A hard paywall seems quite appropriate for a paper on diamonds.

But it’d be nice to read it.

Thanks lovely piece of work.

I couldn't find Yuzu, I guess I could have looked at the source JSON file, worked out the co-ordinates that find it on the chart, if its there.

Yuzu seems to be having a bit of a moment, like pistachio nuts.

According to wikipedia they are cultivated from a hybrid of mandarin orange and Ichang papeda, the latter being from another wild lineage than the three shown.

Indeed, thanks.

This takes the citrus gram into 3D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papeda_(citrus)

You might need several more dimensions (assuming this quoted claim is correct - it does come with a Citation Needed)

> Recent genetic analysis shows the papedas to be distributed among distinct branches of the Citrus phylogenetic tree, and hence Swingle's proposed subgenus is polyphyletic and not a valid taxonomic grouping, but the term persists as a common name.

Good point, as ever.

So what would be interesting is an interdimensional citrus fruit.

From what I can tell, the papeda is included as a sort of addendum in the bottom right corner of the chart.

Did they just skip over the £325k of subsidy?

It makes sense to do that, clean air, and build up a market for the vehicles, but just to gloss over it is rather tedious.

Businesses aren't the ones who are paying for that subsidy, so from a business perspective the fact that you are using a subsidy is irrelevant.

From a society perspective, the fact that switching to electric trucks saves a business $160k over its 6-year lifespan with a $325k subsidy shows that the subsidies can probably be lowered to $165k already - with the remaining purchase price gap probably better covered by something like a low-interest loan.

In a larger context, this pricing is before mass-manufacturing of electric semi trucks has properly scaled up yet, and it isn't yet accounting for the ~203 tonnes of CO2 which aren't being emitted over those 6 years which should probably be taxed.

I agree that skipping over the subsidy for a quick headline is irresponsible, but altogether the gap between diesel and EV has been shrinking quite significantly. It makes me cautiously optimistic that in the next decade we will start seeing mass adoption of EV trucks purely for economic reasons.

Original title:

“‘I clicked on a button – and everything changed’: how a DNA test turned my life upside-down”

On the Underground there were two carriages for smokers, they were usually a bit more empty, and they were browned with tar on the walls and ceiling.

The ban on smoking on the Underground was after the second tube station fire when they realised it might be dangerous, there was also a football stadium that caught fire around the same time too.

The root cause seem to be a build up of rubbish, along with a cigarette but starting it.

So many tragedies in the mid-eighties UK.

Really, naming something after yourself like this.

Maybe we need a Wanker’s Law.

Paper in question:

“Urban mining by flash Joule heating”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26038-9

This sounds astonishing

London has the new SuperLoop buses, with fewer stops, maybe this article and the SuperLoop are born out of the same idea.

When every breath is a Turing test, AmIBotOrNot?

I’m waiting for a Philip K. Dick bot to declare me non-human.

Am I the only one who in a Captcha test sometimes wants a different option for the “I am Human” check box? Ironically really since to prove we’re human we have to check the boxes with a crossing in them, no account to be made of people who call them zebra crossings.