Friday Links!
Leading off this week: How decline of Indian vultures led to 500,000 human deaths. Also, a terrific read: How Kepler’s 400-year-old sunspot sketches helped solve a modern mystery.
From Wally, and it seems like everything is hacked now (and it's exhausting): Hijacked journals are still a threat — here’s what publishers can do about them. This is good advice for all contracts, not just publishing: Evaluating Publishing Contracts: Six Ways You May Be Sabotaging Yourself.
From C. Lee, and Windows 95 saves the day: Archaic Windows version saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with ancient OS. Related, and it's hilarious and embarrassing: After the largest PC outage in history due to buggy software updates, CrowdStrike now offers affected partners a $10 UberEats gift card. This is a fantastic read: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE: THE PIONEER STATISTICIAN. Provocative: Up to 13% of Dementia Cases May Be a Misdiagnosed Treatable Condition. This is very, very bad: Nvidia GPU partners reportedly cheap out on thermal paste, causing 100C hotspot temperatures — cheap paste allegedly degrades in a few months. An excellent read: Toshiba’s Big Technology Export Scandal. Also excellent: Why Italy Fell Out of Love With Cilantro. This is a fascinating video: Eastern vs Western Siegecraft: When the Chinese Besieged a Russian Star Fortress in 1686. In response to cannonballs: A Bucket List of Star Cities Scattered Across our Globe.
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