Interesting Links: April 2020

Heh, BioShock: the collection (!)
A 210,000-year old human skull
On the economic impact of the coronavirus
On how Leo Tolstoy’s children’s stories aren’t considered “safe for kids” these days
A NYTimes article from 2006, on … an interesting geological artifact
> At the southern end of Madagascar lie four enormous wedge-shaped sediment deposits, called chevrons, that are composed of material from the ocean floor. Each covers twice the area of Manhattan with sediment as deep as the Chrysler Building is high.
> On close inspection, the chevron deposits contain deep ocean microfossils that are fused with a medley of metals typically formed by cosmic impacts. And all of them point in the same direction – toward the middle of the Indian Ocean where a newly discovered crater, 18 miles in diameter, lies 12,500 feet below the surface.
Once upon a time, there was planned an animated film, by Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney’s set to the Music of Pink Floyd
On higher education as a Ponzi scheme
On the design of escape pods from space
Wolfram continues trying (image above) to reconcile fundamental physics (and a couple of papers)
On Bernie Sanders dropping out (and … yet)
”The normal economy is never coming back”
Rethinking the human migration story
On how deep sea squid communicate using skin color
On building. Building things.
Remembering Mark Fisher
On how a fan persuaded Ian Fleming on a tiny detail about James Bond
John Denver and Placido Domingo, recording Perhaps Love (eh, before I was born!)