And on the rusted lid these words appear:
"WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND
THESE WORKS ARE PATENTED BY KITCHENAIRE"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Many sequences of rRNA remain pretty much the same across all known animals. But Han noticed something unusual in those from the octopus: an unexpected gap that broke what’s usually one rRNA fragment in other creatures into two.

Given how widespread and highly conserved ribosomal RNA is, and how simple the mutation appears to be, it seems unlikely that this is the first time it’s arisen in the whole history of animal life. There must be some other tradeoff that octopuses found a workaround for—maybe it’s related to why they’re so short-lived?

You keep treating this like some kind of game... do you know something the rest of us don’t?

Don’t the Chinese get tired of having every route to their country being named the “X Silk Road”?

The current consensus is that the minimum viable population for most species is between 500 to 1,000 individuals.

The problem isn’t inbreeding depression (you only need about 50 individuals to avoid that)—it’s lack of diversity to adapt to a changing environment. Pathogens would evolve that would wipe out the entire species because they’re too genetically homogeneous.

Angel Down (which won this year's Pulitzer) also does the single-sentence thing.

That article's over 20 years old—I'm not up on the latest findings, but I know there's been major work since then on both the peopling of the Americas and on the importance of genetic diversity.

Pale Fire by Nabokov.

Hmm... the only cited sources in that article for a specific (effective) population size are also over 20 years old—the more recent sources just say it was likely a “small” number.

This article has a lot more detail on the various migration theories, but refrains from any specific size estimates:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopling_of_the_Americas

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

—Eugene Debs

I think legislators purposefully write laws in such a way that their ill effects can plausibly be blamed on lawyers (and that lawyers can spare their friends from the ill effects).

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them:
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

The U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) provides a comprehensive set of standards which guide those who build the U.S. government’s many websites. Its documentation for developers borrows a “2% rule” from its British counterpart:
. . . we officially support any browser above 2% usage as observed by analytics.usa.gov.

Reminder to self to always use FF when visiting .gov sites.

Idealistic people work harder than anyone—for idealistic causes.

They don’t work so hard for companies that betray their idealism.

Pope Francis: ”Today the ugliest danger is gender ideology, which cancels out differences ... Erasing differences is erasing humanity.”

St. Paul: ”There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Jesus Christ.”

The thought of a nuclear reactor running on Windows is terrifying.

“This code is too dangerous for me to look at, so it must be fine.”

Pretty sure that’s Donald Trump—he even discussed his plan to shoot a man on 5th Avenue.

Trump was manipulated into attacking Adelson by another donor, Ike Perlmutter, who "had hoped in vain that Mrs. Adelson would contribute to a rival super PAC that he backs."

It’s like narcissistic parents trying to undermine each other by manipulating their child.

Tesla makes limos now?