A search engine would be tougher. There's nothing terribly special about Google's algorithm, but there's a lot of capital invested in the crawling. What's App ($20 billion) was written by a guy from RentACoder.com though.

I think you underestimate the "people in power" i.e. institutional investors. The fact is, despite lots of tries, Windows, Google, Facebook, etc. don't get bumped off regularly. The app is not where their value is.

Ah, the Dunning-Kruger is strong.

Um... random review paper:

Photochemistry in Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Yeah, I don't think not understanding maps is an African thing.

Clearly Cosmo did their background research. The Tea app was created by a guy named Sean.

I don't think it would take a half decent programmer more than a week to rewrite Duolingo's app. The content would be a little more work, but not that much. Tell the VCs a million dollars and we can rent a yacht, get some hookers and blow, and spend the leftovers on actually making the app.

Duolingo's market cap is 15 billion dollars. Whatever it's valued for, it ain't the app.

Why look it up? Pay someone else to do it for you.

Why? We've translated lots of technology into making drugs. You used to make insulin by grinding up cow and pig pancreases. Now we mostly have big vats of e. coli that we've engineered to pump it out.

Drugs are a great application for new chemistry techniques because they tend to be complicated, hard to synthesize, but valuable enough that any improvement can be a big deal.

The frequency of Mercator map stories on the Internet, and the comments on them, do suggest that geography curricula in lots of places are seriously failing their pupils. Nobody should be able to get through the first week of geography without knowing the Earth is round and there are various map projections with different compromises necessary to make a flat map.

You can do that with a computer because it doesn't mind the constant heading changes. A pilot flying by hand, or using an autopilot with only heading hold will also fly rhumb lines. The "great circle" route the autopilot flies might also be a series of rhumb lines, just small ones. It may hold heading to the nearest degree, for example.

Mercator charts also make intermediate length trips easier. If you're heading across a decent sized bay or flying cross country VFR you might want to just sail/fly a compass heading.

The US's moral high ground has always been mostly fictional. It's been a fiction that convinced a lot of people though, both American and not.

This has been popping up around the Internet again:

https://politics.stackexchange...

Sure. If China were actually concerned about making real points about the US as a surveillance state they'd just post this:

https://www.scituation.net/wp-...

It's been well known for quite a while that some fluoroalkanes cause disease. Not in the "oh, you might get cancer in forty years" way but in the "lots of cows are dying mysteriously" way. Studying the effects of those chemicals on biological systems, including genetic expression, can tell us a lot about what they're doing and potentially ways to treat those diseases.

News agencies love these stories. Some random people with a questionable understanding of the subject say some stuff, somebody who also doesn't understand much about it writes an article, and the rage clicks just flow in.

Well, I think I'm going to give Curtis Lemay's position (also shared by Eisenhower and the US Joint Chiefs) that the bombing was probably unnecessary the benefit of the doubt, despite your argument that the Japanese absolutely were not going to surrender, supported by the very convincing evidence that some guys threw a failed coup to... prevent the Japanese from surrendering.