Article about the hastily-arranged anti-Iran-sanctions conference, which was full of all kinds of contradictions since Trump and Pence are usually about caving to America's enemies.
https://www.vox.com/world/2019/2/15/18225218/warsaw-summit-2019-iran-meeting-conference
The tip of my research into Trump's national emergency, which revealed that strangely there have been more than 50 national emergencies declared in modern times, and about 33 are still in effect!
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2019/02/15/what-exactly-national-emergency-here-what-that-means-and-what-next/WvRZAgv1THUZLXTeAZQNUM/story.html
Work:
The article from Maxim for how the MAX1818 circuits in the load box are being configured as current regulators:
https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/app-notes/index.mvp/id/4404
Diversions:
Breathless review of The Lego Movie 2:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/02/lego-movie-2-isnt-just-amazing-its-also-the-solo-we-always-wanted/
A nice photo of models of Pathfinder, Opportunity, and Curiosity together showing differences in scale (this photo posted as a result of the news that Opportunity didn't reboot after the last dust storm):
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/PIA15279_3rovers-stand_D2011_1215_D521.jpg/1920px-PIA15279_3rovers-stand_D2011_1215_D521.jpg
Fyre Festival documentaries: https://newrepublic.com/article/153095/fyre-festival-huge-scam-netflixs-fyre-documentary-scam-too
Led Zepplin lawsuit: https://www.phillymag.com/news/2019/02/11/francis-malofiy-led-zeppelin/
Latest on the israeli moon lander, including some details on the star tracker problem:
https://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli-spacecraft-launches-Beresheet-heads-into-orbit-towards-the-moon-581575
Newest thinking about adult-developing food allergies:
https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/eved5w/why-do-some-people-suddenly-develop-food-allergies-later-in-life?utm_source=tonicfbus&fbclid=IwAR38mOLmGW6FgZEIMnfbQ4oRAgb07vLkZ_WbM3Tzd41pzmRHMJz8OJBNTRk
Crazy experiment which caused evolution of single cell bacteria into multicellular structures:
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-witnessed-in-real-time-a-single-celled-algae-evolve-into-a-multicellular-organism?fbclid=IwAR3C4HjTOz084z6EPFh1FyNkF7KPeCtitIyExS-V3a52G7uHBHlIGCWHxCc
A deep review of some theories on the topic (it sonehow took half a billion years):
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/how-did-multicellular-life-evolve/
Everyone around you is grieving:
https://johnpavlovitz.com/2019/02/21/everyone-around-you-is-grieving-go-easy/?utm_source=NationSwellfacebook&utm_medium=outreach&utm_campaign=NationSwellOutreach&fbclid=IwAR0-sdzmajBUHgCaE9wt6V2bewDG_oOnG4Csf_ULcOX_9WXPlGLd5twjyUA
Do viruses age:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1t5u7s/do_viruses_age/
Sanders private jet usage during Clinton campaign:
https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2019/02/25/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-private-jet-flights-1182793
First and only cat in space (suborbital):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Félicette
A fat rat stuck in a manhole cover. Amazingly, firefighters just released it back into the sewer:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna976626
The humpback whale in the jungle turns out to be in a mangrove swamp:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/02/26/world/dead-humpback-whale-brazil-trnd/index.html
Michael Cohen's incredibly ghost-written opening statement:
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/02/27/michael-cohen-read-the-statement-about-donald-trump-here.html
Republican lawmakers ask for Cohen to be investigated:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/02/28/politics/house-criminal-referral-michael-cohen/index.html
Disney princesses with modern careers:
https://amp.thisisinsider.com/disney-princess-jobs-2018-5?fbclid=IwAR0Ia-MlRmmyUQwUUW7WL4U7CAWPS3SRaglWwS2fYSq9chveCDBS2xOqMOM
