Link post Contents
- Links
- Tweets
- Retweets Trying a new experiment: a blog-post digest of my most relevant Twitter content. Let me know any feedback!
Links
-
Our World in Data is looking for a Head of Product & Design
-
Dan Elton is hosting a "Boston area progress studies roundtable discussion"
-
"The FDA has a long, long history of just hating people testing themselves."
-
Matthew Dockrey reads the Philosophical Transactions and makes a video for each
-
Misha Chellam on "broad YIMBYism." And: "Small-d democratic-citizen participation has led to profoundly regressive outcomes." (via @hanlonbt)
Tweets
-
A thread on the history of wheels and steering (I will probably blog this soon)
-
We could use more blog posts summarizing and explaining academic papers
-
Why we can’t have solar-powered cargo ships
-
There is a pessimist argument that basically goes: "Yes, in the past, we invented many things. But, we cannot invent those things again."
-
Bacon on defeatism vs. progress
-
Before the car was a "horseless carriage," the telephone was a "speaking telegraph"
-
Telegraph-based stock tickers were the "infinite scroll" of the 19th century
-
Norman Borlaug’s gift to the world
-
The proper attitude for university students according to Jacob Bronowski
-
Vannevar Bush: "any well-conducted laboratory" has an atmosphere that "almost wholly banishes posing, jockeying for position, and evasiveness"
-
Our health organizations are not set up to deal with pandemics
Retweets
-
Examples of graphs like this for other technologies? (@eric_is_weird)
-
If we don’t get a New Roaring ’20s, what went wrong? (@JimPethokoukis)
-
Adversarial legalism is why we can’t build things anymore in the US (@AlecStapp)
-
"To don a pair of eyeglasses was to cheat old age" (@krisgulati)
-
James Watt and Adam Smith met in Glasgow as young men (@dkedrosky)
-
The world is a museum of passion projects (@collision)
-
Let’s stop saying "there is no evidence for X" and instead say "we are still gathering evidence to know whether X is true". (@Ayjchan) (@zeynep agrees)
-
One of the motivations for Nature was speed of communication. Another was establishing early credit. Today, that sounds like preprints (@NeuroStats)
-
Von Neumann had an interesting style of dealing with people (@curiouswavefn)