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Eduardo Machuca @ PetaPixel: Goodbye Aberration: Physicist Solves 2,000-Year-Old Optical Problem
“The second surface is such that it corrects all the aberration generated by the first surface, and the spherical aberration is eliminated.”

[personal profile] stultiloquentia: How Conservative is P&P?
YOU THINK I'M TOMFOOLERING, but HAH, Darcy's entire growth arc boils down to, "You can't just be good and do good; you've got to put in a modicum of effort to make people feel good—via your kindly address and expressions—because participating in society includes being polite, and your social inferiors deserve to have a nice time without being sneered at by Mr. Fitzpompous looming in the corner; in conclusion, go read Samuel Johnson.³"

David Roberts @ Vox: Friendly policies keep US oil and coal afloat far more than we thought
As subsidies age, they start to look less like subsidies. They start looking like fixed features of the landscape, like mountains or rivers, rather than choices we are making. They just look like the status quo.

Bill McKibben @ the Guardian: At last, divestment is hitting the fossil fuel industry where it hurts
Indeed, early divesters have made out like green-tinged bandits: since the fossil fuel sector has badly underperformed on the market over recent years, moving money into other investments has dramatically increased returns

Tegan Phillips + Will Barbour @ the Weekly Scribble: What is the female stress response and why is it interesting? [source research]
But in the face of these modern threats, as opposed to threats in the wild, I wonder which sex-based biological (hormonal) response-types are actually the most practical for promoting the wellbeing of our species? Let’s see…

Date: 2019-07-10 03:38 pm (UTC)
thenewbuzwuzz: converse on tree above ground (Default)
From: [personal profile] thenewbuzwuzz
Lovely links, thank you!

Date: 2019-07-13 04:54 am (UTC)
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)
From: [personal profile] silveradept
A lot of fun, those. I especially like the illustrations that go with the stress response piece.
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