Encounter #47: Butterflies and Unicorns

Rare Encounter

Episode • Jun 3, 2021 • 59m

Encounter #47: Butterflies and Unicorns

Capsule living, dastardly deliveries, and getting baseballed all night long.

Executive producer: IcyGrillz

Show Notes

Medieval Blacksmith 21325 | Ideas

Tech news

Because if Grumpy Old Bens doesn't, we will!

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Windows 10's package manager flooded with duplicate, malformed apps

Microsoft to announce Windows 10's successor on June 24

Whatever happened to Steven Sinofsky?

Andreessen Horowitz - Wikipedia

DoorDash drops the money ball

DoorDash App Glitch Makes Some Delivery Drivers Think They've Made Thousands, Others Think They're in the Red | Inside Edition

“My jaw dropped when I saw over $3,000 in my account,” said a DoorDash driver from Northern California, who thought the company may be giving him backpay, VICE reported.

Doordash glitch gives thousands to drivers then takes it back

“You cannot transfer because you currently owe -$6,339.32,” read a message displayed by the app.
Doordash deliverers, which the company does not classify as employees, vented their frustration with the situation online.

“We aren’t employees to [Doordash],” wrote one member of the Reddit forum. “We’re officially slaves to them.”

Goodbye to the Future: The Last Days of Tokyo's Nakagin Capsule Tower | JAPAN Forward

One of the most cyberpunk looking buildings ever made will soon be torn down for new development.

How the future used to look. (Photo by N.W.)

Potatoes and the smell of fear

Hebrew University of Jerusalem Research team introduced a new gene into potato plants coded to create a fluorescent protein in the chloroplast. The amount of florescence of the protein depends one the amount of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the potato plant. ROS includes super-oxide and hydrogen peroxide.

Superoxide AKA negative ions of molecular oxygen, (O-) is generated when anything bad happens to the plant (virus, cuttings, too much sunlight)
Superoxide half life is < 1 second, decays into hydrogen peroxide, AKA (HO)