Notes
City rankings always deserve some skepticism, but this one confirms my biases since I’ve moved from the 70th to the 46th to the 11th… http://www.mercer.com/qualityofliving
I’m hoping to vote for Kamala Harris next November. 🇺🇸
Yet to drive the right conversation today I’ve donated to Jay Inslee. 🌎
This story about Ice XVIII is delightful. Simulations of “too computationally difficult to solve” physics make predictions, real experiments test, now we can trust the simulations.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-bizarre-form-of-water-may-exist-all-over-the-universe/
This thread is full of reactions to a video of an intersection I ride through every day. I should revisit this periodically as a reminder that our normal is actually special.
This musing on Rotterdam offers no simple answers to our current culture wars, but brings valuable perspective. https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/04/29/the-city-of-europes-future/
America needs to build an inclusive economy, but there is other work to be done as well.
I love this idea about the origin of apocolypse stories as a response to Systemsized time: We invented eternity, but the infinite is overwhelming, so we then invented end times. https://aeon.co/essays/when-time-became-regular-and-universal-it-changed-history