Week 2357

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Have I become too paranoid, that I worry this could be politically motivated? https://apnews.com/86e17a4f133046d9a054b68e7cd675cf

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

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.

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.

https://twitter.com/bicycledutch/status/1126838876339830784

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/