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There is an informative interview with Linus Pauling on youtube from 1990 in which he discusses his life and scientific work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8maetlPd8Q

Anyone with a passing interest in this or adjacent fields should check out the Deep Carbon Observatory website. https://deepcarbon.net/worlds-oldest-groundwater-supports-li... http…

Demography of England: 1348 4,810,000 +16.7% 1351 2,600,000 −45.9% 1650 5,310,000 +29.2% 300 years to recover

very little of a writer survives with time; asimov had interesting world building but his characters are a little flat. the surviving great works of literature deal with human bein…

in a multipolar world you might see precise attacks during periods of tension targeting military facilities - base trade conflict. this minimizes loss of life and it creates a real…

Lockheed makes a mobile system called THAAD. I doubt there were any deployed in Iraq, and the effectiveness of these are dubious. The Russians put the S400 in Syria and it has perf…

radiation spreads and matter clumps. in this universe matter was allowed to form but radiation dominates. island chains swallowed up by a rising ocean.

Management bloating faster than the codebase.

The meta-position that you can absorb multiple world views and hold them temporarily to assess their ontological narrative is ridiculous. It bleeds from the stone of Christian refo…

regional hegemons enforce embargoes on nations which refuse to behave according to new standards. a carbon non-proliferation treaty backed with coordinated blockades and cyber-atta…

specific languages are the result of history and territory. Language is an innate human capacity. the speed, breadth and depth of acquisition is measured relative to other humans. …

human biology adapts to the environment and forms the basic primitive culture. technology for over 10,000 years rapidly mixed cultures and to a lesser extent biologies forming: lan…

Allegedly Rent seeking billionaires are hypothetically positioning themselves in the supposed space race because the theoretical American -Chinese cold war will be potentially foug…

people are self-interested not truth interested. most scientific fields are initiated by a small handful of geniuses, but over time become a type of cloistered bureaucracy. your st…

It's a continuation of the pivot to Asia strategy dating back to Clinton. The Middle East was a sandbox for testing new weapons for the next cold war century. Remember in American …

there's content creation - which seems to be reducing in length of time. (tiktok is just a vine reboot). and content curation - which is about maximizing viewer-curator interaction…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S051A8doXP0 (mind control) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m6dldvNECI (heart attack gun) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVF8YGFcJWU (electronic we…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY6fb59XFbQ (The Net 2003)

Mirage Men.

Interest rate cuts by the BoE, the pound weakens, Asian foreign investment - Japan and China would love to build high speed rail for an international market. Companies like Huawei …

That's a new way to spell oligarchy, or do ladders on mountains roll from the bottom up? Articles like this spell out a painful economic correction of overheated speculation, add t…

a lot of people would lose income if the climate stopped changing.

america needs to elect another straight shooter so people don't get confused about foreign policy issues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qdvm6h8WKg

i did mean the ocean originally, you have heat sponges which sit near the surface and use the gradient between air flowing above the surface, the hotter temperature above, and the …

the mechanism that generates heat is reversible, that's how we got fossil fuels to begin with (hydrocarbon storage). if you think converting heat flux into electrical or mechanical…