Your Revolution Was Dumb and it Filled Us With Refugees
An alternate view of the often white-washed American Revolution. www.bunkhistory.org/resources/642
Earthworms Move into Boreal Forests
Gone since the last ice age, earthworms are moving north. In the short term, they release carbon; longer term they create new soil. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/science/earthworms-soil-climate.html
History of the periodic table
www.economist.com/node/21760185
Womansplaining Equal Pay
Why big tech should fear Europe – The future of big tech
“THE BIRTHDAY of a new world is at hand.” Ever since Thomas Paine penned those words in 1776, America has seen itself as the land of the new—and Europe as Read More …
Fun trivia on Presidential Firsts
timeline.com/us-president-firsts-e90bbfc72743
The Second Little Pig was Right – Build more with wood
www.economist.com/leaders/2019/01/05/why-more-buildings-should-be-made-of-wood
Thoughtful commentary ( as usual) – Tim O’Reilly’s argument against Reid Hoffman’s “Blitzscaling” — Quartz
Blitzscaling promises to teach techniques that are “the lightning fast path to building massively valuable companies.” But it’s not a recipe for success—it’s survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy. — Read More …
Gene Drives – great potential but in need of some rules
www.economist.com/node/21753592
Why is Congress so dumb? – The Washington Post
I always wondered why so much interesting legislation was passed during Nixon’s era. Turns out that “Congress remade its committees in the 1970s to challenge Richard Nixon’s presidency and move Read More …