Brian Shoemaker

We probably all knew about China’s advances in this area, but I - for one - had not realised that the share coming from the US is no longer any greater than what’s produced in Europe (even excluding U.K.)

We have a 3-year-old goldendoodle, Murphy, and we absolutely love him. However, there are a lot of people who hate doodles. A group of goldendoodle breeders got together to write a new breed standard under a new moniker—the Bearded Retriever. wsj.com/articles/doodl…

Picard Season 3 is fun! But, wow, they have turned the nostalgia up to 11. I expect a future episode will include Riker playing the trombone.

@DKThomp Derek, on the pod you reference a study that indicates the colleges that a student applies to is far more predictive of income than the college the student attended. Can you share the source?

New: I talked to the head of adolescent psychiatry at Georgetown Medical Center about rising teen anxiety: - What's causing it? - What's not causing it? - How can we—teens, parents, citizens—help fix it? Hands down, one of the best eps we've done. open.spotify.com/episode/1vx7dE…

Russia’s occupation of Ukraine is a mix of incompetence and horrific cruelty. I’m grateful for @anneapplebaum’s reporting to keep the urgency of supporting Ukraine front-of-mind. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

I found dozens of old MiniDV tapes that capture the first few years of our kid’s life that I had completely forgotten about. I’m using a series of decreasingly obsolete cable standards to transfer: Firewire 400 to 800 Firewire 800 to Thunderbolt 2 Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3

North America’s biggest sources of electricity by state and province. elements.visualcapitalist.com/biggest-source…

lol who did this

If you haven’t caught the excellent stories by @kashhill on the use of facial recognition at Madison Square Garden, you can listen to her on The Daily this morning. overcast.fm/+oIe-KKQh4

Oh.

Important @nytimes story about the propane industry’s efforts to undermine the push to “electrify everything”. “The movement to electrify everything is rapidly gaining momentum, and poses a substantial threat to the sustainability of our industry.” nytimes.com/2023/01/11/cli…

Important story from @HirokoTabuchi in the NY Times this morning. A propane trade group is running a multi-million dollar ad campaign to convince people heat pumps are bad and fossil fuels are good. They are paying HGTV influencers who aren't disclosing their funding.

Oh, ffs.

A cycling mantis? (Sitting on 2 fern sprouts) 📸 Eco Suparman

Whoever filled out a cougar sighting report and wrote "your mother" under the description drop your @ we just want to talk

Sony owns a patent that would force viewers to exclaim the brand name during commercials to end them.

@SahilBloom The biggest factor improving my sleep was eliminating the post-lunch coffee. It was a tough adjustment, but now I don’t miss it. Curious if you use any devices to measure your sleep. Whoop? Oura?

I’m still terrible about caffeine intake. I have a large black dunkin cold brew in the morning and then another one early afternoon. I’ll *probably* work on it, but I just love it so much I don’t feel particularly motivated to change. 😂😂😂

5 simple habits that have dramatically improved my sleep: - fiction before bed (vs. TV) - AM sunlight + cold exposure - no water before bed - bigger lunch, smaller dinner - 5-minute journaling before bed Simple, free habits that I’ve observed create 95% of the results.

A brilliant overview of Boston Dynamics robots by CNET [📹: buff.ly/3aYjTWG]

Last night I captured an incredibly difficult shot: ISS transiting the moon, while gently kissing Tycho crater as it flies by at 5 miles per second. That crater is 53 miles wide, so while the station almost looks like it's orbiting the moon it's actually 1000x closer to us.