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Geodesic vacuum chambers
Geodesic vacuum chambers / Fuller cloud nine Why the fuck do we not already have this!? A simple spherical container holding vacuum which acts as a superboyant balloon or skyhook.
Mushrooms from Restaurant Waste
Develop a mycoculture experiment involving restaurant waste
Simple durable mylar outerwear
Simple durable mylar outerwear
Wiki Dump => GT/IPFS
There needs to be a distributed non-hierarchical way to access the dumps of Wikipedia. Something like GitTorrent or InterplanetaryFileSystem needs to be developed to distribute the contents of Wikipedia, especially the abstracts. This would make it so much easier to do something like Librarian. It would be able to mirror everything in the encyclopedia and… Continue reading Wiki Dump => GT/IPFS
Sapiens By Yuval Harari
This book covers big history from the big bang to today, with an emphasis on our species, and the other species of humans who we originally coexisted with. The book covers theories about what happened to our cousins, as well as what happened to every ecosystem we moved into. The book goes on to talk… Continue reading Sapiens By Yuval Harari
Social Problems: Policy Analysis
CJ Trowbridge Professor Jeffrey Sacha SOC 301: Social Problems 2018-12-11 Social Problems: Policy Analysis Midterm Imagine a child being forced to have sex up to twenty times a night by a trusted friend or significant other. This is a very typical situation for thousands of children being sex trafficked on a daily basis throughout California.… Continue reading Social Problems: Policy Analysis
When We Rise By Cleve Jones
I found this book inspiring for many reasons. I know many of the people and places in the story, so it has been intense to see so many of my friends’ roles in the story of gay liberation. It’s also interesting to see so many of the problems from before the movement still present today;… Continue reading When We Rise By Cleve Jones
Social Justice: Final Paper
CJ Trowbridge 2018-12-04 SOC 110: Social Justice Social Justice: Final Paper I have talked to many people who feel that their vote doesn’t count. In the words of Rules For Radicals author Saul Alinsky, these people are “copping out” and refusing to participate. A self-fulfilling prophecy of nihilism is their response to troubling social conditions.… Continue reading Social Justice: Final Paper
BT>HTTP
research adding bittorrent protocol to progressive offline bootstrap service workers It should not be this hard to use bittorrent as a protocol in browsers and especially in html5 apps. It should be just as easy to bootstrap service workers versus btsync. There is just no reason for servers to exist. This is low-key terrifying because… Continue reading BT>HTTP