Diana Gitig

1 month ago | lilith.org | Diana Gitig

“More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews,” turn-of-the-twentieth century cultural Zionist Ahad Ha’am famously maintained. Shabbat observance can be construed as transgressive in its circumscription of modern technology, whatever “modern technology” entailed in whatever century the Jews happened to find themselves. Keeping Shabbat can be onerous, yes; but perhaps therein lies its power, and its means of keeping us.

Oct 29, 2024 | arstechnica.com | Diana Gitig

A new method lets anyone with a kit write data to DNA with just one enzyme. Diana Gitig – Oct 29, 2024 10:32 am | Zettabytes—that’s 1021 bytes—of data are currently generated every year. All of those cat videos have to be stored somewhere, and DNA is a great storage medium; it has amazing data density and is stable over millennia.

Oct 29, 2024 | technewstube.com | Diana Gitig

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Sep 7, 2024 | technewstube.com | Diana Gitig

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Sep 6, 2024 | arstechnica.com | Diana Gitig

The three princes of Sarandib—an ancient Persian name for Sri Lanka—get exiled by their father the king. They are good boys, but he wants them to experience the wider world and its peoples and be tested by them before they take over the kingdom. They meet a cameleer who has lost his camel and tell him they’ve seen it—though they have not—and prove it by describing three noteworthy characteristics of the animal: it is blind in one eye, it has a tooth missing, and it has a lame leg.