This is a linkpost for https://rootsofprogress.org/links-and-tweets-2022-10-12
Announcements
- Our World in Data is hiring a Senior Data Visualization Engineer
- World’s Fair Co looking for space in San Francisco to host meetings with creatives; can anyone help? (@camwiese)
Links
Queries
- Who should Dwarkesh have on his podcast to discuss The Power Broker? (@dwarkesh_sp)
- Are drugs ever redesigned to make them easier to manufacture? (@_brianpotter)
- Who are the “field strategists” in your domain? (@abiylfoyp)
- Fiction that follows the same family throughout multiple centuries? (@FreshMangoLassi)
Tweets
- Public health should be told as part of the story of the Second Industrial Revolution
- Over 50% of the Earth’s fresh surface water is in just three lakes (@lewis_dartnell adds that two are rift lakes formed in tectonic faults)
- “2 + 2 = 5” was literally a Soviet Communist slogan
- “Sveriges Riksbank,” who endowed the econ Nobel, is not some rich dude
- Augustus vs. Stalin
- What dessert does a nuclear reactor want for its birthday?
- The periodic table table, by Theo Gray
Retweets
- Researchers are spending almost half of their time dealing with grants instead of researching (@Ben_Reinhardt)
- Far-UVC light is a promising tool to fight airborne germs (@arpitrage)
- Every plan to decarbonize assumes the power grid gets builds out (@JohnArnoldFndtn)
- Claim: nearly 40% of Europe’s “carbon neutral” energy is obtained from burning wood (@DoombergT)
- “Subjective measures of wellbeing but with vivid anchors” (@mbateman)
- Captain Picard, prompt engineer (@rickasaurus)