Featured Links - February 28, 2022

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

We Canadians Are Hardy Sorts

• ADL Finds 1,100 People Donated to Both Canada Freedom Convoy and Jan. 6 Demonstration. I am not surprised. Canada is in the sights of the US right wing.
• A supernova could light up the Milky Way at any time. Astronomers will be watching. "When a star from our Galactic neighbourhood explodes, it could outshine the Moon. Researchers are racing to get ready for the fireworks."
• Janis Ian continues making profound statements on final album, ‘The Light at the End of the Line’. "Janis Ian penned her first hit at age 14 with “Society’s Child,” a song about racial injustice, and has been creating poetic, well-crafted songs for more than five decades since then. In and out of the limelight, her creative spark has endured. And now she has shared her truths at 70 in her latest and, she says, last solo studio album, the bold and nuanced The Light at the End of the Line."
• Environmental consequences of nuclear war. "A regional war involving 100 Hiroshima-sized weapons would pose a worldwide threat due to ozone destruction and climate change. A superpower confrontation with a few thousand weapons would be catastrophic." Just a reminder.
• Spawn of Wordle: five of the best riffs on the hit word game. "Josh Wardle’s viral puzzle game has inspired a horde of imitators, based on anything from geography to Taylor Swift fandom."
• The Russian invasion of Ukraine will have myriad impacts on spaceflight. "If you block cooperation with us, who will save the ISS from an unguided de-orbit?"
• Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick's Abbey Road track-by-track interview: "For the first time, John and Paul knew that George had risen to their level". "A classic 2014 interview with the band's late chief engineer – The musical telepathy between them was mind-boggling."