Links to things I found interesting but didn't want to do a full blog post about.
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| Overlooking the marsh |
- How a Single Human Hair Nearly Halted a SpaceX Launch. "A strand of hair briefly disrupted the recent SpaceX Crew-5 launch, showcasing the perils posed by even the most innocuous of objects."
- Strong and Stable! Scottish SFF author Charlie Stross weighs in on the current chaotic state of politics in the UK.
- Part of lost star catalog of Hipparchus found lurking under medieval codex. "Multispectral imaging revealed hidden original text on Codex Climaci Rescriptus."
- Lost something? Search through 91.7 million files from the ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s. "Discmaster lets you sift through 11 terabytes of CD-ROM and floppy disk archives."
- Addressing Putin’s Nuclear Threat: Thinking Like the Cold War KGB Officer That He Was. "The unfortunate reality is that Putin can’t be stopped without significant costs, but allowing him to normalize the use of weapons of mass destruction would start the inevitable clock to a direct and possibly catastrophic US-Russian conflict. "
- Endothelial dysfunction in COVID-19: an overview of evidence, biomarkers, mechanisms and potential therapies. "SARS-CoV-2 infection primarily affects the pulmonary system, but accumulating evidence suggests that it also affects the pan-vasculature in the extrapulmonary systems."
- Did cars kill urban life? "You can’t have cities without civility."
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