I have always loved fish and I have an intense interest to understand how things work. I attended graduate school to pursue my passion in both. But with productive research and journal articles aside, what I learned from my studies extended well beyond my experimental results and drove me to ...
Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband T.J. and their toddler Daniel holding down the home front, Melinek threw herself into the fascinating world of death investigation – performing autopsies, investigating death ...
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HTTP/2 is here, let's optimize!HTTP is, hands down, one of the most important and successful protocols. That said, the use cases it was originally "designed" for have evolved, and the very success of the protocol has also exposed many of its 1.x limitations - e.g. forcing developers to invent many application workarounds (sharding, concatenation, ...
Exploring SF's Natural Springs & CreeksWhich is more likely in San Francisco: wading through a creek or through traffic? Under the right circumstances, either is possible to do. Sometimes, when atmospheric rivers slam the region, we can do both at once, as street gutters fill to capacity. But San Franciscan residents have few if any ...
"Converting Labor Abuse to Sushi" by Brendan RogersNobody signs up to commercial fish for free. It's dangerous, grueling work, with long stints far from home. Yet many job-seeking migrants are basically tricked or forced into becoming slave fishermen. "Sorry, Charlie", indeed. We'll look at how this system works, how this ...
