Progress links and tweets, 2022-10-12

[jasoncrawford]

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)