Quote

"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss." - Noam Chomksy

RIP and Infected

Failed States 288,906 (was 273,077)

World 1,541,752 (was 1,466,049)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidia_Menapace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JuneRoseBellamy

Ben Bova https://www.naplesnews.com/story/news/2020/12/01/coronavirus-florida-writer-ben-bova-dies-naples-covid-19-complications/3784895001/

Peter Alliss https://www.bbc.com/sport/golf/55204070

Arecibo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Spherical_Telescope

Follow-Up

F-117 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LockheedF-117Nighthawk

nVidia https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-to-acquire-arm-for-40-billion-creating-worlds-premier-computing-company-for-the-age-of-ai

Things

Maduro wins an election https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/7/venezuelan-president-maduro-claims-sweep-of-boycotted-election

(related https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/12/6/biggest-iranian-flotilla-yet-en-route-to-venezuela-with-fuel)

Somalia https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/04/us-troops-somalia-withdrawal-donald-trump

Kurds https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/2/kurd-vs-kurd-fears-of-full-scale-war-rise-in-northern-iraq

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9wb3B1bGFyZnJvbnQubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M/episode/NjRlNDRiYTEtYmQzMC00M2U0LThkOGYtNjhlNmNlYjY2ZmFk?hl=en-AU&ved=2ahUKEwistZ337bvtAhWJxDgGHeuoCrcQjrkEegQIBhAI&ep=6

Hayabusa 2 http://www.hayabusa2.jaxa.jp/en/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/05/japans-hayabusa2-sends-capsule-carrying-asteroid-samples-towards-earth https://www.universetoday.com/147977/hayabusa2s-mission-isnt-over-it-has-a-new-asteroid-target-to-visit-1998-ky26/

Chang'e 5 https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/topstories/chang-e-e2-80-995-set-to-return-with-2-kg-samples-from-moon-after-completing-docking-mission/ar-BB1bG8bX

Moon (and Mars) oxygen extraction tech https://www.aninews.in/news/science/british-engineers-develop-process-to-turn-moon-dust-into-oxygen20201127203943/ http://www.esa.int/ESAMultimedia/Images/2019/10/Oxygenandmetalfromlunarregolith https://phys.org/news/2020-11-tech-oxygen-fuel-mars-salty.html

Protein Folding https://foldingathome.org https://fold.it https://predictioncenter.org/casp14/

Stacks

F'ing Google https://newsvoice.com/i/9767567

Apple pays some speeding tickets

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/dec/06/kibiwott-kandie-breaks-58-minutes-for-half-marathon-wearing-new-shoe-technology

Hamilton/Russel https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-12/coronavirus-lewis-hamilton-surprised-australian-gp-is-being-held/12051052

https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/55210939

Williams 6-wheeler https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/six-wheeled-formula-one-williams/3196737/

Tyrell 6-wheeler https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a27528333/six-wheeled-f1-tyrell-p34-sound/

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