Celebratory coins provoking fury, very unconventional health advice and a way to chart your stools: the week in weird Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933244-600-at-least-the-mary-anning-coin-doesnt-have-a-tripod-with-four-legs/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Apple Mail and Hidden Tracking Images
John Gruber, writing at DaringFireball: In my piece yesterday about email tracking images (“spy pixels” or “spy trackers”), I complained about the fact that Apple — a company that rightfully prides itself for its numerous features protecting user privacy — offers no built-in defenses for email tracking. A slew of readers wrote to argue that Apple Mail does offer such a…
Weird rodent glows under UV light with disco swirls of pink and orange
New research spotlights fluorescence in a jumping rodent known as a springhare. Source: https://www.livescience.com/pink-fluorescent-mammal-springhare.html
3D map of a million binary stars
A new atlas of nearby binary stars plots more than a million pairs and reveals a profusion of identical twins. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/3d-map-million-binary-stars…
Incredibly detailed video shows DNA twisting into weird shapes to squeeze into cells
Scientists recently captured a high-resolution video of DNA shimmying into weird shapes in order to squeeze inside cells. Source: https://www.livescience.com/dna-folds-weird-shapes-cell-visualization.html
The weirdest ways to measure a shop’s recycling efforts
A sea turtle’s worth of cardboard, plus an extremely unlikely virus and algorithm malfunctions, in Feedback’s weird weekly round-up Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933223-700-the-weirdest-ways-to-measure-a-shops-recycling-efforts/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
The Secret, Essential Geography of the Office
A workplace has its own informal cardinal directions: elevatorward, kitchenward, bathroomward. It’s a map we share. From an essay: I love visiting offices, listening to their hum. Literally: I sometimes went to a giant financial firm where they traded different kinds of securities on different floors, and if it was a big day in bonds the fourth floor would be loud,…
Next flu season could be extra weird, and potentially very bad
Upcoming flu outbreaks will be less predictable than those of the past. Source: https://www.livescience.com/offseason-flu-respiratory-infections.html
Avi Loeb interview: Could ‘Oumuamua be alien technology after all?
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has drawn criticism for suggesting a weird object passing through the solar system could be an alien spacecraft. But he insists we must keep an open mind when nature throws us a curveball Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933210-900-avi-loeb-interview-could-oumuamua-be-alien-technology-after-all/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Cops Are Playing Music While Citizens Are Filming To Trigger Copyright Filters
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Last Friday, a man entered the Beverly Hills police department, only to be treated to a mini DJ set that could potentially get his Instagram account banned. Sennett Devermont was at the department to file a form to obtain body camera footage from an incident in which he received a ticket he felt…