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• RTS :: U narednih 100 godina proleće počinje 20. marta — „Oprostili smo se sa 21. martom 2011. godine, pre toga je bio duži period u kome su se 20. i 21. mart smenjivali, od 2011. pa u narednih bezmalo 100 godina 20. mart će biti za nas ovde dan kada počinje proleće“, rekao je Simonović. 
• Аmbasada Republike Srbije u SAD — Adresa
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• William Wallace Lincoln – Wikipedia — William Wallace Lincoln (December 21, 1850 – February 20, 1862) was the third son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln. He was named after Mary’s brother-in-law Dr. William Wallace.
• Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.) – Wikipedia — Oak Hill Cemetery is a historic 22-acre (8.9 ha) cemetery located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. It was founded in 1848 and completed in 1853, and is a prime example of a rural cemetery. Many famous politicians, business people, military people, diplomats, and philanthropists are buried at Oak Hill, and the cemetery has a number of Victorian-style memorials and monuments.
• Dumbarton Oaks – Wikipedia — Dumbarton Oaks is a historic estate in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was the residence and garden of Robert Woods Bliss (1875–1962) and his wife Mildred Barnes Bliss (1879–1969).
• The Asphalt Jungle (1950) – IMDb — A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel.
• U.S. Route 29 in the District of Columbia – Wikipedia — The elevated section of U.S. Route 29 in D.C. is better known as the Whitehurst Freeway. Called the city’s most ridiculed bridge in 1989, there have been several attempts to have the Whitehurst Freeway torn down but cost and other considerations have stopped these proposals from being acted on.
• The Power Broker – Wikipedia — The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a 1974 biography of Robert Moses by Robert Caro. The book focuses on the creation and use of power in local and state politics, as witnessed through Moses’ use of unelected positions to design and implement dozens of highways and bridges, sometimes at great cost to the communities he nominally served. It has been repeatedly named one of the best biographies of the 20th century, and has been highly influential on city planners and politicians throughout the United States. The book won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974.
• Jones Beach State Park — World famous Jones Beach State Park, home of 6.5 miles of beautiful white-sand beach on the Atlantic Ocean, is made up of more than 2,400-acres of maritime environment on the south shore of Long Island.
• Robert Moses and His Racist Parkway, Explained. – Bloomberg — The story: Robert Moses ordered engineers to build the Southern State Parkway’s bridges extra-low, to prevent poor people in buses from using the highway. The truth? It’s a little more complex.
• Tammany Hall – Wikipedia — Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was a New York City political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789, as the Tammany Society. It became the main local political machine of the Democratic Party, and played a major role in controlling New York City and New York State politics and helping immigrants, most notably the Irish, rise in American politics from the 1790s to the 1960s.
• Intelsat headquarters – Wikipedia — 3400 International Drive (also known as Intelsat Headquarters) is an office complex in the North Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C. by the Van Ness metro station designed by the Australian architect John Andrews[5] and built by Gilbane Building Company. Formerly used as the U.S. headquarters of the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (Intelsat), it is known for its futuristic, high-tech architecture.
• Yugoslavia’s “Space Age” Monuments Revisited – Balkanist — Photos of “Yugoslav space age monuments” have been all over the internet in recent years, entirely decontextualized from both their original and evolving meanings. Susanna Bitters takes a closer look.

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• Priključenija 1: Vanredno stanje — Nismo epidemiolozi, a ni virolozi, ali umemo da pričamo. Šta dva onkologa misle da znaju o koronavirusu?
• Bug-out bag – Wikipedia — A bug-out bag or BOB is a portable kit that normally contains the items one would require to survive for 72 hours when evacuating from a disaster, although some kits are designed to last longer periods.
• Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile: Taleb, Nassim Nicholas: 9780399590450: Amazon.com: Books — Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand, in nonoverlapping and standalone books. All four volumes—Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and the expanded edition of The Bed of Procrustes, updated with more than 50 percent new material—are now together in one boxed set.
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Wikipedia — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960) is a Lebanese-American (of Antiochian Greek descent) essayist, scholar, mathematical statistician, and former option trader and risk analyst, whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.
• Priključenija 28: Tviter
• Senior WHO official dodges questions about Taiwan’s WHO membership; praises China – YouTube
• Priključenija 4: Vuhanski virus — Koje je poreklo virusa SARS-CoV-2? Od 5G mreža preko bega iz laboratorije do najverovatnijeg odgovora: slepih miševa, pangolina, i nesposobnosti svetskih vlada da preduprede najočigledniju moguću katastrofu.
• Some Scientists Question W.H.O. Inquiry Into the Coronavirus Pandemic’s Origins – The New York Times
• WHO Investigators to Scrap Plans for Interim Report on Probe of Covid-19 Origins – WSJ
• Welcome — RECOVERY Trial — This national clinical trial aims to identify treatments that may be beneficial for people hospitalised with suspected or confirmed COVID-19
• Coronavirus: Operation Warp Speed — Using the resources of the federal government and the U.S. private sector, Operation Warp Speed (OWS) will accelerate the testing, supply, development, and distribution of safe and effective vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics to counter COVID-19 by January 2021.
• Swine Enteric Coronavirus Disease (PDF) — Vaccines against PEDV, one of the two disease agents, are available that can be used in sows prior to farrowing
• Milošev blog – Kako je kovid pojeo Srbiju
• Grifter
• Priključenija 27: Vakcine
• Milošev blog – Nekoliko reči o vakcinama za Covid-19 od laika za vakcine ali ne i za nauku — Koja, onda, vakcina? Koja god je prva dostupna.

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• Opinion | A Better Way to Think About Conspiracies – The New York Times — People will always be interested in conspiracy theories. They need a tool kit for discriminating among different fringe ideas.
• How Masks Went From Don’t-Wear to Must-Have During the Coronavirus Pandemic | WIRED — Public health messaging and science have to work hard to stay in sync during a crisis. During the Covid-19 pandemic, they haven’t always succeeded.
• ʻOumuamua – Wikipedia — Oumuamua is the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.
• Harvard Astrophysicist Avi Loeb on ‘Oumuamua and Aliens — In November 2017, an object passed by our planet that was unlike anything astronomers had ever seen. Spotted by a telescope in Hawaii, this strange thing was dubbed ‘Oumuamua. It moved too fast for it to have come from our solar system, its orbit was unusual, and it didn’t have any of the traditional markings of an asteroid or comet. All this led Dr. Avi Loeb to hypothesize that ‘Oumuamua was artificially made, perhaps a piece of technology or some debris from a faraway alien civilization.
• UFO videos have been officially released by Pentagon – CNNPolitics — The Pentagon has officially released three short videos showing „unidentified aerial phenomena“ that had previously been released by a private company. The videos show what appear to be unidentified flying objects rapidly moving while recorded by infrared cameras. Two of the videos contain service members reacting in awe at how quickly the objects are moving. One voice speculates that it could be a drone.
• Ministries of Nineteen Eighty-Four – Wikipedia — The Ministry of Truth (Newspeak: Minitrue) is the ministry of propaganda. As with the other ministries in the novel, the name Ministry of Truth is a misnomer because in reality it serves the opposite: it is responsible for any necessary falsification of historical events. However, like the other ministries, the name is also apt because it decides what „truth“ is in Oceania.
• WeChat – Wikipedia — WeChat (Chinese: 微信; pinyin: Wēixìn (About this soundlisten); lit. ‘micro-message’) is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent.
• WHO inspectors ‘to scrap interim report’ on probe of COVID origin | Coronavirus pandemic News | Al Jazeera — In an open letter (PDF), a group of 26 scientists called on Thursday for a new international inquiry. They claim that “structural limitations” made it “all but impossible” for the WHO mission to adequately pursue its investigation. Among other issues, the scientists questioned the scientific independence of the “Chinese citizens” composing half of the team.
• The Americans – Wikipedia — The Americans is an American period spy thriller television series created by Joe Weisberg for the FX television network. Set during the Cold War, it follows the story of Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys), two Soviet KGB intelligence officers posing as an American married couple living in Falls Church, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., with their children, Paige (Holly Taylor) and Henry (Keidrich Sellati).

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• Pinboard (@Pinboard) / Twitter — The light inside is broken, but I still work. The Cadillac of online bookmarking sites. https://pinboard.in maciej@ceglowski.com +1 415 610 0231
• Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People — This scenario is a caricature of Bostrom’s argument, because I am not trying to convince you of it, but vaccinate you against it.
• Andrew Huberman: Neuroscience of Optimal Performance | Lex Fridman Podcast #139 – YouTube — Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist at Stanford.
• Thread Helper — A serendipity engine on the Twitter sidebar.
• MyHeritage on Twitter — “It makes me so happy to see him smile again!“ Try our new #DeepNostalgia #PhotoAnimation feature for yourself and prepare to be AMAZED!!!
• Flint Dibble on Twitter — Alright, I’m joining the game and animating some ancient stuff. This is from the Acropolis Museum in Athens
• Shockingly Real Tom Cruise Deepfakes Are Invading TikTok — Three days ago, a TikTok account going by @deeptomcruise began posting video clips of the Hollywood actor Tom Cruise doing everything from golfing, to tripping and telling a joke in what appears to be a men’s clothing store in Italy, to performing a magic trick with a coin. In each of the three videos, Cruise delivers his signature maniacal laugh—you know, the one he repeatedly unleashed in that batty Scientology recruitment video years back—before launching into some sort of bit, and in all of them, it looks just like Cruise. Only it’s not Cruise.
• GPT-3 – Wikipedia — Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. It is the third-generation language prediction model in the GPT-n series (and the successor to GPT-2) created by OpenAI, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research laboratory.
• Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor English Subtitle – YouTube — “A Country Doctor” (German: “Ein Landarzt”) is a short story written in 1917 by Franz Kafka. It was first published in the collection of short stories of the same title. In the story, a country doctor makes an emergency visit to a sick patient on a winter night. The doctor faces absurd, surreal predicaments that pull him along and finally doom him.
• The EMBO Journal on Twitter: „See what’s really going on inside your nerves’ ends – real-time analysis of protein mobility at the #synapse courtesy of Rizzoli lab https://t.co/lIUP0yrsnS https://t.co/l15MXR5j9k“ / Twitter
• Priključenija 15: Simulacija — Nebojša misli da živimo u simulaciji. Miloš je skeptičan. Obojici se sviđa serija koja nema veze sa simulacijom, osim što možda ima.
• Priključenija 23: Računari — Miloš je pod utiskom nakon čitanja knjige, Nebojša nakon gledanja filma. Nepoznavanje inženjerstva i ekonomije neće ih sprečiti da podele svoja mišljenja o oba.