Ruth Report — 2024-07-16

Sports News

  • 25 years ago, Ken Griffey Jr., Mariners gave Kingdome fitting farewell [Seattle Times]

Medical News

  • New Alzheimer’s Nasal Spray Clears Toxic Tangles in Human Neurons And Mice [Science Alert]
  • Scientists Discover Two New Species of Hallucinogenic Mushroom [Newsweek]
  • Study finds men and women process memory in different ways [MedicalXpress]
  • Night owls’ cognitive function ‘superior’ to early risers, study suggests [Guardian]

Engineering News

  • Researchers achieve mind-blowing breakthrough with new heat-to-energy converter — and it could change electricity [Yahoo Tech]
  • Experts discover game-changing benefit of installing solar panels at aquaculture farms: ‘A win-win solution’ [Yahoo News]

Science News

  • Time might be a mirage created by quantum physics, study suggests [Live Science]

Entertainment News

  • The Last of Us has three main characters: Ellie, Joel and Gustavo Santaolalla’s music [Guardian]

Perspectives

  • ‘It comes for your very soul’: how Alzheimer’s undid my dazzling, creative wife in her 40s [Guardian]
  • Amy Poehler: ‘If we want young people to fix everything, why do we make fun of them?’ [Guardian]
  • ‘When I became a meme it was humiliating and hurtful’: Dua Lipa on pop, psychedelics and proving her haters wrong [Guardian]
  • ‘She is my soulmate. I’d do anything for her’: readers on their best friends [Guardian]

In Memoriam

  • Legendary sex therapist Dr Ruth dead at age 96 [Guardian]
  • Richard Simmons, celebrated fitness instructor, dies aged 76 [Guardian]

What Ruth is Learning (Lately)

  • How Does a CPU Work Internally? From Transistors to Instruction Set Architecture [Free Code Camp]
  • Learn Vimscript the Hard Way [Learn Vimscript the Hard Way]
  • Bash/Shell [Code Academy]
  • A Sheaf-Theoretic Construction of Shape Space [Springer]
  • Testing mobile apps with Cucumber and Appium through TestNG on AWS Device Farm [AWS]
  • Working with Appium and AWS Device Farm [AWS]

Recommendations (People recommended for me to see)

Recipes (Recipes I’m Trying)