Interesting Links: April 9, 2019

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

Straight from my RSS feed:

The top-10 from my 1000+ daily headlines. I filter them so you don't have to.

1. Thumb drive carried by Mar-a-Lago intruder immediately installed files on a PC - Pretty brazen if it was a state sponsored spying initiative. Apparently, a secret service agent managed to get their own device infected while attempting to analyze the thumb drive.
2. How to lead a conversation between people who disagree | Eve Pearlman - In this TED talk, Eve Pearlman discusses dialogue journalism, a process that she mapped out with her colleague, Jeremy Hay. She describes how it worked when the two put the process to a test with 25 Clinton supporters from California and 25 Trump supporters from Alabama. From the talk: "...If you call people names, if you label them, if you insult them, they are not inclined to listen to you. Snark doesn't help, shame doesn't help, condescension doesn't help... So lead with curiosity, emphasize discussion not debate, get out of your silo..."
3. In Search of A Rare Roman Pocket Calculator - It was owned by IBM Europe in the 20th century, then lent out from 1991 through 2008. After that, it goes missing from the historical record, and may have been sold at auction. IBM is not talking.
4. EOS (EOS), Augur (REP), and Maker (MKR) are launching on Coinbase Pro - The 4-stage launch will be available in all coinbase jurisdictions, except the state of NY. Stages are: "transfer-only", "post-only", "limit-only", and "full trading". Phase 1 began at noon (pascific time) on April 8. Timing of the other phases will be driven by market liquidity.
5. STEEM The Human Microbiome and World Community Grid. - @epicdave posts an introduction to the World Community Grid's citizen science project to explore the microbiome. The post also contains links to two interesting youtube videos.
6. Deadly Volcanic Flows Glide on Their Own Cushion of Air - If you have ever wondered how people in places like Pompei could have been outpaced by molten rock, this might help to explain it. Mathematical models have proved inadequate for predicting lava flows, so scientists made a flume where they can measure the motion of heated volcanic material as it flows. They found that a low-pressure zone always forms and sucks air in, and the layer of air prevents friction from slowing down the flow.
7. Article claiming acupuncture on parents would treat their kids through quantum entanglement has been retracted - The 2017 article was published in Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion and was withdrawn by the author after receiving criticism.
8. The UK’s online laws could be the future of the internet—and that’s got people worried - The whitepaper asserts that tech companies have a "duty of care" to protect their users, but it hand-waves about most of the details. This could lead to overly broad interpretation and censorship.
9. Why There's So Little Left of the Early Internet - No one thought to start archiving it until five years after the first web page, and even now that archiving is turned on, the speed at which sites change makes it impossible to archive everything. This reality can be seen in the recent loss of 12 years of myspace data, and the shuttering of web properties like AOL's music blogs and the Google+ social network.
10. Why Can't We Get Power From Waves? - No one has figured out an efficient way to use waves to spin turbines.

Thanks to SteemRSS from @philipkoon, @doriitamar, and @torrey.blog for the Steem RSS feeds.

Please feel welcome to discuss any of those links in the comments.