Davidman had a lot of influence on the writing of "Till We Have Faces," but it was published before her death. "A Grief Observed" is the book Lewis wrote about the grief that followed.

The 1918 influenza pandemic killed tens of millions, disproportionately affecting young and healthy adults. Does that not qualify as super-deadly?

Didn't that come from pigs?

Not sure how it works with factory farming, but apparently pigs and chickens can share space on a farm often. I am not sure about whether cows and pigs often share space.

As a datapoint, yesterday's lockout affected my Apple ID that is based on a ~25-year-old mac.com address.

As another datapoint, my account is equally old, also mac.com, and I have not been affected.

The creator of this github repo is the same person who publicly called for the release of the infocom adventures after Microsoft acquired Activision. (HN discussion from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37893794)

I don't see mention of a license in the repo, but I wonder if informal permission was given to make the sources public?

And a few MS/ex-MS employees popped up in the comments, so it's likely something happened behind the scenes. Would love to know the story.

The license only matters if someone cares.

In this case, it is very unlikely no one cares and not wishes to see this in public.

Ah, yes-- but if you shop around, you can find a telescope of that aperture for less. Here's one for a mere $132k!

https://explorescientificusa.com/collections/optiques-fullum...

Christchurch is the logistics hub and support base for the US presence in Antarctica, so I believe all US facilities on the continent conduct their work in that time zone.

Well, not Palmer, since that's supported by a research vessel from Chile.

It's also amusing because the tourist camp less than a km from Amundsen-Scott also goes by Chilean time. The tourist camp staff invited us over for Christmas when I was down at Pole, but it was like 3 am for them...

Wikipedia agrees

'The station uses New Zealand time (UTC+12 during standard time and UTC+13 during daylight saving time) since all flights to McMurdo station depart from Christchurch and, therefore, all official travel from the pole goes through New Zealand.'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amundsen%E2%80%93Scott_South...

Oh, that's cool! I've been watching the Deep Freeze planes take off since I was a kid, so I'm kinda chuffed.

Maybe this has been fixed in recent models, but ten years ago it was easy to experience baffling laptop sleep states if you happened to set a working macbook down on top of another, similarly-sized macbook with its lid closed.

Probably helped as before this it was a magnet.

The effort-to-results ratio is definitely better on the visible light side. Pictures are exciting, and much easier to explain.

A lot of smart amateurs discuss all things astro at the Cloudy Night forums; the subforum where topics such as radio astronomy are discussed is here: https://www.cloudynights.com/forum/88-scientific-amateur-ast... Could be worth a look if you're seeking ways to contribute to the area.

Similar experience here. I went to a new dentist who had one of those machines and he told me I needed at least nine fillings. I declined and found someone else. Over 16 years and multiple moves/new dentists since then, maybe three of those teeth have actually needed fillings.

The detector is made of thousands of light sensors arranged in a a km-scale 3D grid. When a neutrino interaction causes a flash of light inside this volume, multiple sensors detect the photons with nanosecond-level time resolution. So a 3D map can be made of where the light started and how it moved over time.

For a macroscale analogue, imagine a large 3D grid of microphones all recording sound. If you fired a cannon from inside this grid and looked at the waveforms from all the microphones, you could work out where the cannon was, and also form a pretty good guess of what direction it was pointed.