…

Jason Snell, at Six Colors on Thursday:

On Thursday, Apple announced results for its financial third quarter. Total company revenue was $85.8 billion, a record for its fiscal third quarter, which is traditionally the company’s quietest quarter. Services revenue reached an all-time revenue high of $24.2 billion.

iPhone revenue was down 1%, iPad revenue spiked 24% after major new product releases, and Mac revenue ticked up 2%.

Check out our transcript of Apple’s quarterly conference call with analysts and our video recap of the results.

Link: sixcolors.com/post/2024/08/apple-results-quarterly-record…

There’s a new photo journal entry up!

The circus came to town. Frankeninferno. Camping in Perlenau. And a visit to the Neaderthal museum.

Charlotte Klein, reporting for New York Magazine: According to multiple sources at the Journal and other major outlets, the Bloomberg scoop left journalists and government officials fuming. With a prisoner swap, you don’t know if it’s going to happen until it happens. (A...

Elon Musk is CEO of Neuralink, SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, and CTO of X. DJ Seo is COO & President of Neuralink. Matthew MacDougall is Head Neurosurgeon at Neuralink. Bliss Chapman is Brain Interface Software Lead at Neuralink. Noland Arbaugh is the first human to have a Neurali...

We had a question back in 2007, about a thing every creature on the planet does--from giant humpback whales to teeny fruit flies. Why do we all sleep? What does it do for us, and what happens when we go without? We take a peek at iguanas sleeping with one eye open, get in be...

There’s a line in Titanic that any IT or security professional can relate to. The ship’s architect explains that he wanted to include enough lifeboats for all the passengers, “but it was felt the deck would look too cluttered.” That decision takes on a tragic significance i...

Christina Warren (a.k.a. “Mary Brown”) returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new iOS 18.1 and MacOS 15.1 betas (featuring Apple Intelligence), a little reminiscing about Gil Amelio and Steve Jobs, and the bizarre saga of TUAW, resurrected as a zombie AI slopsite.

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