Interesting Links: April 26, 2019

Business, News, Science, Technology, or whatever gets my attention.

Straight from my RSS feed:

Ten links and micro-summaries from my 1000+ daily headlines. I filter them so you don't have to.

1. How to Create an Institution That Lasts 10,000 Years - In this 36 minute video, Alexander Rose, executive director of the Long Now Foundation and manager of the 10,000 year clock discusses his research into organizations that have lasted for centuries or longer. Examples include churches, universities, family run hotels, and martial arts schools. He then moves on to integrate those thoughts into describing the design and planning for a 10,000 year clock that is intended to inspire long term thinking, and will tick once a year and "bong" with a unique melody once a century.


2. List Extra: The technology Philadelphia's biggest IT employers are betting on - Plans include cloud computing, cloud storage, managed services, machine learning, artificial intelligence, improving best practices, talent development, and deepening client relationships. Desirable sub-fields include: "data sciences, customer-relationship management software, identify management, blockchain and information security."


3. Who Owns The Dinosaurs? It All Depends On Where You Find Them - By law, federal finds need to go to museums, but finds on private lands can stay with the land owner or be sold to collectors. This has implications for the ability of other researchers to replicate or verify a find, and it also means that some discoveries get destroyed instead of being cataloged and preserved. As a result, whether to dig on private lands and compensate the land owners is a controversial question among paleontologists. h/t RealClearScience


4. STEEM Purdue Pharma Struggling To Clean Up The Mess - @doitvoluntarily writes about Purdue Pharmaceutical's legal struggles against accusations of improperly marketing and distributing their OxyContin product. The company and its controlling family deny the accusations, but they have agreed to stop marketing the product in the US, and drastically reduce their sales staff. (@doitvoluntarily will receive 5% of this post's payout).


5. STEEM 5 Mind-Blowing Projects NASA Is Actually Working On - @answerswithjoe posts and summarizes a youtube video describing 5 current NASA projects: the Em Drive, Cloud cities for Venus, a robotic drill for Europa, jet packs, Osiris Rex, and the James Webb Space Telescope. (@answerswithjoe will receive 5% of this post's payout.)


6. Swirling patterns in Starry Night match those in gassy star nurseries - Two Australian graduate students have posted a paper on ArXiv to describe their work showing that turbulence in Van Gogh's masterpiece, Starry Night, is mathematically similar to molecular clouds, the astronomical nurseries where stars are created. Past researchers have also indicated that Van Gogh's periods of agitated thought seem to correspond with his most accurate depictions of mathematical turbulence.


7. Zipline Expands Medical Drone-Delivery Service to Ghana - On April 25, Zipline inaugurated the first of four drone delivery centers in Ghana. According to the press release, each center will operate 30 drones to make emergency deliveries of blood products, vaccines, and medicines to 2,000 health facilities that server 12 million people.


8. Yes, scientific theories have to be falsifiable. Why do we even have to talk about this? - Sabine Hossenfelder distinguishes between theories and hypotheses and presents five arguments about the nature of falsifiable hypotheses.


9. The shopper’s dilemma: wait for new technology or buy now? - Daniel Lemire likens technological advance to a form of interest. You can buy now, or forego buying and get something better later. A third possibility, and the one I usually practice in my personal life, is to buy today's technology later, after the price drops. So maybe it's really the shopper's trilemma.


10. Aspiring Eagle Scout Is Turning Old Fire Hoses Into Hammocks for Big Cats - For his Eagle Scout project, Colorado's 11 year-old, Payton Crawford is knitting firehoses into hammocks for big cats in the Keenesberg Wild Animal Sanctuary. The old hoses were gathered from local fire departments.

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