Last 7 Reads ( 9/12/2023 )

[🌎] Scientists immediately understood how they could use Miyake events to precisely date historic occurrences or specimens. https://daily.jstor.org/the-carrington-event-of-1859-disrupted-telegraph-lines/

[🏎️] Students from ETH Zurich and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts have broken the previous world record for acceleration with their hand-?built electric racing car, mythen. The vehicle accelerated from zero to 100 km/h in 0.956 seconds over a distance of 12.3 metres. https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2023/09/from-zero-to-one-hundred-in-0-956-seconds.html

[🎓] Last year’s freshman class at Tulane was nearly two-thirds female. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/magazine/men-college-enrollment.html

[🎹] Press any of the keys on your keyboard, in slow rhythm http://touchpianist.com/

[🎼] The thing about writing songs for me — I’ve never felt I was very good about writing anything that dealt with happiness because I don’t think happiness is very interesting. https://www.vulture.com/article/bernie-taupin-in-conversation.html

[🤖] As customers ask whether they can use Microsoft’s Copilot services and the output they generate without worrying about copyright claims, we are providing a straightforward answer: yes, you can, and if you are challenged on copyright grounds, we will assume responsibility for the potential legal risks involved. https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2023/09/07/copilot-copyright-commitment-ai-legal-concerns/

[🚂] However, if you are using brute force, you will be able to put 13 curved rails in a circle, but that way the track is too much under tension, and it's probably not good for the duplo pieces. https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/122232/is-this-duplo-train-track-under-too-much-tension