Jack Reid

Thomas O. Paine - Wikipedia

Amusingly enough his namesake was NASA Administrator when we got to the moon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...

Did the underlying data come geocoded? If not, what did you use for geocoding? I'm always on the lookout for good geocoding methods

In and Out - Futility Closet The briefest interview I’ve ever conducted was with Renato Dulbecco, who has since shared in a Nobel Prize for work in animal-cell culture and tumor viruses. Through his secretary, we had made an appo...

Not endorsing this stance but I do appreciate the honesty shown here: www.futilitycloset.com/2019/08/21/i...

At work we once pitched an outré graphic by our (conservative) standards. At each stage of review, we kept hearing the same thing: "I love this but [next reviewer] is going to shoot it down."

We kept responding with "Okay, let them." And then it never came. Graphic came out, people loved it.

There's also the funny element that the Soviet program was much *more* capitalistic than the US program, with multiple distinct (government) programs competing for funds and support for a much larger chunk of the Space Race than on the US side.

Yep, plus it implies that only college students are deserving of such protections

Closely related to this is building infrastructure to handle various forms of bad behavior (including assaults) within the university rather than working to build such infrastructure for all of society.

You're the best! Thanks so much! Now gonna binge the back catalog

I somehow missed that @cassandrasteer.bsky.social and @acsg.bsky.social launched a successor to the Space Law podcast. So excited! Do y'all have any RSS feed anywhere though? I can't find one anywhere and don't use Spotify.

My historian friend says "Fake news!! He wrote that in Philadelphia. That is the Chipotle where Nathaniel Hawthorne published The Scarlet Letter!"

I somehow think this is even better.

Reminds me of this scene from Only Yesterday. And the fact that earthworms aren't native to North America. They dramatically reshaped decomposition and growth across the continent. No undoing that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasiv...

It recently ended, but the back catalog of Chatter might be good. It's national security, but about talking with fiction authors (e.g. spy thrillers), movie directors, historians, etc. rather than contemporary news.

oh woah, now this has me wondering if Remedios Varo made a tarot deck. I would travel to see such a thing.

I just finished Thinking! Gonna get started on Willing soon. After that would be very interested in your take of Judgement.