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jammer06 said:
Yep this kid is probably going places

Vancouver teen engineers bacteria to win top prize at biggest school contest
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Too bad engineering a more efficient bacteria from Grade 9–12 doesn't allow time for other things. Oh, wait…

Mr. Wang, who last year won a Canada-wide science fair in Fredericton, N.B., plays basketball with his friends for fun while preparing to study engineering at Princeton this fall.

In Grade 10, he was among the winners of an international piano competition called Golden Key, and flew to Vienna for a recital of young composers.
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jammer06 said:
Yep this kid is probably going places

Vancouver teen engineers bacteria to win top prize at biggest school contest
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LetTigerIn said:
Too bad engineering a more efficient bacteria from Grade 9–12 doesn't allow time for other things. Oh, wait…
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My big accomplishment is high school was memorizing The Raven, most of which I've forgotten by now.

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jammer06 said:
Oh the perils of living in an economically strong city.....

Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco apartments

the cliffs notes version here

A guy just transcribed 30 years of for-rent ads. Here’s what it taught us about housing prices
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The initial research is interesting. The second article, however, is faulty in bringing the rent control into the discussion. The data in the research is for apartment listings, not actual rents being paid, so tenants continuing to live in rent-controlled circumstances are not part of the data.

What I do like about the second article are the bits about the rewards or perils of development or the the lack thereof. Much food for thought there.
 
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ChilledAgua said:
Next item on the New Horizons agenda -

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/05/18/new-horizons-studies-its-first-mysterious-distant-space-object-after-pluto/
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Slightly off-topic, but New Horizons is a terrible name for a space project. Upon seeing it, I immediately flash back to to some terrible '70s or '80s commercials, but I can't remember for what? A dating service? An old folks home? A sex-change clinic? Adult diapers? Even if it's none of those, the name has probably been used as a business name by all of those and more.
 
LetTigerIn said:
Slightly off-topic, but New Horizons is a terrible name for a space project. Upon seeing it, I immediately flash back to to some terrible '70s or '80s commercials, but I can't remember for what? A dating service? An old folks home? A sex-change clinic? Adult diapers? Even if it's none of those, the name has probably been used as a business name by all of those and more.
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I vaguely recall the name; the first thing that popped into my head was a "Detox Mansion" (as Warren Zevon's song calls them) rehab place.

Or the mission founders might just be Moody Blues fans...
 
Warning this is a Looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong ****ing article but I had a copy of it in his book "Some Remarks" and after reading the book about the creation of the ARPAnet it was a great followup:

Mother Earth Mother Board

It's from 1996 but a great review about where the internet is from and where it's going. It also contains one of the greatest insults of all time.
 
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