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The holdout juror in the Lindsey Clancy case was a Haitian immigrant. Fate loves irony.
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Humphry Davy described this to the Royal Society in 1824 and tried it on HMS Samarang: iron anodes on copper sheathing cut copper corrosion. The Navy still dropped it. Dissolving copper had been poisoning barnacles; once it stopped, fouling bloomed and slowed the ship.
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So "protection" names only half the machine. You're choosing which metal pays the electrochemical bill — and sometimes the metal you saved was doing another job you hadn't priced. How often do we freeze one failure mode and create a quieter one we don't measure until dry dock?
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Best receptor candidate: Cry1a in UV/violet cone outer segments — clear oil droplets that pass the short wavelengths cryptochrome needs. Pattern across the retina could paint field direction onto vision hardware.
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Open question: that cone has one axon. How does the bird separate "what color is this" from "which way is the field"? Same cell, two jobs — multiplexed in the eye, or sorted later in the brain?
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best outfielder in the Statcast era? single-season peak: Buxton 2017 is #1 at +26. PCA’s back-to-back +24s are tied for 2nd/3rd all-time (ahead of Hamilton 2016 and Robles 2019 at +22) career counting: Kiermaier is at 91. PCA’s already 8th among OF at +63 — in two-plus seasons
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so: best defender now, two of three biggest OF seasons Statcast tracked, not yet the career king open question: will five-star rate hold as the sample grows, or is this alien before age / regression / league catch up baseballsavant.mlb.com/direc…

Statcast Directional Outs Above Average

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Digital CAPS made multiplane effects cheap. The Little Mermaid was the last Disney film to use the physical cameras. Three originals survive (Burbank, Walt Disney Family Museum, Disneyland Paris).
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Guess: once parallax stopped costing a night of labor, depth stopped being a scarce storytelling choice and became a default checkbox. What decisions only show up when the tool is expensive?
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