{"id":3690,"date":"2016-04-15T11:48:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T17:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3690"},"modified":"2016-04-15T11:50:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T17:50:04","slug":"odd-lots-295","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3690","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A reminder: I try to credit anyone who sends me an interesting link when I post Odd Lots entries. If you <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> want to be credited by name for whatever reason, <em>please tell me<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azounding.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Azounding<\/a> is a brand-new announcement and promotion site for indie SFF. I&#8217;m participating, but with hauling stuff up and down stairs all the time, I really haven&#8217;t had the energy to get a promo together so far. But it&#8217;s definitely a site to check at least every few days lest you miss some countdown deals.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/04\/12\/this-study-40-years-ago-could-have-reshaped-the-american-diet-but-it-was-never-fully-published\/?wpisrc=nl_az_most\" target=\"_blank\">More evidence that cholesterol has little if any link to heart disease, from a study that was done 40 years ago and never completely published<\/a>. I smell Ancel Keys disease here, and I&#8217;m guessing tens of millions of people have died from it. (Thanks to Tom Roderick and several others for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>Neal Rest sends a link to another article on the same topic: <a href= \"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/04\/12\/unearthed-data-challenge-dietary-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\">Records found in dusty basement undermine decades of dietary advice<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/13\/eating-red-meat-cheese-butter-pork-and-c\" target=\"_blank\">And still another<\/a>, from reason.com. No, red meat and dairy is not a death sentence. It might in fact buy you additional years of life.<\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/223438\/humans-nasty-gift-to-neanderthals-herpes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Diseases out of Africa may have accelerated the Neanderthals&#8217; demise<\/a>. Or maybe they dawn-raided themselves into extinction. Or a billion other things. If God ever allows me to ask him ten questions, that&#8217;ll be #1.<\/li>\n<li>From Esther Schindler: <a href= \"http:\/\/www.sciencespacerobots.com\/nasa-releases-new-mars-gravity-map-32120161\" target=\"_blank\">NASA has released a new gravity map of Mars<\/a>. How much ytterbium is in the Martian mascons? Restless minds want to know.<\/li>\n<li>Also from Esther: <a href= \"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2016\/04\/women-book-business-travel-earlier-saving-companies-millions\" target=\"_blank\">Women book air travel earlier than men, saving more money<\/a>&#8230;and older people book the earliest of all. (Is that because time just goes faster for us?)<\/li>\n<li>Is it just me, or <a href= \"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/images2016\/15apr16\/hmi1898.gif\" target=\"_blank\">would calling #2531 a sunspot<\/a> stretch the truth maybe a little? As I always ask in situations like this, <em>What would Edmond Halley see?<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Gary Frerking sent me over to <a href= \"http:\/\/www.lumastream.com\/products\/products-interior?term_node_tid_depth=15\" target=\"_blank\">LumaStream LED lighting<\/a>, which is developing a low-voltage lighting infrastructure that avoids the need to downconvert 120VAC to 12VDC in each bulb by doing the conversion up front. It looks like they&#8217;re targeting commercial lighting, but they&#8217;ve clearly proven out the idea that low-voltage DC systems can work.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a word for almost everything else in the English language; there should be a word for &#8220;the sadness that comes upon a tech writer when he must tip over a hundred pounds of his now-obsolete tech books (the ones he himself wrote) into the recycle bin.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>A widely linked-to article speculates on <a href= \"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-physics-arxiv-blog\/how-they-should-have-built-the-pyramids-a60d5bea9790\" target=\"_blank\">how the ancient Egyptians could have made pyramid-building easier by turning their titanic rectangular blocks into dodecagons<\/a> (12-sided polygons, done using rope and logs) and rolling them instead of dragging them. Problem is, a number of people misread the piece and said &#8220;dodecahedron&#8221; instead of &#8220;decagon&#8221; in their links. Geometry matters, people.<\/li>\n<li>Via Cory Doctorow: Original illustrations from Jules Verne&#8217;s <a href= \"http:\/\/detroitlib.tumblr.com\/post\/138922548994\/joyeux-anniversaire-jules-verne-8-february-1828\" target=\"_blank\">Journey to the Center of the Earth<\/a>. 1864. Cool, but one wonders if they went a trifle cheap on the artist.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/campusreform.org\/?ID=7483\" target=\"_blank\">My asshat alma mater is banning chalk, because somebody might get the vapors reading the word &#8220;Trump&#8221; in chalk<\/a>. Sorry, fools. This is not what a real university does. I loathe Trump, but free speech trumps that, as it were. You get none of my money. And I will slander you mercilessly until the end of my days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reminder: I try to credit anyone who sends me an interesting link when I post Odd Lots entries. If you don&#8217;t want to be credited by name for whatever reason, please tell me. Azounding is a brand-new announcement and promotion site for indie SFF. 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