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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/07
Ain’t history extra lovely when someone discovers the original drawings of what her dad had sent to space?
Back in the 1970s, Frank Drake did two memorable things: he helped design the Pioneer plaque (sent to space in 1972 on Pioneer 11) containing among other things pulsar map, and later helped design the 1977 Voyager Golden Record (sent to space in 1977 on both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2) again containing the pulsar map. In between, he helped designed Arecibo message broadcasted to space in 1974.
And guess what: today is the 50th anniversary of that message being broadcasted.
Almost 10 years ago, in 2016 his daughter Nadia Drake found back the original drawing of the pulsar map: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/28
Last year, a third LEGO Turing Machine that I know of was developed, 12 years after the second one (details below) developed during the 2012 Alan Turing Year and a first one in 2009 (see also below), and this time submitted at LEGO ideas.
[Wayback/Archive] LEGO IDEAS – Turing Machine – Working Lego Computer
Please vote for it, as it will be a great gift not just for computing lovers but also as a learning opportunities.
Links:
Via
All three machines are cool devices, so lets continue with…
Second LEGO Turing Machine
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/27
[Wayback/Archive] Design kledingrek SOOPL FASHION TROLLEY
Design kledingrekgrek van het merk SOOPL rijdt vanwege de grote wielen stabiel op ieder wegdek en over iedere drempel. De SOOPL FASHION TROLLEY is stabiel en kan eenvoudig (volledig) worden in- en uitgeklapt en heeft daarnaast een bijzonder fraai uiterlijk. De stevige kunststof verbindingen en aluminium buizen zorgen voor een relatief laag gewicht. De grote massieve wielen zijn voorzien van wielkasten en spatborden zodat de kleding niet vies wordt wanneer u in de regen rijdt. Daarnaast is het rek voorzien van uitschijfbare stangen aan de bovenzijde zodat de hangcapaciteit kan worden vergroot. De bodem is voorzien van een stoffen mat ter bescherming van kleding. De afmetingen van het SOOPL
kledingrek zijn 90cm lang, 60cm diep en 160cm hoog. Het totale gewicht bedraagd 11,5 kg.
Speciale prijs € 411,28 € 339,90 € 422,23
Fabrikant:
Tweedehands: [Wayback/Archive] ≥ Soopl reis trolley kledingrek fashion — Kledingrekken — Marktplaats
Query: [Wayback/Archive] Soopl kledingrek – Sök på Google
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/23
Quoting [Wayback/Archive] Kevin Beaumont: “The US Government has issued a…” – Cyberplace
The US Government has issued an executive order demanding employees snitch on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility initiatives by emailing: DEIAtruth@opm.gov
Just in case you wanted an email address for paywalls, mailing lists etc.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/20
Boy was I surprised how bad a human brain functions when getting more stressful:
Figure 6
STATE DEPENDENT FUNCTIONING
| “STATE” |
CALM |
ALERT |
ALARM |
FEAR |
TERROR |
DOMINANT
BRAIN AREAS |
Cortex
(DMN) |
Cortex
(Limbic) |
Limbic
(Diencephalon) |
Diencephalon
(Brainstem) |
Brainstem |
ADAPTIVE “Option”
Arousal |
Reflect
(create) |
Flock
(hypervigilance) |
Freeze
(resistance) |
Flight
(defiance) |
Fight |
ADAPTIVE “Option”
Dissociation |
Reflect
(daydream) |
Avoid |
Comply |
Dissociate
(paralysis/catatonia) |
Faint
(collapse) |
| COGNITION |
Abstract
(creative) |
Concrete
(routine) |
Emotional |
Reactive |
Reflexive |
| FUNCTIONAL IQ |
120-100 |
110-90 |
100-80 |
90-70 |
80-60 |
I got the table from a Tweet by Andrea Walraven-Thissen (see below).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/15
I wonder, 40 years later, what happened after the USSR dismantled: especially with the developments over the last 10 years and the culmination in the last 2, are these bands – banned in January 1985 – still banned in Russia? [Wayback/Archive] They were banned in the USSR – The Scotsman
The above article was published in 2014, and a full translated list in the 2015 article [Wayback/Archive] The Soviet Union Creates a List of 38 Dangerous Rock Bands: Kiss, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, Village People & More (1985) | Open Culture.
A picture of the original list in Russian was published in the 2017 article [Wayback/Archive] A list of 38 “dangerous” Western bands banned in the USSR
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