We finally watched I, Tonya, (one version of) the story of figure skater Tonya Harding. Standout performances. It was a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of one of sports’ most vilified figures.
🎥 #movie 🍿 🎞
We need more System 2 thinking and imagery connected to System 1 thinking.
Globe and Mail: Why don’t we care about climate change?
“Ignorance and selfishness aren’t the reasons we face environmental catastrophe; it’s the way our ancient brains calculate risk and reward.“
My Modern Met: 36 of the best photographs this year
This time of year always has a cornucopia of great images.
NYT: 13 Stories That Captured Photography in 2018
A story about a famous Dorothea Lange portrait, one on the Freedom Riders fifty years after the rides (fifty years!), and others.
Packenham Bridge (December 26, 2018)
NYT: Where does your state get its electricity?
Interesting to see how things have been changing. (Coal is headed to zero pretty much no matter what else happens.)
Flashback: HyperCard button
This stuff is like some form of dangerous Christmas crack!
Wondering if micro.blog will support MultiMarkdown footnotes.
Got John Fahey: Christmas Guitar • Volume One on, the puzzle edge complete & way too little baking left than we started with.
NYT: As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants.
“Facebook allowed Microsoft… to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consent, … and gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.”
‘Farout!’ Newfound Object Is the Farthest Solar System Body Ever Spotted [space.com]
At 120 AU, it’s the furthest observed, but Sedna is known to travel in an elliptical orbit that reaches much further.
Soon to be followed by a new dark dwarf planet, ‘Outasight’?
Katharine Hayhoe at TEDWomen 2018
Thanks @smokey — so it does! Mea culpa.
Just finished the British crime series Collateral on Netflix. Four 1-hour episodes, interesting characters, great cast. Recommended.
🎥 🎞 #movies #cinema #film #tv #Netflix #HowDoYouTagTheseThings
Birding on Streetview? That’s great!
Here’s the interview and a bit of a summary, and the necessary links.
Comet skymap, bottom part @schuth
Comet viewing over the next few days (if the clouds relent)
Molten Salt and Superconducting Tapes Team Up for an ‘Affordable’ Fusion Reactor
The so-called ARC reactor…stands for “affordable, robust, and compact.” It would be significantly more modular than ITER, the prototype fusion reactor currently under construction in France. [PBS]
Oh, to have been able to read Pence’s thoughts during the Trump-Pelosi-Schumer meeting today!
The Real Roots of American Rage
“The untold story of how anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives—and what we can do about it.”
— The Atlantic
I found this to be compelling & thought-provoking.
”Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.” - Lewis Mumford, 1955.
(from @BrentToderian on Twitter)
Voyager 2 Spacecraft Enters Interstellar Space
After a journey of more than four decades, Voyager 2 has passed beyond the sun’s influence
[Scientific American]
Whoo hoo! Second one to make it out alive! (November 5 is the date to mark on your perpetual calendar.)
Kind of a chicken & egg thing!
China Launches First-Ever Mission to the Moon’s Farside [Scientific American]
“China has successfully launched its Chang’e 4 …, a daring mission to land on the lunar farside for the first time in history.”
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The Chang’e 3’s rover failed after 1 day but the base is still ok.