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"A study of the cognitive and psychological effects of outdoor cycling finds equal results for normal bikes and e-bikes" The full study is here, https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0211779 Outside magazine has a great review of the research at…

Fun project purposely playing around the conspiracy theories of HAARP. https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ghosts-in-the-air-glow-haarp-art-project-transmitting-until-march-28/ "The famous HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) antenna array will be transmitting again from March 25 - March 28, 2019. HAARP is an…

Uber conducted a study in Sacramento of its Jump e-bike usage and found more people are renting and riding the bikes than ride share Uber car usage. — Read on www.sacbee.com/news/local/article226640274.html

The darknet's smaller than we thought: The life cycle of Tor Hidden Services Abstract The Tor Darknet is a pseudo-anonymous place to host content online frequently used by criminals to sell narcotics and to distribute…

The first U.S. mission to return samples from an asteroid to Earth, addressing multiple NASA Solar System Exploration objectives. — Read on www.asteroidmission.org/ Once again, landing on asteroids is still awesome.

We watched A Quiet Place the other night. Overall, it was very good and the premise of silence adds to the building suspense. The more we saw of the monsters/aliens, the more I started to…

Absolutely amazing what we're able to do in space these days. Hayabusa2 is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) project to land probes on an asteroid to study their composition in search for clues of…

There are so many reasons to give up the car and get on a bike; here are two more. — Read on www.treehugger.com/bikes/new-studies-show-cycling-healthiest-way-get-around-and-makes-you-thinner.html

A simple question, many confusing answers. As I fantasize about various bicycles to replace the current road bike, I wondered who actually makes what frames for which brands. After looking at many of these frames,…

Around a month ago, I left Cloudflare and went back to HTTP-only sites. Not HTTPS. I did it for my own reasons, mostly performance-related. This is a long, somewhat technical post on my musings about…