Featured Links - October 23, 2023

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

Autumn colours

• Doomscroller vs. Windtunneler. "How to expose the fallacies of "it'll never happen" arguments." Some good advice from science fiction author and futurist, Karl Schroeder.
• Anesthetists discover how NOT to use Excel. "A British medical office has made a right mess of selecting trainee anesthetists by the misuse of Excel. Let’s look at what happened and some ways you can avoid similar mistakes." Data analysis is not for amateurs.
• How can we be alone in the universe? You may be surprised at the answer.
• The gentrification font: how a sleek typeface became a neighborhood omen. "The clean, modern typeface has adorned the New Yorker, Shake Shack and even. HBO’s Girls – now it might bedeck your last home."
• The Dangerous Mystery of Hamas’ Missing ‘Suicide Drones’. "Hamas has long touted its military drones, but little is known about the true scale of the threat. The answer may have consequences for people on both sides of the Israel-Gaza border." impacting our climate, new research suggests."
• Metals from spacecraft reentry in stratospheric aerosol particles. "Measurements show that about 10% of the aerosol particles in the stratosphere contain aluminum and other metals that originated from the “burn-up” of satellites and rocket stages during reentry. Although direct health or environmental impacts at ground level are unlikely, these measurements have broad implications for the stratosphere and higher altitudes. With many more launches planned in the coming decades, metals from spacecraft reentry could induce changes in the stratospheric aerosol layer."
• Elizabeth May: Good Riddance to the Impact Assessment Act. "The Greens co-leader explains why she cheered when the Supreme Court slammed the Liberals’ environmental review law C-69."