After reading a blog post about e-mail, Chris Siebenmann realised why e-mail was so important to the Internet: it’s the only reliable means of inter-organizational communication. He notes that while Microsoft Teams, Skype, Discord, and the like are great for communicating within an organization, it’s difficult to reach out to those from other organizations using these. Different organizations use different central communication systems, so it’s much easier to stick to e-mail, which is universal. Read full article here
Science
An Eerie Poisonous Fog
If you’re visiting a farm, keep an eye out for an ominous-looking bronze fog. Nitrogen tetroxide, a red-orange gas, is made by certain bacteria during fermentation when oxygen is lacking in the crop. The lack of oxygen causes the bacteria to use the nitrate within the crops, which then produces nitrogen tetroxide. Inhalation of the gas is known to cause permanent lung damage or kill people and livestock. To prevent this, farmers have started performing nitrate tests after four weeks of fermentation. Read full article here
Merv
November 30, 2022
