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[Christopher Nolan Archives @NolanAnalyst]

Tom Holland tells Christopher Nolan how the water sequences in The Impossible were shot.

[Numerama @Numerama]

Tout le monde se trompe sur la climatisation, voici pourquoi ! ❄️

Suivez 👉 @numerama pour anticiper l'avenir !

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#numerama #canicule #clim #france #ecologie #climat

[Christopher Nolan Archives @NolanAnalyst]

Far-right losers are review bombing THE ODYSSEY with the lowest possible ratings, and it’s still holding an incredible score because the film is incredible 😭

[Christopher Nolan Archives @NolanAnalyst]

IMAX CEO Richard Gelfond says demand for IMAX 70mm is growing, but the biggest obstacle is simple: no new IMAX film projectors have been built in about 50 years. The Odyssey could help change that.

[Variety @Variety]

Seth Rogen says there’s an “optimism” at Hollywood movie studios that he hasn’t seen in years amid this year's box office resurgence:

“I am constantly having conversations with studio heads, and you can sense an optimism that they haven’t felt in a long time. It reminds me a little bit more of how it felt 15 years ago, in that there’s a belief that they can win again.”

Read the full cover story: https://t.co/NYmIGLuRY8

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Openness to immigration has on balance been a huge source of strength to the United States but it can be a problem when you get immigrants like Elon Musk who fundamentally reject American values and ideals.

[Tomas Salvo @tomas_salvo22]

Since February, I've designed and built the world's fastest RC airplane in my college dorm, and that’s not clickbait. Reaper has a 5kg carbon-fiber frame, 250N turbojet, and flies at 500mph. New to X and will be going through the whole build here in the coming days.

#aerospace

[Ankit Gupta @agupta]

Reminder that programs like usaid were strikingly cheap and made us a superpower. The entire annual budget spanning the globe was about the cost of a few weeks of getting our asses handed to us in Iran.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Elon challenged everyone to name someone who was killed by his DOGE cuts to USAID. Nicholas Kristof, who did the study, accepted the challenge.

Instead of explaining why Kristof was incorrect, he responded with personal abuse.

He is clearly rattled.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

Step 1: don’t be racist
Step 2: love France

Done

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

Out today: Researchers have made the first cell capable of “feeding, growth, replication, division and selection...entirely using components scientists put there.”

In other words, a cell that self-replicates and was made entirely from the ground-up, molecule by molecule.

The cell is called SpudCell. And although it is definitely a cell (in that it has a membrane with molecules inside) it is definitely not alive, because it cannot grow indefinitely, survive without human help, make its own ribosomes, or recycle waste. It "dies" after a few divisions.

But it's a starting point! And these same researchers have raised $6-8M+ in philanthropic funding to scale their efforts with a new nonprofit for synthetic cell research, called Biotic.

[horse dentist @equine__dentist]

The ocean floor is a deeply unserious place

[Debunker des Etoiles @DeBunKerEtoiles]

@ALeaument La sortie du communisme en URSS a permis à la fois de vivre mieux et d’émettre moins de CO2.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Affordability and abundance are the exact same thing

[chris @cwamidon]

Nice spin but:

1. LMC started work two years after Boom was founded, and the primary X-59 contract was only awarded AFTER your Series A.

2. LMC was only ever awarded roughly $300m total for X-59 work. Boom has now raised roughly $600m. This would be irrelevant if X-59 and XB-1 were comparable aircraft ($200m as you say); unfortunately they’re not:

3. “Breaking the sound barrier” is an equally funny marketing grift to “splitting the atom.” It’s necessary but not sufficient. Your chase plane built 60 years ago can also break the sound barrier. What matters is the sonic boom, we all know this.

4. But XB-1’s “boomless” claim was largely Mach cutoff physics and flight profile selection rather than fundamentally new low-boom aeronautics. Any supersonic aircraft can benefit from favorable atmospheric conditions. That is very different from solving the geometry problem itself. It allows you to claim noise reduction in a way that SOUNDS ground breaking but is nothing novel or unknown. It’s a weather modeling challenge more than anything.

5. X-59 is actually attempting the much harder geometry problem by reshaping and weakening the shock structure through aircraft geometry itself, which is what actually matters for scalable commercial overland supersonic flight. They are nearly the way to proving this out, you pivoted into datacenters and as far as I can tell have made no progress on the core engineering challenge.

6. So yes: if Boom ever actually reaches parity with X-59 on the low boom problem, it will already have spent materially more capital and time than LMC did.

[DHH @dhh]

This is how we turn public opinion around on data centers. Make them as beautiful as temples of the past. Give them aesthetic appeal worthy of the silicon miracles performed inside.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

BACK TO THE FUTURE stunning artwork by Julien Verge.

[Le Gorafi @le_gorafi]

L’Italie qualifiée pour les éliminatoires de l’Euro 2028 https://t.co/RjELFlmwc4

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

Ambitious French people really are special