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Supercentenarian

someone who has reached the age of 110 years or more, something achieved by only 0.1% of centenarians. Furthermore, only 2% of supercentenarians live to be 115.

2014-11-13: Polygenic Supercentenarians, meaning that there isn’t a smoking gun simple enough for our currently primitive understanding.

We found no significant evidence of enrichment for a single rare protein-altering variant or for a gene harboring different rare protein altering variants in supercentenarian compared to control genomes

2023-09-08: Occam’s razor says bad record keeping

the number of of extremely old people is positively correlated with poverty, shorter average life spans and illiteracy. All factors which are difficult to explain if we think these factors are causally related to health but which make sense if we think that the explanation is unreliable birth and death records. Supercentenarian birthdates also exhibit patterns such as age-heaping that are “strongly indicative of manufactured birth data.”

Menu Danger

Menu littering is a huge problem in New York City. The increasingly competitive takeout and delivery industry hires their delivery guys during off hours to foist menus under the doors of apartment dwellers. It is now routine to come home to a pile of duplicate menus on my door mat — not only annoying but a total waste of paper. Moreover, buildings routinely get fined by the city’s department of sanitation if the menus are left near the front door of the building.

Suborbital Balloons

SABLE-3 was launched on August 11th, 2007 with a payload, consisting of a Nikon Coolpix P2 digital camera set to take 1 image every minute and a Byonics MicroTrak 300 APRS Tracker, that the Kaysam 1200 gram balloon carried to 36km. The last payload camera photo from the ground was just before it was launched, and the last photo before the balloon burst was the photo above, exactly 2½ hours or 150 images later. And what a photo. The composition couldn’t have been better or the horizon more level and out of the 196 images taken during the flight, only 1 other image is as good. What are the chances?

totally awesome. there’s a few more of these:

My project launched a payload with GPS, camera, sensors and communications to an altitude of 30km.

Pictures taken with a Pentax k10d from a high-altitude sounding balloon. Experiment conducted by Oklahoma State University while testing a new cosmic radiation detector.

Weave

Weave will focus on finding ways to enhance the Firefox user experience, increase user control over personal information, and provide new opportunities for developers to build innovative online experiences.

netscape roaming profiles are finally coming back

Giant Hoax

5 years ago, “IronKite” submitted this wonderful photo illustration to a Worth1000.com Photoshop contest on the theme of “Archaeological Anomalies.” The powerful picture was transformed into an Internet urban legend about the National Geographic Society’s discovery of the remains of giant humans in India. Several media outlets reported the story as fact. To this day, the National Geographic Society continues to receive international inquiries about this race of giants.