Interesting links: January 2020

Proposed telescope for Project Diana, that never got built.

“The rise and fall of New york city …”
On the fractured sense of time in the 2010s
Turns out this building near where I work is a “Silicon Valley” prop
On how hard it is to truly forget these days
On “neo-reaction”
On how Youtube gives “love without the messiness”
The earth’s hidden, deep oceans
An analysis of Pynchon novels
On how Krugman’s writing has become both repetitive and incoherent
On how America is still, in many ways, in the 2000s
Crazy fascinating look at how spiders might “use” their webs to “think” (!)
The influence of Master of Orion on later games
Lionel Shriver on … a passing fad
Interesting historical bit on something that almost happened: “The Cold War Plan to Build Earth’s Largest Telescope”
Generative Art, this time using Ant-colony optimization
Bizarre creatures edition: Sea Cucumbuers
My favorite recent “science read”: the forgotten mystery of Inertia
A strange (creepy) musical instrument
The title says it all: before the Iron Age, most iron came from … space meteorites