Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about.
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| Ice on Frenchman's Bay, taken with my Pixel 4a |
- Self-Spreading Vaccine Research Could Spin Out of Control, Experts Warn. "Vaccines that spread like a disease could prevent the next pandemic, but the associated challenges and risks are enormous, according to scientists."
- Trinity College Dublin begins €90m project to relocate vulnerable books. "Restoring and moving 750,000 volumes and ancient manuscripts expected to take five years."
- Hospitals Are in Serious Trouble. "Omicron is inundating a health-care system that was already buckling under the cumulative toll of every previous surge." Another great article by Ed Yong in The Atlantic.
- The Ticking Bomb of Crypto Fascism. "The crypto market’s inevitable crash will pull America’s politics in an even scarier direction."
- America gave up on truly educating all its kids. Then Jan. 6 happened. Coincidence? "A viral moment from Pennsylvania's court battle over school funding about kids on ‘the McDonald’s track’ holds a buried truth on the anniversary of Jan. 6."
- A month of unprecedented U.S. weather disasters ends with Colorado fire catastrophe. "December 2021 put an exclamation point on a migration of warm-season threats toward winter."
- Cory Doctorow: Science Fiction is a Luddite Literature. "From 1811-1816, a secret society styling themselves “the Luddites” smashed textile machinery in the mills of England. Today, we use “Luddite” as a pejorative referring to backwards, anti-technology reactionaries. This proves that history really is written by the winners."
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