Soh Kam Yung / is on Nostr

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2024-07-05 12:44:19

"Researchers have developed a chemical-processing technique that can break down fabrics into reusable molecules, even when they contain a mixture of materials.
The process, outlined in a Science Advances paper on 3 July, shows that chemical recycling can give old textiles a new lease of life. If scaled up, it could help to tackle the growing mountain of waste generated by the fashion industry"
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02210-1
#Clothes #Fabrics #Recycling #Chemistry #Research

2024-07-04 12:39:09

Wonderful.
"Footage captured from a boat off the Isle of Mull shows a "miracle" white-tailed eagle chick in flight, after it was nursed back to health by two unusually caring parents.
In an unprecedented display of extended eagle parenting, the two white-tailed parents skipped this year's breeding season to continue to tend to their year-old offspring."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c047gl9zyx3o
#Birds #Eagles #Nature #Parenting

2024-06-12 13:05:03

An unlikely hero for Chinese soccer.
"Thailand were at home, desperate to qualify, and facing a Singapore side that had nothing to play for having failed to win a single game in the group.
But then, up stepped an unlikely savior: Singapore’s veteran goalkeeper, Hassan Sunny.
[...]
Thanks to Sunny, the Chinese national team had squeaked through into the next round by the tiniest of margins."
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1015314
#Soccer #China #Singapore #Sports

2024-05-29 13:03:32

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My local library's Overdrive platform has the book. Already on loan, so I'll have to wait for it to be available before I can borrow it.

2024-05-29 12:47:40

"Thomas S. Mullaney’s new book, The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age, published by the MIT Press, unearths the forgotten history of Chinese input in the 20th century. In this article, which was adapted from an excerpt of the book, he details the varied Chinese input systems of the 1960s and ’70s that renounced QWERTY altogether."
https://spectrum.ieee.org/chinese-keyboard
#Typewriters #History #EastAsia #CJK #Technology #Engineering #InputSystems

2024-05-27 12:20:20

"After 18 years of painstaking research – involving scouring numerous obscure lists and consulting unusual sources, as well as extrapolating from vague, fragmentary and handwritten notes – we have finally completed the task of cataloguing the contents of Darwin’s enormous library. We now know that Darwin’s library contained 7,494 unique titles across 13,000 volumes/items."
https://biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/vol-20/issue-2/jul-sep-2024/charles-darwin-library/
#CharlesDarwin #Library #Reference #History #Books #Publications

2024-05-08 13:47:07

"The insect world is full of species of parasitic wasps that spend their infancy eating other insects alive. And for reasons that scientists don’t fully understand, they have repeatedly adopted and tamed wild, disease-causing viruses and turned them into biological weapons. Half a dozen examples already are described, and new research hints at many more."
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/parasitoid-wasps-domesticate-viruses
#Nature #Biology #Wasps #Parasitoids #Viruses #Evolution

2024-04-25 12:24:34

"Only eight out of almost 21,000 bee species in the world die when they sting. Another subset can’t sting at all, and the majority of bees can sting as often as they want. But there’s even more to it than that."
https://theconversation.com/most-bees-dont-die-after-stinging-and-other-surprising-bee-facts-227162
#Bees #Biology #Behaviour #Nature

2024-04-11 05:09:36

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Ah, the issue which features "Franchise" by Isaac Asimov, where the results of a US election was decided by a computer (Multivac) asking just one person some questions.
From the way current LLM AIs are being promoted, this is probably the future soon. 🙂

2023-12-25 22:47:33

This has being causing quite a stir in the Singapore birding community. A King Bird-of-Paradise (Cicinnurus regius) spotted recently in the forest. Native to New Guinea, it is probably an escapee.
Photo taken by sebastianow on iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/194641409 ]
#iNaturalist #Singapore #Birds #NewGuinea
https://media.mstdn.io/mstdn-media/media_attachments/files/111/643/469/316/327/255/original/46ff925f65fb5815.jpeg