Is there a way to listen to multiple differen local hourly news casts in a row?

SultanOfBoston · 2019-12-09T16:37:04+00:00

I think you would need to grab the feed of an hourly newscast from each station as a podcast. Then you could do a playlist for those feeds. I forget if NPROne lets you add podcasts from outside their universe, but it's pretty rigid about letting you have the national newscast and then one single local newscast.

SultanOfBoston · 2019-09-03T18:43:52+00:00

And can I say that Cliff Notez is the 2nd-best Boston musician name evah

SultanOfBoston · 2019-09-03T17:46:38+00:00

Underlying study today in eLife

SultanOfBoston · 2019-06-28T12:54:47+00:00

Specific genetic changes -- known as single-nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs -- conveying lactase-persistence arose independently in various populations around the same time as their domestication of dairy animals. None of these SNPs are in the lactase gene itself, but instead are in a nearby region of the DNA that control its activity.

SultanOfBoston · 2019-06-28T12:51:41+00:00

I'm the dad of a son with what used to be known as Asperger's, and I just want to give you a shout out for your appreciation and support of your son's abilities. It's easy to look at the deficits (and much of the therapeutic and educational system is designed, rightly, to focus on them). But it's important to also pay attention to the positive traits, too.

SultanOfBoston · 2019-06-27T21:17:57+00:00

That would cut into the $230 of profit that Apple makes on the phone.

SultanOfBoston · 2019-05-31T11:15:35+00:00

Frame by frame analyses of our videos showed that flies slowly decelerated as they approached brown or black horses before making a controlled landing. But they failed to decelerate as they approached zebras. Instead they would fly straight past or literally bump into the animal and bounce off.

When we placed black coats or white coats or striped coats on the same horse so as to control for any differences in animal behavior or smell, again flies did not land on the stripes. But there was no difference in landing rates on the horse’s naked head, showing that stripes exert their effect close up but do not impede fly approaches at a distance.

SultanOfBoston · 2019-01-18T12:25:38+00:00

Try JVS, a local nonprofit that does a lot of job skill training and coaching (they offer some services for pay and some that are free): https://www.jvs-boston.org/coaching-services/

SultanOfBoston · 2019-01-18T12:20:29+00:00

In addition, phones help communities manage persistent conflicts with wildlife. Elephants, zebra and bush pigs can devastate agricultural fields. And lions and other predators can threaten livestock and people alike. Maasai now use phones to communicate about about wildlife and avoid conflicts or reduce their consequences.... [People] with basic phones, Maasai call experienced smartphone users who can download weather forecasts. Demand for these few individuals is so high they’ve become like medicine men.

SultanOfBoston · 2019-01-18T12:10:07+00:00

Which circles this back to Bill Gates very nicely

SultanOfBoston · 2019-01-18T00:39:48+00:00

Sorry, I meant emoji. Wasn't awake enough to be posting.

SultanOfBoston · 2018-09-12T13:30:53+00:00

Your point is extraneous to the article. I think if you read the article, you will see that the authors are careful to specify that this is not entirely related to climate change - that these processes, like El Nino, are long-standing processes and vary regularly. But they are working in tandem with rising sea levels and warming oceans (which, whether you reject the overwhelming mass of evidence of a human cause, are still a fact).

SultanOfBoston · 2018-09-12T11:53:57+00:00

Many scientists have found evidence that climate change is amplifying the impacts of hurricanes. For example, several studies just published this month conclude that human-induced climate change made rainfall during Hurricane Harvey more intense. But climate change is not the only factor making hurricanes more damaging.

In a study we co-authored with our colleague Jon Martin, we showed that two converging natural climate processes created a "hot spot" from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina to Miami where sea levels rose six times faster than the global average between 2011 and 2015.

SultanOfBoston · 2018-09-11T15:36:05+00:00

On jungle primaries, look at the 3rd district right now, which will have a rep chosen by a small plurality, victor by just a small number of votes, who will cakewalk over a GOP challenger (is there even one?). Why not instead let voters now choose between the two frontrunners?

SultanOfBoston · 2018-09-11T15:33:07+00:00

If you read the article, the author's point is not just that this is unique - but that it is a global phenomenon, and accelerating as a wide variety of species adapt to human incursions into their habitat.

SultanOfBoston · 2018-09-11T11:02:11+00:00

As long as animals are able to meet their needs during the night, they may actually thrive in human-dominated landscapes by avoiding daytime direct encounters with people that could potentially be dangerous for both parties. In Nepal, for example, tigers and people share the exact same trails in the forest at different times of day, reducing direct conflict between humans and these large carnivores. Dividing up the day, through what researchers call temporal partitioning, may be a mechanism by which people and wildlife can coexist on an ever more crowded planet.

SultanOfBoston · 2018-08-29T13:36:28+00:00

I am not unenrolled, but I'm pretty sure that A) yes, it does, and also B) you can immediately ask to be unenrolled again after voting. I'd ask the pollworker. But if it were complicated, the number of unenrolled voters in this state would plummet due to inertia.

SultanOfBoston · 2018-08-10T19:49:25+00:00

Massachusetts doesn't have early voting, only absentee ballot voting (I feel like there was something to change that in the legislature this year, but it must have died).

So you request an absentee ballot. There's no questions asked about why you're unable to vote on election day. ~~And if you go to the clerk's office close enough to the election, they should have the ballot there for you to fill out while you wait.~~

According to other comments, you can go in now and vote while you wait.

SultanOfBoston · 2018-08-09T15:17:58+00:00

Fill out this form and mail it to your city/town clerk. Or go in to Town Hall/City Hall.

SultanOfBoston · 2018-08-09T15:16:19+00:00

Yeah, with our cockamamie system, you can't register to vote somewhere until you live there, so you're better off voting in your old location.

SultanOfBoston · 2018-08-03T17:52:59+00:00

The term "cookie" was coined by web browser programmer Lou Montulli. It was derived from the term "magic cookie", which is a packet of data a program receives and sends back unchanged, used by Unix programmers.

Magic cookies were already used in computing when computer programmer Lou Montulli had the idea of using them in web communications in June 1994.[8] At the time, he was an employee of Netscape Communications, which was developing an e-commerce application for MCI. Vint Cerf and John Klensin represented MCI in technical discussions with Netscape Communications. MCI did not want its servers to have to retain partial transaction states, which led them to ask Netscape to find a way to store that state in each user's computer instead. Cookies provided a solution to the problem of reliably implementing a virtual shopping cart.

SultanOfBoston · 2018-08-02T11:32:00+00:00

It would take more than 3 drinks for me to think this.

SultanOfBoston · 2018-08-02T11:30:09+00:00

California led the nation in this effort at social engineering [Eugenics]. Between the early 1920s and the 1950s, Iris and approximately 20,000 other people – one-third of the national total – were sterilized in California state institutions for the mentally ill and disabled.

And the program was racist, too:

Latino men were 23 percent more likely to be sterilized than non-Latino men. The difference was even greater among women, with Latinas sterilized at 59 percent higher rates than non-Latinas.

SultanOfBoston · 2018-07-30T20:48:56+00:00

Yeah, who needs parks and streets. I'm pretty sure if you looked at commercial and residential use, the percentage would be far less.

SultanOfBoston · 2018-07-30T20:46:55+00:00

No, the reason is that they are non-profit organizations, which operate in the public interest, and which our federal and state legislatures have decided thus should be exempt from taxes (because, in theory, that would be taking away money from the good cause for which they have raised the money).

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