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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)
“A well-known Dussehra tradition is to worship all weapons, tools, instruments… all articles that are used for progress and prosperity of mankind are worshipped”
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)
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
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)
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Progress links and tweets, 2022-10-12
Link post
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
“A well-known Dussehra tradition is to worship all weapons, tools, instruments… all articles that are used for progress and prosperity of mankind are worshipped”
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)