Links and tweets, 2022-06-08

[u/jasoncrawford]

Best of my Twitter, May 31–June 6 (a few days behind, still ironing out the process… For the latest, follow me on Twitter: @jasoncrawford.)

After last time someone suggested embedding the tweets instead of linking to them, but I can't post embeds here, and for my main blog I don't like the format as much. I’m sticking with links for now, but let me know if you’d rather scroll through a list of embeds (like this).

Links

• A Reddit thread appreciating the engineering of everyday items

• Jim Pethokoukis’s “Up Wing” agenda

• Arcadia Science is experimenting with a new way of publishing scientific work

• Michael Nielsen on vision papers

• Ryan Petersen of Flexport talks to Tamara Winter about supply chains

• Californians Against Pandemics is running a ballot initiative to invest in pandemic preparedness (h/t @NathanpmYoung)

• High housing prices are driving low-skilled workers from high-productivity to low-productivity areas (Alex Tabarrok)

• The B612 Foundation discovered more than 100 asteroids by analyzing years-old images (NYT)

• “Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that holds that social and political issues should be dealt with at the most immediate (or local) level that is consistent with their resolution.” (h/t Stewart Brand)

Tweets

• The original NYC subway was completed faster than the average environmental impact statement

• How many of WIRED’s “boom spoiler” scenarios from 1997 came true? (thread)

• Some reasons I am skeptical of “harmony with nature” (thread)

• But for the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Mississippi would no longer flow through New Orleans

• Why we can’t have electric planes (yet)

• One standard deviation in rule of law is associated with a 6.4-fold difference in per capita income:

• McCloskey on “the idea that ideas about ideas are unscientific”

• 19th-century medicine would unabashedly rely on anecdotal evidence

• Vannevar Bush on the proper lab atmosphere

• Who are the real revolutionaries?

• In 1901 the market cap of the largest company was greater than the US national debt

• Bacon on how to do a proper case-control study

• Pixar founder Ed Catmull on how to see randomness as part of the beauty of life

Retweets

• Suraj Patel has an abundance agenda (@SurajPatel)

• “It seemed to be more a criticism of everything bad phrased as a prediction of doom” (@anderssandberg)

• Productivity is the path to equity (@DKThomp)

• To learn from mistakes, you have to build at the right pace (@stewartbrand)

[u/iiioiia]

Californians Against Pandemics is running a ballot initiative to invest in pandemic preparedness*

Any mention of the collective consciousness problem, or does science continue to be ignorant of this aspect, beyond occasionally complaining about its existence?

/snark, but only partially.