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Ball Lightning Caught on Camera in Alberta

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Toby on Why Her Book Isn't Available on Amazon

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You can order a signed copy from https://tibees.com . See the full explanation on  Toby Hendy has Published Her Book: A Guide to Making Friends in the Fourth Dimension .  Subscribe to Tibees . 

Another Sub-project Inspired by the 2PI502

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The Raspberry PI Pico has some UART interfaces that you can use to do asynchronous serial communications using three or five wires. These are based on the ARM PrimeCell UART and are quite capable of running at 2Mbps, so good enough for processing a stereo CD Digital Audio  stream, which needs just 1,411,200 bps, over a USB 2.0 connection. The Pico UARTs have 32 character Tx/Rx FIFOs which can be directly connected to DMA channels. There is an example of using DMA channels to transfer a packet stream over a UART . The notable thing here is that, because the hardware does almost all of the work, the amount of programming necessary is minimal: all that is involved is setting up some registers to configure the UART and the two DMA channels. I was surprised that there is no library for running an error-corrected session layer over such a link. The FreeRTOS library provides no such facility, and it will be awkward to implement something like this because it cuts across a lot of the str...

John Baez on Symmetric Monoidal Categories A Rosetta Stone and Noson S. Yanofsky on Diagonalization, Fixed Points, and Self-reference

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Talk given at Topos Institute Finding the Right Abstractions Summit, 2021:   See Jenann Ismael - Laplace meets Godel: How Self reference Foils Prediction . Subscribe to Topos Institute . Yanofsky is an excellent lecturer  42:06 See Paulo Santos' talk on Yablo's Paradox .  See these two papers: N.S. Yanofsky  A Universal Approach to Self-Referential Paradoxes F. William Lawvere Diagonal arguments and cartesian closed categories with author commentary .  Subscribe to  Weizsäcker-Zentrum Universität Tübingen . This lecture by John Baez was just one of several really interesting talks:     In particular Evan Patterson's short introduction to Categorical Logic: Subscribe to Topos Institute .

Bolivia’s Cholita skaters ImillaSkate fight for gender equality and indigenous pride with clothing

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When I was passing through Paris on the Metro last year I saw a poster of a photograph of two skateboarders in La Paz, I think. It was an exhibition of pictures by an American photographer. It was really beautiful. Subscribe to Nowness . 

Julia Buenaventura - Cómo Carrington llegó a México

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It's an amazing and horrendous story, but it had several happy endings! Her final comment is what prompted her to make the video, I guess, because Carrington's painting  Les Distractions de Dagobert  had just been sold for US$28.5 million to Eduardo Costantini, the founder of MALBA, the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires. Subscribe to Julia Buenaventura .

Toby on Mirror Life

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See her Patreon post . I think this is the report:  Technical Report on Mirror Bacteria: Feasibility and Risks .

Craig Murray on RAF Financing

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This is amazing! The RAF leases fighter jets from Polygon, part of Tetragon , based in Guernsey. The government is going to have paid out £8 billion in finance charges by the time the deal ends. See  George Monbiot - Sharing This Video Could Get You 14 Years in Prison .  Subscribe to George Galloway . 

Jason Kridner talking About BeagleBoard.org and Software Development

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See  https://www.beagleboard.org/ : The BeagleBoard.org Foundation is a Michigan, USA-based 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation existing to provide education in and collaboration around the design and use of open-source software and hardware in embedded computing. Some more about FUBS : they're using  BeaglePlay  as a development platform: TI Sitara AM625 system-on-chip with 1.4GHz quad-core Arm Cortex-A53, PRU and M4 microcontrollers, Gigabit Ethernet, full-size HDMI, USB, 5GHz, 2.4GHz and sub-1GHz wireless, and single-pair Ethernet with power-over-data-line. Subscribe to FUTO .