@collopy also man, Rockefeller Foundation was just everywhere in the history of science and technology in the 20th century!!
@collopy that's super interesting!
@collopy say more!
https://www.britannica.com/video/185632/formation-sand-quartz-role-processes-weathering-grains highlights of this weird video on how quartz becomes sand:
- the "everyday examples" of using sand are making sand castles (sure), keeping time with an hourglass (I guess if you're literally Jafar), and fracking (???)
- comparing quartz chemical bonds (strong) to orthoclase and olivine (weaker): "kind of like how a relationship forged in the heat of passion might not be as stable as deep bond developed over time" did...did something happen to this narrator?
https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-24/ this week in sentences: uncanny allure, the big news, expectations, not insane, all that math, phosphorescent steel
@beep and yet we preserve it lol
@Wolven found a page in...2018?...where I just wrote "corn cobs" in all caps and nothing else, what the hell
@christa incredible people were saying that in like, the late 1970s
@Wolven always good to know when there's a new type of worst guy out there
@Wolven thanks for letting me know that this type of person exists, I don't like it
https://crookedtimber.org/2023/06/08/disinformation-and-the-intercept/ Fixing fuck-ups like this is Journalism Ethics 101.
@janet we debated including that in this episode but ended up cutting for time/narrative flow. The Nakamura paper is great!