Featured Links - January 23, 2023

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

Winter trees

The Water Myth. "It is a common belief that you have to drink 6-8 glasses of water per day, but this myth comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of some basic physiology."

NASA Reveals Tantalizing Details About Webb Telescope’s Successor. "The Habitable Worlds Observatory now has a name, a rough timeline, and a whole lot of hype."

My Week With the Future of Garbage Bins. The internet of things comes to garbage bins. You might laugh but this product makes sense.

The World Through a Copyeditor’s Eyes. "Advocate. Prose custodian. Adjunct to the life of the mind. A person in my role wears many hats—and keeps many secrets." Although my title at work said "technical writer", I spent a lot of time editing. This article is quite accurate. 

Zaha Hadid's, Under Construction, Chengdu Science Fiction Museum Will Host Worldcon 2023. This is an amazing building and will be a fitting setting for the WorldCon, assuming it's finished by October.

The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks (YouTube link): They don't work the way you might think they do.

An enormous Martian cloud returns every spring. Scientists found out why. "What's causing this natural wonder on the Red Planet?"

Starlink Is ‘Forced’ To Finally Start Caring About The System’s Light Pollution And Harm To Scientific Research. I've posted about this before. It's about time that SpaceX is being forced to do something about it.