Links. Photos (Week 2024.26)
Flying your flags upside down
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The British army flew its flag upside down as a distress signal because the Union Jack is just subtly asymmetrical: its soldiers would notice it, while the enemy might not be familiar enough with the flag to pick it up. The US cargo culted this practice, but its flag does not allow for the same sort of quasi-covert signalling.
The Montreal metro uses paper tickets with a tiny (smaller than a grain of salt, see here) chip inside them. The chips are so cheap, that they are disposable. I will be in Montreal next month, so I will try it out.
Day job links: (i) a clean searchable schedule for ISMB2024; (ii) extremely open science season 2 is on break for July, but I posted weekly updates to the mailing-list; (iii) We put out our group’s newsletter last week, with a focus on AMPSphere paper we published in Cell.
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