Featured Links - April 10, 2023

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

Tea Sea enjoying the spring sunshine

Fungus Meat? Lab-Grown Halibut? Meet the Scientists Growing Your Next Meal. "Solving the climate crisis requires rethinking the way we eat. Is Petri-dish dining the answer?"

The Internet Archive’s Literary Civil War, "The beloved online athenaeum just lost a big court case. Librarians fear it’ll make ebooks less accessible. So why are some writers cheering?"

See How Different This Supernova Looks to Webb Versus Hubble. "Exploded stellar remnants 11,000 light-years away appear much more vivid in a new Webb telescope image." Both scientifically interesting and beautiful.

TREE(3) Is A Number Which Is Impossible To Contain. "It's finite, but you're going to have to trust us." This is probably the most esoteric piece of number theory I've run across. 

12 Sci-Fi Stories Written Before Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. "The Modern Prometheus is a bit too modern to have solely created science fiction, although it did revolutionize it." I've read three of these. How many have you read?

The evolution of SARS-CoV-2. "Our review on the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 is out, where we discuss the evolution of the virus so far and uncertainties and possible scenarios for the future." From Nature, so reputable and worth reading. It's moderately technical but clearly written.

The Road Dragon Paved for Starship. "Over at Supercluster, I have an exclusive interview with Stuart Keech, the senior director of Dragon Engineering at SpaceX, and man in charge of keeping America in the human spaceflight business. We talk about the future of Dragon, its first impending spacewalk, how it will save the Hubble Space Telescope, and how Dragon helped pave the way for Starship.

How Paris Kicked Out the Cars. "A city once remade for voitures has transformed itself into an unlikely utopia for cyclists and pedestrians. What can it teach us?"