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Women scientists made up 25% of the Pluto fly-by New Horizon team. Make sure you share this, because erasing women’s achievements in science and history is a tradition. Happens every day.

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http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150712

FastMail has been on a roll lately. In the past 12 months they've added CalDAV and a terrific web app for calendaring, CardDAV support of contact management and syncing, IMAP Notes support and now comes the long awaited IMAP email push.

Push email will happen automatically for existing users and if you already have iOS configured with FastMail IMAP, you'll just start benefiting from the change without doing anything extra.

This month marks the 2-year anniversary for FastMail and I. It's been my sole provider for personal email in that time. All of my other accounts route to FastMail and they handle all server-side mail rules, spam filtering and syncing to every device. Their web app is fantastic and their support has always been excellent for me.

If you want to check out FastMail and support this site at the same time, here's a referral link that costs you nothing.

The Wolfram API now handles email processing and this post describes some mail rules beyond anything you've probably ever seen.

Now I can subscribe to the mailing list as “receiver+5DHCTKhQ@wolframcloud.com,” and I will only receive messages about tables. But I can do better. Why not search messages for the price and create a log with the information I want? The function func below will run in my Wolfram Cloud account every time the mail receiver address receives an email

I wish I was like 10X smarter so I could use the Wolfram Language for more than dinking around.

By way of John D. Cook

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A small linux framebuffer virtual terminal.

Octoprint is a Raspberry Pi printer server. via woodsy

I use a Makerbot Replicator 2X for 3D printing, but recently added a Lulzbot Taz5 for its bigger build space.
The Makerbot has its own workflow for slicing and I tend to use it as a stand-alone printer, printing from its SD card.

For the Lulzbot, I really wanted something better, so I decided to build a print server and have the Lulzbot be remotely connected over WiFi.
I’d already heard of Octoprint, and since I had some Raspberry Pi B+ boards handy, decided to use that combination.

Octoprint can also support a camera to remotely monitor the build progress – which I thought was fantastic.
I downloaded the OctoPi image for Raspberry Pi from Octoprint and got the Pi booted and setup.
Initially using an Ethernet connection, I added a USB WiFi dongle and tested the camera, etc;

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Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!

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Exciting news for Philip K Dick fans! From The Guardian:

A boy and his family leave Earth on a “gentle” quest to save his cat, Horace – not the kind of manuscript you might expect from the “Shakespeare of science fiction”, Philip K Dick. But five decades after Dick’s publisher turned down the only children’s novel the author ever wrote, and more than 20 years since it fell out of print in the UK, Nick and the Glimmung will be brought to a new audience later this year.

Dick sent the manuscript to Doubleday in the late 1960s alongside his acclaimed time-slippage story for adults, Ubik, but his editor decided to decline. Nick and the Glimmung found a publisher in 1988, six years after its author’s death, but slid out of print around 1990. A limited run was produced by the US publisher Subterranean Press in 2008, but has since sold out. Gollancz are now due to release a UK edition in September 2015.

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Food for the brain? A bartender and her neurologist father walked us through, among other things, an ungarnished martini (back right), an Old Fashioned (front left), and a Brandy Alexander (front right).

Nathan Mattise

NEW ORLEANS—A world-renowned cocktail conference may sound like a giant party (well, because it is to some extent), but increasingly the annual Tales of the Cocktail gathering of the alcohol industry doubles as the nerdiest pilgrimage for those wanting to know more about the drinks they love.

Where else would Dr. Max Wiznitzer, an accomplished child neurologist and former National Institute of Health fellow, be joined onstage by his daughter Pamela, an accomplished creative director and bartender at a Manhattan cocktail spot called Seamstress? The duo closed four days of informational seminars by walking a room full of industry professionals through how the brain responds to and processes cocktails.

Perhaps the average barkeep doesn't need to know that the body contains more than 350 receptor proteins solely to process smell (detecting more than half a million odorants, any of which may bind to these proteins for all of a millisecond). But that knowledge coincided nicely with Pamela Wiznitzer's recommendations to carefully consider the aroma of your garnishes. When possible, use scents that intentionally clash with a drink's ultimate flavor (thus creating an alluring complexity).

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The Nationals are hosting their first ever Star Wars Day, and part of that includes Luke Skywalker handling the groundskeeping.

Who knew groundskeeping was part of Jedi training? #NatsStarWarsDay pic.twitter.com/8kiXs3yDLK

— MLB (@MLB) July 19, 2015

Okay, so that's pretty cool. Know what isn't cool? The presidents are dressed up as Star Wars characters and they ... look ... terrifying.

Know how to dress up for the occasion, our Presidents do. #NatsStarWarsDay pic.twitter.com/4bCvM7b4ZT

— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) July 19, 2015

Call me "Tedbacca" #NatsStarWarsDay pic.twitter.com/0wVX5004NA

— Teddy Roosevelt (@Teddy26Nats) July 19, 2015

Great fun on a hot Star Wars Day #instanats pic.twitter.com/Tt2Rv0uSUV

— Janet Sifers (@JanetSifers) July 19, 2015

GET THOSE OUT OF HERE.

We don't always have rain delays but when we do things get weird... pic.twitter.com/YTNcXnJ3Zh

— San Diego Padres (@Padres) July 19, 2015

The San Diego Padres were down 0-1 against the visiting Colorado Rockies. Though a run to tie the game would have been nice to see for everyone in attendance, fans got more than that. They got rain. Lots of it. Enough for a rain delay in drought-stricken California in July.

Even the Padres organization was pretty shocked that this #RainDelay happened.

Rain Delay at Petco park watching #Rockies vs #padres #SDinHD pic.twitter.com/dNIL33UOIw

— Rob Green (@DspSphinx) July 19, 2015

While the crew covered the field with the tarp, fans did the only logical thing — they took their shirts off and danced!

Dancing in the rain at the #Rockies #Padres game! pic.twitter.com/oLzF49MajP

— Andrea Fowler (@fowler813) July 19, 2015

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litlanac:

simple and effective ways to deal with stress include AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!! AHHHHH!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

deeerssketchblog:

I think crows will be the next dominant species on this planet

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curiouschiroptera:

In collaboration with the Quileute Tribe, this site seeks to inform Twilight fans, parents, teachers, and others about the real Quileute culture, which indeed has a wolf origin story, a historic relationship with the wolf as demonstrated in songs, stories, and various art forms, as well as a modern, multi-dimensional community with a sophisticated governance system. We also hope to offer a counter narrative to The Twilight Saga’s stereotypical representations of race, class, and gender, and offer resources for a more meaningful understanding of Native American life and cultures.

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A new article reports the findings from a longitudinal study that followed 667 women who had early- and later-term abortions for three years after their procedure. Dr. Corinne Rocca and her colleagues asked women if they felt that the abortion was the “right decision” at one week and approximately every six months thereafter.

This is your image of the week:

Percent of women reporting that abortion was the right decision over three years:

Over 99% of the women said that the abortion was the right decision at every time point. The line that looks like the upper barrier of the graph? That’s the data.

Overall, measures of negative emotions were relatively low — an average score of under 4 on a 16-point scale at one week and declining to about 2 at three years — and were higher for women who had a more difficult time deciding whether to get an abortion or who subsequently had planned pregnancies. Whether the abortion occurred in the first trimester or near the legal limit did not correlate with emotional response.

In contrast, women reported twice as many positive emotions at one week. Over time, positive feelings about the abortion declined along with negative ones, suggesting that the experience became less emotionally charged overall with distance from the procedure.

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thecalerianking:

thecalerianking:

so im trying to decipher this chart on wikipedia that has common vampire weaknesses in it and

a ‘green/yes’ is a weakness, a ‘red/no’ is something that isnt a weakness, and a ‘?’ is something that has never been addressed but fucking riddle me this

in what lore are vampires weak to getting soggy in milk

i scrolled over to check to see what this could possibly be and

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hobbitology:

voiceofnature:

Amazingly surreal Las Pozas in the rainforest by Xilitla in the Mexico mountains. Created by Edward James in the 40′s, it includes more than 80 acres of natural waterfalls and pools interlaced with towering surrealist sculptures and buildings. The many trails throughout the garden site are composed of steps, ramps, bridges and narrow, winding walkways that traverse the valley walls. It was supposed to be a “Garden of Eden” containing a huge variety of plants and animals. 

those look like elven ruins

No those are definitely elven ruins

new aesthetic: surrealist naturalism

forgetpolitics:

Princess Mononoke (1997) | Dir. Hayao Miyazaki

everything I want in life