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Internet Harvest (2020, 2)
Internet Harvest is a selection of the most succulent links on the internet that I’ve recently plucked from its fruitful boughs. Feel free to discuss the links in the comments. Also,...
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A love letter to civilian OSINT
[Content warning: discussion of violence and child abuse. No graphic images in this post, but some links may contain disturbing material.] In July 2017, a Facebook user posts a video of an execution....
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Internet Harvest is a selection of the most succulent links on the internet that I’ve recently plucked from its fruitful boughs. Feel free to discuss the links in the comments. You know how you can...
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There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
So you’ve heard about how fish aren’t a monophyletic group? You’ve heard about carcinization, the process by which ocean arthropods convergently evolve into crabs? You say you get it now? Sit down....
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Fiber arts, mysterious dodecahedrons, and waiting on “Eureka!”
Part 1: The anomaly This story starts, as many stories do, with my girlfriend 3D-printing me a supernatural artifact. Specifically, one of my favorite SCPs, SCP-184. This attempt got about 75% of the...
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Who invented knitting? The plot thickens
Last time on Eukaryote Writes Blog: You learned about knitting history. You thought you were done learning about knitting history? You fool. You buffoon. I wanted to double check some things in the...
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Eukaryote in Asterisk Magazine + New Patreon Per-post setup
Eukaryote elsewhere I have an article in the latest issue of Asterisk Magazine. After you get really deep into the weeds of invertebrate sentience and fish welfare and the scale of factory farming,...
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Will the growing deer prion epidemic spread to humans? Why not?
Helpful background reading: What’s the deal with prions? A novel lethal infectious neurological disease emerged in American deer a few decades ago. Since then, it’s spread rapidly across the...
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Defending against hypothetical moon life during Apollo 11
[Header image: Photo of the lunar lander taken during Apollo 11.] In 1969, after successfully bringing men back from landing on the moon, the astronauts, spacecraft, and all the samples from the moon...
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Book review: Cuisine and Empire
[Header: Illustration of meal in 1500s Mexico from the Florentine Codex.] People began cooking our food maybe two million years ago and have not stopped since. Cooking is almost a cultural universal....
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Internet Harvest (2024, 1)
Internet Harvest is a selection of the most succulent links on the internet that I’ve recently plucked from its fruitful boughs. Feel free to discuss the links in the comments. Biosecurity US COVID...
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Carl Sagan, nuking the moon, and not nuking the moon
In 1957, Nobel laureate microbiologist Joshua Lederberg and biostatician J. B. S. Haldane sat down together imagined what would happened if the USSR decided to explode a nuclear weapon on the moon....
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