Notes
At least one of the new US immigration detention camps should be named Kamp Westerbork.
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.