Interesting Links for 04-07-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Five baby beavers born at Cairngorms National Park in Scottish Highlands spotted for first time

(tags:beavers Scotland video )

2. Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate implications

(tags:globalwarming ocean doom )

3. Deafness reversed: Single injection brings hearing back within weeks | ScienceDaily

(tags:hearing deafness genetics )

4. High-Fidelity Simultaneous Speech-To-Speech Translation

(tags:translation ai )

5. Ita O'Brien: Up close and professional with the world's leading intimacy coordinator

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6. Trump seems to have decided that America should be more like Rome

(tags:usa fighting republicans EpicWTF )

7. The perfect, but slow, way to boil an egg - according to science

(tags:eggs cooking )

Comments

[nancylebov]

7. I expect we'll be seeing automated devices for periodic cooking of dippy eggs.

[andrewducker]

Steaming them does a pretty good job of that!

https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/how_to_steam_eggs/

[armiphlage]

In our factory, we have a two-chamber machine that repeatedly chills and heats electronics between -70 C and +125 C for testing their long-term reliability. A cheaper version would work for a kitchen.

[juan_gandhi]

Regarding Rome - well, that's where we are moving. The end of it.

[andrewducker]

I wonder how his fiddling skills are.

[juan_gandhi]

These days they will applaud any sound he emits.

[calimac]

Weird fact about dictators: Mussolini fancied himself a violinist, but rarely played where anyone could hear him. That didn't stop his skill from being praised. Gushing articles about him had lines like: "I have never personally had the privilege of hearing Il Duce perform myself, but blah blah blah blah blah..."

[conuly]

Now I am desperately curious as to how bad he was. (He must've been bad, right?)