Interesting links: October 2019
(I feel I’m making up for the lack of links for the last three months ...) * Running a blog for 25 years! * The active core of our galaxy * Craziness of San Francisco policy * The effects of ligh…
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Dark Crystal
I kept watching past the last episode, and “the making of …” was just as thrilling as the episodes themselves! Puppets? Puppets! Glorious, CGI-enhanced puppets in so many shapes and sizes, requiring…
Interesting links: September 2019
* 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 Rus…
Dark Crystal
Here’s how it happened: I was browsing Netflix, got the usual nothing to see here. Oh well, what’s this Dark Crystal thing? Two minutes in, I get the feeling, “meh, this is too childish, did I accide…
Interesting links: August 2019
* Observing the Milky Way’s black hole * Wordpress and Tumblr * Maybe I’ve shared this before, but I like William Blake quotes * Someone interesting I came across: Elihu Vedder * Some book review…
Interesting links: July 2019
(a very short list, not a lot this month, I was too busy !) * Revisiting Inside Llewyn Davis (yep, still good!) * 3-D printing human tissues * On Vitamin D, Deep sleep & Gut Bacteria * Using…
Interesting links: June 2019
* Absolutely fascinating coverage of key (and forgotten) developments in the history of electrical technology * A lot of original music records are susceptible to getting lost * Inspiring: learning…
Interesting links: May 2019
* The big one for me: Fungi are older, possibly much older, than you thought * As the headline says: “Britain passes one week without coal power for first time since 1882” * Discovering a millenium…
Interesting links: April 2019
* SpaceX managed a triple booster landing (!) * In the “somewhat ancient history” category, a look back at Ashurbanipal of Assyria * In the “check out this new animal” category: a giant ancient her…
Interesting links: March 2019
* Headline from the Register: “Hipster whines at tech mag for using his pic to imply hipsters look the same, discovers pic was of an entirely different hipster” * Random weirdness: liquid mercury fo…
Interesting links: February 2019
* Stumbled across Notion (seems incredibly useful, and clearly one of the apps that seem to herald our post-file future, but for me, still in a trial mode) * Learnt of the story of Anna Akhmatova *…
Interesting links: January 2019
* Getting a spacecraft to travel several dozen million miles, and start orbiting a small space rock in a one-mile radius is no mean feat * This one house in LA connects movies as far apart as House…