White paper of the week: Duke University goes to absurd lengths to block other people’s trademark applications.
↩︎ Marginal Revolution
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Stories from community healthcare facilities in rural Mississippi with deep ties to the civil rights movement.
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Front offices across baseball swear by a book about cognitive psychology by a winner of the Nobel Prize in economics.
↩︎ The New York Times
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A slogan of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Greater Los Angeles is “Dare Mighty Things,” and a French student and his father figured out that it was encoded inside Perseverance’s parachute.
“dare mighty things” ! Well done! @NASA @NASAPersevere pic.twitter.com/Di1hkFQApd
— Abela_Paf (@FrenchTech_paf) February 22, 2021
A variation on the explanation:
So you know how NASA sent a secret message to Mars?@FrenchTech_paf figured it out. ????
Dare mighty things ??? pic.twitter.com/HIO2BUVjNd
— Emily Calandrelli (@TheSpaceGal) February 23, 2021
Britain’s four remaining coal-burning power plants are zombies, all but dead. Within a couple of years they will be closed and Britain will probably never burn coal for electricity again.
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A sweeping new Covid-19 data platform offers access to more than 5 million anonymized records from 160 countries.
↩︎ STAT
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Expect to see this mail truck prowling your neighborhood in the next couple years.
↩︎ Jalopnik
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A photographic tribute to Tehran’s rugged Alborz mountains.
↩︎ Manuel Diestro
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A report finds that high-profile crimes with Asian American victims in Oakland were more likely about opportunity than racism.
↩︎ Oaklandside
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