Archive: 2024-09

Bop Spotter — "a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission of San Francisco. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's solar powered, and the mic is pointed down at the street below." (2024-09-30 · culture, hack, hacking, mlp, music, sf, surveillance )

Seawater electrolysis that also acts as CO2 removal technology — “last year, a startup called Equatic made a breakthrough that not only solves the chlorine problem, but has the potential to deliver a two-for-one solution: commercial hydrogen production and carbon removal. an “oxygen-selective anode,” from the lab to the factory. On Thursday, it announced it had started manufacturing the anodes at a facility in San Diego.” (2024-09-20 · climate-hope, hydrogen, mlp )

Scientists calculate Earth’s temperature changes over 485 million years - The Washington Post — “ At its hottest, the study suggests, the Earth’s average temperature reached 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit (36 degrees Celsius) — far higher than the historic 58.96 F (14.98 C) the planet hit last year.” … Unlikely we'll destroy all life on earth, just ourselves. (2024-09-20 · climate, mlp )

‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman — “82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead … In Okinawa, the best predictor of where the centenarians are is where the halls of records were bombed by the Americans during the war … With the Greeks, at least 72% of centenarians were dead, missing or pension-fraud cases.” (2024-09-16 · aging, blue.zone, ig.nobel, mlp, science )

‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine — Four Thieves Vinegar Collective makes DIY medicine cheaper and more accessible with open source software and hardware — their course of Sofosbuvir, a medication that cures Hepatitis C but costs $84,000 at $1,000/pill, can be produced for only $700 or $0.83/pill (2024-09-08 · anarchism, big.pharma, chemistry, hacking, health, healthcare, healthtech, medicine, mlp, pharm )

Dervos 2024 - Distributed energy one day conference — October 25, 2024 in Brooklyn, New York. (2024-09-02 · brooklyn, climate-hope, conference, energy, mlp )