Week 2357
Writing
5 Notes
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.
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/