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Jul. 2nd, 2020 10:10 pm1. Patent Racism via NPR.
" During the 30-year period after slavery was abolished, when Black Americans owned property and held public office, they filed for patents in numbers equal with white and native inventors -- inventing everything from engines to telephone systems to elevators. But after the segregationist ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1900, Black patenting fell sharply, with many Black inventors being denied access to schools, libraries, fired from jobs in commercial districts, and excluded from communication with other inventors. And after the 1921 massacre of the Black Wall Street -- the Green-Wood community in Tulsa -- patent filings all across the country dropped precipitously again. This event proved that all systems of justice would not provide even the most basic protections to Black Americans -- not for their lives, not for their property.
The economic impact of the more than 1,000 lost patents would have been equivalent to a medium-sized European nation."
2. NYC Mayor once again tries to determine when NYC Schools will re-open, when the Governor states, eh, sorry, I still decided that not you, you idiot. (Sigh. I dislike the Mayor. It's rare that I like the NYC Mayor.)
3. Inside the Coronavirus
"In the graphics that follow, Scientific American presents detailed explanations, current as of mid-June, into how SARS-CoV-2 sneaks inside human cells, makes copies of itself and bursts out to infiltrate many more cells, widening infection. We show how the immune system would normally attempt to neutralize virus particles and how CoV-2 can block that effort. We explain some of the virus's surprising abilities, such as its capacity to proofread new virus copies as they are being made to prevent mutations that could destroy them. And we show how drugs and vaccines might still be able to overcome the intruders. As virologists learn more, we will update these graphics on our Web site (www.scientificamerican.com)."
4. Archaeologists Have a Lot of Dates Wrong for North American Indigenous History But They are Using New Techniques to Get it Right
5. How Wrinkle in Time Changed Sci-Fi Forever
6. 19 Things You're Kitchen Doesn't Really Need ?
" During the 30-year period after slavery was abolished, when Black Americans owned property and held public office, they filed for patents in numbers equal with white and native inventors -- inventing everything from engines to telephone systems to elevators. But after the segregationist ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1900, Black patenting fell sharply, with many Black inventors being denied access to schools, libraries, fired from jobs in commercial districts, and excluded from communication with other inventors. And after the 1921 massacre of the Black Wall Street -- the Green-Wood community in Tulsa -- patent filings all across the country dropped precipitously again. This event proved that all systems of justice would not provide even the most basic protections to Black Americans -- not for their lives, not for their property.
The economic impact of the more than 1,000 lost patents would have been equivalent to a medium-sized European nation."
2. NYC Mayor once again tries to determine when NYC Schools will re-open, when the Governor states, eh, sorry, I still decided that not you, you idiot. (Sigh. I dislike the Mayor. It's rare that I like the NYC Mayor.)
3. Inside the Coronavirus
"In the graphics that follow, Scientific American presents detailed explanations, current as of mid-June, into how SARS-CoV-2 sneaks inside human cells, makes copies of itself and bursts out to infiltrate many more cells, widening infection. We show how the immune system would normally attempt to neutralize virus particles and how CoV-2 can block that effort. We explain some of the virus's surprising abilities, such as its capacity to proofread new virus copies as they are being made to prevent mutations that could destroy them. And we show how drugs and vaccines might still be able to overcome the intruders. As virologists learn more, we will update these graphics on our Web site (www.scientificamerican.com)."
4. Archaeologists Have a Lot of Dates Wrong for North American Indigenous History But They are Using New Techniques to Get it Right
5. How Wrinkle in Time Changed Sci-Fi Forever
6. 19 Things You're Kitchen Doesn't Really Need ?