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"It’s easy enough to write the protesters off as silly purveyors of nonsense, but after reading a post by my friend Wil, I remembered something I witnessed this year and San Diego Comic-Con that just destroyed any and all cynicism I had been feeling about the show, and got me REALLY upset about the message of the protesters outside."

On calling out sexist harrassment

2018: UK heat wave reveals the outlines of ancient Roman and older sites under crop fields as plants grow differently within the remnants of ancient walls and moats. The article doesn’t make it clear why this is unique to heat waves, though.

"People everywhere have always had a sweet tooth for the unreal, enthralled by what should be taken as too good to be true."

"If you want to know how we get something from nothing, you’d better understand what we mean!"

"Storage is the most difficult problem in information technology. Why? Because entropy is always working to destroy our data. There's only one strategy that works."

Interesting read from a few years back on access to healthcare in modern America vs. medieval Europe. Medicine is much better now, but even peasants had better access.

Realistic visible-light depictions of roughly what Earth would have looked like in the distant past with previous continental arrangements.