The Show Notes

Lunch Seagate Archive 8 TB: $280 BJ's Terry Pratchett Small Gods Pyramids Ibuprofen "The maximum amount of ibuprofen for adults is 800 milligrams per dose or 3200 mg per day (4 maximum doses)" The  3-5-3 A380 design OpenRemote Started in 2008 by Marc Fleury Open source project to build home automation systems The Dell XPS 13 "With the 2015 edition of the Dell XPS 13, it's fair to say that PC vendors have not just matched the MacBook Air experience, they've beaten it."

The CASIO FX-850P Alex's first truly personal, portable computer CAN bus Designed to allow microcontrollers and devices to communicate with each other in applications without a host computer Development of the CAN bus started in 1983 Latest spec CAN 2.0 published in 1991

How Apple Makes the Watch China Export marking From  Recommended Reading: The 10,000 Year Explosion : "In fact, many of the genetic variations that 23andMe provides information about are relics of those evolutionary changes. The SNP that confers lactose tolerance, for example, appears to have arisen in Europe about 8,000 years ago among the first people to herd cows and other milk-producing animals . The lactose-digesting variant quickly spread throughout the parts of Eurasia that were ecologically suited to pastoralism." Leaky gut syndrome  "is a proposed condition some health practitioners claim is the cause of a wide range of serious long-term conditions, including diabetes, lupus, and multiple sclerosis. Proponents of leaky gut syndrome state that an altered or damaged bowel lining or gut wall results from poor diet, parasites, infection, or medications, and that this allows substances such as toxins, microbes, undigested food, or waste to leak through. They...

Wednesday A tweet to confort Alex in his views of Palo Alto Terry Pratchett died Lunch Why are we told always to finish a course of antibiotics? Evening XKCD: UV Tesla rear facing seats Home prices The salary you must earn to buy a home in 27 metros San Francisco comes at the top of that list, with a median home price of $743k, and salary needed of $142k. Zillow home value index (maybe a better indication than the median sale price, as it depends what was on the market during the period considered) Manhattan : $1,263,000 San Carlos : $1,354,200 San Francisco : $984,500 Palo Alto : $2,203,900 Foster City : $1,157,300

Safety Video of bus and seat belts Traffic deaths in Taiwan Info hard to come by? This blog post  says "17.5 traffic deaths in Taiwan per every 100,000 people". US has about 10, Switzerland about 4 (per wikipedia ). Aviation Airplane crash in Taipei video Aloha Airlines Flight 243 "was a scheduled Aloha Airlines flight between Hilo and Honolulu in Hawaii. On April 28, 1988, a Boeing 737-297 serving the flight suffered extensive damage after an explosive decompression in flight, but was able to land safely at Kahului Airport on Maui. There was one fatality, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing, who was swept overboard from the airplane . Another 65 passengers and crew were injured." Jeff Wise Is Here to Talk About His MH370 Theory (New York Mag) Seems like a crackpot conspiracy theory to me (Erik). Lighting The Kruithof curve  "describes a region of illuminance levels and color temperatures that are often viewed as comfor...

IKEA product names How they are named Description of each name Third-party browsers on iOS In summary, you still can't make a 3rd party browser that uses its own rendering+JavaScript engine, but at least, since iOS 8, apps using the WKWebView have access to the JIT enabled JavaScript engine, and are thus at least not put at an additional disadvantage compared to Safari. Firefox gives up, and will make "Firefox" for iOS