Interesting links: September 2019

Panoramic view from the Venera 13 lander, from Venus, in 1982

Growing cotton leaves on the moon
A reading list of “hard science-fiction” with a focus on computers
Locating our Sun within the Milky Way
Video tours of communal living in Russia (cramped!)
On documentaries in India
On the future of mathematics
On the consequences of blind disruption
On avoiding talking about economic news
Remembering color pictures from Venus
Using Notion for blogging (something I'm going to seriously consider soon)
From right before the WeWork implosion
On “cancel culture”
On the changing understanding of what democracy means (on that note, another one on Trump and Tocqueville)
On techno-optimism
On meritocracy