Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about.
- What We Can Learn From How the 1918 Pandemic Ended. Unfortunately, it seems we are repeating the same mistakes made a hundred years ago.
- Here are the salts you need in your kitchen and why. I am not convinced any of this matters very much.
- The Year in Review 2021 by Gary K. Wolfe. A look back at the science fiction and fantasy of 2021 from one the field's top reviewers.
- Google Search on the desktop may soon integrate Lens. This will make it even more useful.
- M-19 “Gurkolyot”: Grab the Problem by the Throat, Not the Tail. A Soviet-era plan for a nuclear-powered SSTO spaceplane.
- THE JACKPOT: How London Became A Concierge for Kleptocrats. "Novelist Cory Doctorow tracks Britain’s domestic scandals back to the capital’s reliance on laundered money from overseas, and the feasting of so many professions on the proceeds."
- Does the human lifespan have a limit? "Super-centenarians offer clues as demographers and scientists lock horns over one of the world’s oldest research questions."
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