Fri. 07/23 - Time Keeps on Slipping, Slipping, Slipping

<p>Rounding errors may cause winners to become losers and losers winners, Bezos and James Webb both fall to Earth, and beyond lobster shortages, now crabs.</p> <p>Links:</p> The floating point: Rounding error in timing devices (American Journal of Physics) Apple’s weather app won’t say it’s 69 degrees (The Verge) Progressives call out Jeff Bezos’s space flight as “self-indulgent” and renew calls for wealth tax (CNN) NASA investigates renaming James Webb telescope after anti-LGBT+ claims (Nature) Consider the $34 Lobster Roll (New York Times) Record lobster prices sign of sky-high demand (SeafoodSource) Mysterious blue crab shortage spawns big-time st...