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Linkfest 2020-12-11: Eggnog, Risk Tolerance, and Hinges

The HobbitHouse Ilustrated Glossary of Woodworking terms Good Thomist that I am, I find a clear set of terms marvelous for clear thinking Dietrich Vollrath: When did productivity growth slow down? Total factor productivity, and the lack of growth thereof, is a common theme on With Both Hands. “O Magnum

Linkfest 2020-12-04: Protein Folding and the Apocalypse

Labroots: How Detective Geologists are Tracing Illegal Sand I’ve certainly snarked that glass recycling is silly because we aren’t in danger of running out of sand, but intensive sand mining for use in concrete aggregate can certainly have bad consequences. In the Pipeline: What’s Crucial and What

Linkfest 2020-11-27: Black Friday Edition

The Dispossession of the Post-war Boom A look at what changed in one neighborhood in Buffalo between the 1920s and the 1950s, as reflected in the houses buit. Lore and RPGs The Last Redoubt offers up a defense of not investing too heavily in lore, the background information of RPGs,

Linkfest 2020-11-20: Metahistorical Models

Peak Oil Never Went Away Peak Oil is something I’ve often had cause to discuss on With Both Hands. It is of the class of theories that John J. Reilly loved, metahistorical theories using simplified assumptions like Henry Adam’s energy predictions, Moore’s Law, Eroom’s Law, and

Linkfest 2020-11-13: Friday the Thirteenth Edition

Naive Modeling In this post from John D Cook on creating models that miss the point references a classic example of an attempt to optimize the wrong thing, the amount of metal used in a can. Letter from a cat food company to a math professor explaining why they don&

Linkfest 2020-11-06

We Will Mock the Brave and Wise According to the PBS special on Sputnik, President Eisenhower let the Soviets get ahead in the race to space in order to establish a legal precedent they would have a difficult time protesting. Even now, it is hard to appreciate how many things

Linkfest 2020-10-30

I recently saw a listing of the bar tab from the United States Constitutional Convention, and it reminded me of this series of posts from 2012 on an attempt to drink like a colonial. There was a reason for the temperance movement. Sensor Sweep continues to provide some of the