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by Dennis Crouch The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has disclosed a significant error in its patent term adjustment (PTA) calculations, potentially affecting patents issued between March 19, 2024, and July 30, 2024. The USPTO discovered a coding error introduced in a recent software update. This error specifically affected two aspects of the PTA calculation: 1. The "A" delay under 35 U.S.C. 154(b)(1)(A) 2. The amount of overlap …

I receive many (many) unsolicited emails about the possibility of working with me at grad school. Some are clearly bulk emails sent no doubt to a large number of professors. Some are customized to include phrases like “I was really … Continue reading →

Consumer culture, entertainment, marketing, and social media increasingly infiltrate the field of art: fashion brands drop artist collaborations, luxury products claim to have artwork status, and immersive lightshows blend classical art history with spectacular marketing. Influencers populate the social media feeds of established art institutions, while museum goers are on the hunt for an instagrammable experience. As a result, to remain connected via live streaming and viral trends, institutions are …

The Retroist Podcast is back with an episode I promised to release during my first year of the podcast, The Goonies. On this episode, my first of the new season, I am happy to finally have covered this classic and beloved film.I start the show off by talking about how the film was inspiring to me in unexpected ways that have had a positive long-term effect on me. Then I …

The annual meetings of the Robert Walser Society and the W.G. Sebald Society (Deutsche Sebald Gesellschaft) will be held jointly in Munich on October 11-13, 2024. The event will offer participants the opportunity to immerse themselves in the work of both authors and to explore points of contact and differences between the two. The conference will include discussions, readings, talks, lectures and a guided tour. Speakers include Thilo Krause, Esther …

Once again, friends, I. MUST. RANT. Why? I — just heard from a mom trying to get two other families to let their kids play with her kids in her yard for an hour a week, outside. Unsupervised. AN HOUR A WEEK. She lives on a quiet street in quiet suburb in a quiet state. Classic single family homes. Zero traffic. Other parent (who has stood and watched three previous …

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Last June, a striking image of a pride flag made up of NASA imagery became the most-liked post on the new social media network Bluesky, a post it held for 2 months. I spoke with its creator Rachel Lense about how it was made, and what it’s reception means for inclusion in science. This image ... Read More "The story of the pride flag made from NASA imagery: Bluesky’s most-liked …

Reading Time: 36 minutes It’s been astonishing this week to see exactly how badly a political party’s comms team can handle something – FOR FCUK’S SAKE, LABOUR PARTY COMMS PEOPLE, IT SHOULDN’T BE THIS DIFFICULT. Also, the past seven days’ succession of embarrassing revelations and gift-related gaffes have somehow managed to achieve the unthinkable and made me feel genuine pity for the PM’s kid (I’m not a monster, it’s just …

The Three Investigators #5 The Mystery of the Vanishing Treasure by Robert Arthur, 1966. The Three Investigators don’t have a case at the moment, so Jupiter entertains himself and his friends with an intellectual exercise – figuring out how someone could steal the Rainbow Jewels from an exhibit at the Petersen Museum, an exhibit that has been promoted in the local papers. Pete and Bob object that they solve thefts, …

Selection: Introduction https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/henry-lowther-band_introduction_child-song_deram-sml1070-1970-ljc.mp3 . . . “Hey Henry, what do you want to call the first track, you know, the introduction?Yeah, that’ll do.” The rest are apparently word-pictures that relate to the theme of children’s play. Track List A1 IntroductionA2 Trav’lling SongA3 Plaything (Child Song And Anima)B1 3/4 Skip (Trip Up)B2 BetweenB3 Puppet Song Artists: Henry Lowther Band Daryl Runswick, bass guitar, double bass, percussion; Mike Travis, drums, percussion; Mike …

Thoughtful and actionable paper from Johan Allspaw about engineering resilience—with principles and tactics applicable to other kinds of work, I think. Importantly, resilience as defined here depends on a number of different behaviors, including open and honest communication, reciprocity, and a lack of judgment. What I find notable about this framing is the sense that resilience is a collective, rather than individual, attribute. That is, it depends on sharing information, …

It’s a claim you will find repeated in dozens – possibly hundreds – of places: that the so-called “Hymn to Ninkasi”, a poem in the Sumerian language to the goddess of beer, at least 3,900 years old, known from three fragmentary clay tablets found in and around the ancient city of Nippur, which stood between the Euphrates and the Tigris, is “effectively a Sumerian recipe for brewing beer”, “the oldest …