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Nuclear Weapons and the Yips
Some notes & quotes from recent reads: Inside the Delicate Art of Maintaining America’s Aging Nuclear Weapons Quotes: In an ultra-sterile room at a…
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Grind, Fill, and Spill
The film Psycho was groundbreaking and significant for many reasons—among them that it was one of the first movies to be shown at theaters at a specific…
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Vanilla and Tennis Marketing
Some notes & quotes from recent reads: How Did Vanilla Become a Byword for Blandness? (paywall-free link) Quotes: If, presented with all the ice cream…
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Cookbook Fonts and Long Wave Radio
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Price Innovation
Many of history’s most infamous (and celebrated) weapons are newly empowered versions of something that came before. The atomic bomb was a really…
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Lunar Power Grid and Brotox
Some notes & quotes from recent reads: How to Build a Power Grid on the Moon Quotes: The early forays to the moon employed throwaway technologies…
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Creative Grief
There's a feeling some people get after finishing a major project that's a bit like stepping off a treadmill after a long, plodding marathon, but also a…
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Preppers and Acting Economics
Some notes & quotes from recent reads: You’re Not Going to Make It Quotes: I read about this one family... They were tired of society. They thought…
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Knowledge Half-Life
There's an interesting concept, originally attributed to an economist who focused his research on figuring out how much knowledge is worth, called the…
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The iMac and a 6,000-Mile Walk
Some notes & quotes from recent reads: iMac At 25: A Visual History of Apple’s Iconic All-In-One Computer Quotes: What’s an all-in-one computer? It…
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House Centipedes
No matter where you live in the world you'll have to deal with pests. The nature of these pests will vary, including how directly they pester you, what…
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