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You might also note that in their first blog post they use the French language convention of puting a space before their exclamation marks and in this latest post they use the English language convention of no space.

Now I can update this blog and push to github, instant deploy !

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Alaska was never really fully under ice. If you look at this picture of the Laurentide ice sheet [1] during the last glacial maximum [2] then that shows the most Alaska was covered in ice which was 26 to 20 thousand years ago.

The time frame where the Bering land bridge is being looked at for the OP article is a wider 36 to 11 thousand years ago.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurentide_ice_sheet

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Maximum

IMG_0001 2 years ago

"Between 2009 and 2012" fits with the Kony 2012 documentary.

You seem to have interpreted the analogy as meaning "you might run out of turtles" instead of something like: "stacks of turtles aren't stable without stable beneath them, no matter how many turtles you use."

Rather coyly, Stanmore refuses to weigh in on the efficacy of such spells. “It is not my place to say whether the magic practiced by cunning folk was real,” she writes: “I don’t know, I wasn’t there.” She does propose that all of their fellow citizens believed in the cunning folk’s powers. Many magicians had excellent reputations in the art of finding buried treasure or directing the outcome of lawsuits, and she maintains that this could only be the result of a consistent record of success.

That last line of this quote and the first line of this quote sound to me like they contradict each other.

Of course. the first image of the blog post shows that you can "paint over" the largely unused area and you don't lose much of your original image. The hidden watermarks make use of this unused area so you can just paint over that area with blank data in order to "scrub" any hidden watermarks.

"counterfeit presentment" is an interesting phrase to use to refer to a statue. I see there's a play by that same name written the same decade but it was actually written six years later.

I found this article really odd. I thought for the majority of it that the author was conflating "goodness" of music with "survival". Saying all these songs disappeared into obscurity and that's okay because they were bad and we know they were bad because they disappeared into obscurity.

They even invoke "Survival of the Fittest" which often trips up high school kids who think fitness is strength or some other specific quality (like goodness) and you have to correct them that the definition of fitness is "that thing that gives a population survival".

I read the article in reader mode so I didn't see the video. After I went back to check out the video I was surprised that the submerged paddle were going in a circle instead of a straight line.

How can they say they too many birds cause the later positions to be unstable if this is their model? Don't they just run out of circumference and so they can't really model so many birds because the paddles start to overlap?

I suppose the math models the higher number of birds but they didn't 3d print that math and put it in a fish tank.

Using images from seismic reflection surveys and ground truth data from drilling efforts in the Gulf of Alaska, researchers uncovered the existence of the slide, as well as the seafloor topography from before and after it occurred.

I wonder why they call it "ground truth data" instead of just "data". The paper calls it "drilling data" when pointing out where they got which information.

These seems like the most interesting thing to come from the post and every time you refresh the comments you will see more people asking about this feature.

But so that means that you could lose land or gain land if enough earth moves and the relative change to the land marks is in your favor or not. But it's just not a big enough of a deal to do it a different way. I do wonder what the most significant occurrence of that is though.