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— Owen Williams ⚡️ (@ow) February 12, 2016
Good morning! Let’s talk about computers and science for a moment:
- 70 years ago, six Philly women became the world’s first digital computer programmers.[Philly Voice]
- A hospital in Los Angeles has been operating without access to email or electronic health records for more than a week. Hackers have taken over its computer systems and are demanding 3.6 million in bitcoin for the return of their systems. [The Atlantic]
- A profile on Manfred Mohr, the German artist who wrote computer algorithms to generate what he calls “programed expression”. He talks about his work with the Paris Institute of Meterology’s computer in the 60’s, and his generation of a hypercube, which can only be perceived by a computer and only partially represented in 2D space. [The Guardian]
- Listen to the sound of two black holes colliding. [Motherboard]
- Crap. 3D printing is really not good for your health. [Dezeen]
- How cat hair felled a pair of art forgers. [Science Magazine]
And in other news:
- Disillusioned Museum Admissions Employee Doesn’t Even Believe Own Annual Membership Pitch Anymore. [The Onion]
- Michael Jackson’s pet chimp, Bubbles, is living out his twilight years in Florida. His early life was not ideal for a chimp. [Miami New Times]
- Seriously? Jeb Bush forgot to renew the rights to his domain name. Donald Trump bought it, and now jebbush.com redirects to Donaldtrump.com. [Facebook]
- Jo Broughton’s photographs of empty porn sets are making the rounds. This is a well-established genre. Let’s recall, Laura Carton’s porn locations minus the porn and Christodoulos Panayiotou gay orgy sets after the orgy. [Vantage]
- The roof of Belgium’s historic Cinquantenaire Museum is in such poor condition that the staff has resorted to wrapping artworks in a type of cling wrap to protect them. [The Telegraph]
