Here are 2 recent (post-“inexplicable-US-failure-to-respond-to-COVID-19”) articles from The Atlantic that might be worth looking at. One claims that “It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but…
Because of the coronavirus scare, the university’s chancellor just sent out an email, stating that: “Our campus will be transitioning to remote instruction for the remainder of Winter Quarter and…
I’ve learnt something new from the BBC today about illicit world trade in timber. Senegalese rosewood trees are being poached and smuggled across the border to the Gambia, where they…
Two Thursdays ago, teaching assistants at UC Santa Barbara collected on the lawn in front of the Physical Sciences North building to demonstrate in favor of a cost of living…
Let’s all take a moment, or a little while longer, to remember the mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson, who died on 28 February at age 96. The New York Times has…
This is an enjoyable story about agricultural land management in England. The protagonist is Jake Fiennes, eldest and troublemakerest (I guess) of the famous Fiennes brothers. He now spends his…
We moved back to California from Austria recently and have been digging through stuff we had in storage in LA. (By weight, books must be the biggest component.) Among the…
Google pushes the weirdest stuff to my phone. I happen to be waiting for some climate model data to process, which my janky R scripting has pushed my computer to…
This unifies two things dear to my heart: Scotch whiskey and radiocarbon. Also there’s really nothing more authentic than scammery at the centre of a story on whiskey. Historically, the…
