2018-04-28

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2018-04-28 08:52 am

Magazines I Want to Buy This Weekend

  • Bloomberg Business Week
  • 3D Artist
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2018-04-28 08:53 am

Mad Comic-Book Science and Pig Brains

So I saw this article this morning:

Ethics debate as pig brains kept alive without a body
By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News


My super-hero comics-invested brain immediately thought of DC Comics' Robotmen, Bob Crane and Cliff Steele. Shortly thereafter, there was Anton Ivanov, the self-described "Superior" from Marvel+ABC's Agents of SHIELD TV series...
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2018-04-28 10:55 am

Astronomy Software Note

One more possibly good thing today: there's a new version of the planetarium freeware Celestia available now. As someone who's been getting some enjoyment out of v.1.6.0, I am intensely curious to see how v.1.6.1 will work out. Especially once the GAIA DR 2 data is integrated with it.

https://celestia.space/