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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01369-4
edit: direct dataset available through here https://medialab.github.io/bhht-datascape/
Why was this changed? Ruins the April Fools nature of it...
>Even on short plane trips, every passenger is offered the kindergartner’s communion of juice and cookies, as if a majority of adults are incapable of going 90 minutes without such provisions. On trains, passengers are treated as individuals even more powerful than adults: independent teenagers who just want to smoke. Amtrak knows you want to smoke. Amtrak knows you love to smoke. But while you’re living under Amtrak’s roof, you have to follow the rules, of which there is only one, and that is: Don’t smoke inside.
The author Caity Weaver also wrote a fun autoethnography on #VanLife[0].
>The process was then so unforgiving that I destroyed my iPhone screen in a split second with an irreversible error
Which translates to "I forgot to remove the screws holding in the screen before I tried to pry off the glass".
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/technology/personaltech/a...
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/27/upshot/biden-...
"‘Oumuamua may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilization."[0] The rest of the paper covers the possibility that the ‘Oumuamua object was sent unintentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilization.
Both are recommended. Does anyone have recommendation for a popular-science level book on Graham? I'm only familiar with him from the Numberphile video series.
[0] https://www.harvard.com/book/maker_of_patterns_an_autobiogra...
[1] short snippet from it https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2015/roberts-john-horton-conway
Also Siobhan Roberts' biography of Conway, Genius at Play[1], told another great story. Low on math content but Conway's personality and the narrators attempts to corral it were quick fun.
Both are recommended. Does anyone have recommendation for a popular-science level book on Graham? I'm only familiar with him from the Numberphile video series.
[0] https://www.harvard.com/book/maker_of_patterns_an_autobiogra...
[1] short snippet from it https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2015/roberts-john-horton-conway