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

<p><strong><em>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.</em></strong></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a href="https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/10.0003919" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The floating point: Rounding error in timing devices</a>&nbsp;(American Journal of Physics)</li><li><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2021/7/13/22575368/apple-ios-14-weather-app-69-rounding-error-15" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Apple’s weather app won’t say it’s 69 degrees</a>&nbsp;(The Verge)</li><li><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/business/live-news/jeff-bezos-space-flight-07-20-21/h_6879ddd1602655c86e48b2449ed2c42e" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Progressives call out Jeff Bezos’s space flight as “self-indulgent” and renew calls for wealth tax</a>&nbsp;(CNN)</li><li><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02010-x" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NASA investigates renaming James Webb telescope after anti-LGBT+ claims</a>&nbsp;(Nature)</li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/style/lobster-roll-spike.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Consider the $34 Lobster Roll</a>&nbsp;(New York Times)</li><li><a href="https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/supply-trade/record-high-lobster-boat-prices-sign-of-sky-high-demand" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Record lobster prices sign of sky-high demand</a>&nbsp;(SeafoodSource)</li><li><a href="https://www.eenews.net/articles/mysterious-blue-crab-shortage-spawns-big-time-sticker-shock/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mysterious blue crab shortage spawns big-time sticker shock</a>&nbsp;(E&amp;E News)</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/glennf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Glenn on Twitter</a>&nbsp;(Twitter)</li></ul><p><br></p><p>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> an