largely on why #schooling is bad, touching on the #IQ debate, in #Siskind’s #book-review of Freddie DeBoer’s The Cult of Smart
Emily Yoffe takes down Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret #book-review
#Siskind largely talking about inadequate equilibria
#Siskind’s “Non-Libertarian FAQ”
“Until the passage of the Affordable Care Act, #WellPoint was one of the insurers most often accused of rescinding the coverage of members who had run up large bills related to major health problems. The company paid out several hundred million dollars to resolve lawsuits and regulatory actions over rescissions and other abusive practices.” #healthcare
#WellPoint rescinded #healthcare for breast cancer patients shortly after diagnosis. “Insurance companies have used the practice, known as “rescission,” for years. And a congressional committee last year said WellPoint was one of the worst offenders.”
some herbal insect repellents last less than an hour, but lemon eucalyptus and picaridin are effective. Ultrasonic mosquito repellents don’t work.
Total used #slavery in #Myanmar to build a natural gas pipeline
notes on #self-replicating
#self-replicating #nanotech with "gem-gum-tec" by #mechadense.
Twitter thread on #self-replicating “1km crawlers” with a “chondrite to 3D printer pipeline”
This Austrian, Lukas Süss, seems to be the author of the #gem-gum-tec Wiki. Today he seems to be interested in “interactive annotated lambda diagrams”.
Madden #PDF on #electrodeposition #digital-fabrication, in this case of polypyrrole (!) “galvanostatically polymerized” at 61μm after 17 hours, and also nickel at 6 μm/s.