If you understand the functional purpose of this getup, you’re an old-timer like me who was willing to work around stupid restrictions. (Hint: often, the lever part of a nail clipper could achieve the same ultimate goal.) Oh yes—that’s an RJ-11 phone jack, not an Ethernet port. What’s it for!

Unpacking after a move is like one of those 15-sliding-pieces in a 16-square frame puzzles.

As usual, I'm enjoying #PLSC. But I worry that I violated some Los Angeles municipal law by walking the mile from my hotel to the venue—walking that far definitely seems to be Not Done around here…

"Asked in the documentary what message she had for people today, she replied, “Be engaged. And don’t accept any order that your conscience could not approve.”"

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Marthe Cohn, a Jewish spy in Nazi Germany, dies at 105 | Flipboard

The Washington Post - Aided by her blond hair, blue eyes and fluency in German, she crossed enemy lines to spy on Germany for the French. She later...

During college, I worked for a year at an IBM facility right next to the Columbia campus. Garwin had an office there with a big safe. The safe had a sign on it saying "Capacitance-Operated Alarm—Keep 4 foot distance". Now I know why…

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A Scientist Fighting Nuclear Armageddon Hid a 50-Year Secret | Flipboard

The New York Times - Enrico Fermi’s battle with cancer was nearing its end in late 1954 when he received a visitor. Fermi, a Nobel laureate in ph...