links 5/15/25: https://roamresearch.com/#/app/srcpublic/page/05-15-2025

• https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/nuclear-reactors-for-dummies classifies nuclear reactors
• https://www.imprint.org/press-release-may-2025
  • "Imprint is building tools to reconstruct immune histories from memory B cells and T cells at scale. This ‘forensic immunology’ approach aims to unlock the secrets held within memory immune cells, which contain an archive of all immune exposures throughout a person’s life – essentially a web browser history of diseases and their hidden triggers."
• https://www.construction-physics.com/p/fixing-naval-ship-acquisition  the Navy can streamline ship procurement by designing its own ships (!), using simpler, special purpose ships, and completing design before construction.
  • up until the 1960s, in-house ship design was the norm.
  • now, military contractors do not have full-time design teams employed (!) and design is routinely concurrent with building, which increases costs.
• https://arcadiamedicine.com/ intended to develop short-acting analogues of MDMA for therapeutic use
• https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/i-used-to-be-a-high-performing-robot no, when Cate Hall talks about "agency" she doesn't just mean being high-achieving. being a "high-performing robot" drove her to alcoholism. agency, to her, means the opposite of all that.
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06592-6 UK Biobank proteomic study
• https://backofmind.substack.com/p/boredom-is-a-form-of-pain Dan Davies says you should not ignore boredom while reading something; that's a sign that you're forcing yourself to process info you don't understand.