Sunday, December 20, 2020

Featured Links - December 20, 2020

Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about.



  • How NASA Scrambled to Save OSIRIS-REx From Leaky Disaster. "The $800 million craft successfully collected precious asteroid material from a near-Earth asteroid. Then it started spilling regolith into space."
  • We're Not Sure Which Of These Ancient Medical Procedures Is The Worst, But My God They're All Awful. Don't read this if you are squeamish. 
  • How to Inspect Suspicious Links Using Your Browser's Inbuilt Tools. "If you enounter a suspicious link, check it out using the tools available in your browser."
  • My job reporting on QAnon and coronavirus disinformation has led to daily death threats — but we can’t give up. "Investigating conspiracies and the people who spread them led the journalist Marianna Spring to become the target for an onslaught of abuse online."
  • Hubble Releases 30 New Celestial Images to Celebrate its 30th Anniversary. A beautiful collection of images from one of the most important scientific instruments of all time.
  • Why I Write by Samuel R. Delany. "A new edition of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘠𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 has appeared with an article of mine, "Why I Write," and a detail from an extraordinary portrait by Gregory Frux, the original of which hangs in the Fales Library at NYU." 
  • What makes The Expanse so great: Good science, balancing epic with personal. "Ars chatted with showrunner Naren Shankar and writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck." 
  • Sex in Our Strange World | Why Christmas has Always Been About Sex. "From Greenland to Poland, the whole world is at it at Christmas."
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