- A Chilling Paragraph from 1960 (Ted Gioia) He is quoting the Paul Goodman book, Growing up Absurd, and the paragraph is a chillingly accurate description of today.
- Leonardo noted link between gravity and acceleration centuries before Einstein (Ars Technica) It's similar but not the same. Da Vinci, and Galileo, and Newton, all observed that gravity created acceleration. Einstein concluded that gravity was acceleration.
- Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable? (MIT News) Short version, its chemistry made it self-healing.
- Mapped out. (Conquest of the Useless) There has been a lot of talk of nepo-babies in the media, but when it's documented IN the media, the whining is intense.
- Obama’s turncoat antitrust enforcer is angry about the Google breakup (Pluralistic) Hypocrisy much?
- Inside the amazingly mechanical Bendix Central Air Data Computer (Ken Shirriff) A look at the Byzantine collection of analogue electromagnetic components, "46 synchros, 511 gears, 820 ball bearings, and a total of 2,781 major parts," that allowed an aircraft to determine its speed, altitude, etc. even when moving from subsonic to supersonic flight.
- Call the police by their real name: occupying armies (The Editorial Board) "Very little will change as long as policing is determined by state laws and local authorities exquisitely attuned to the needs and desires of the white-power status quo."
Understand our feline overlords: (#10 bringing you something dead)
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