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Linkfest 2022-05-12: To Be A Man

Alastair’s Adversaria: A Crisis of Discourse—Part 2: A Problem of Gender I read this a number of years ago, and I came upon it again in the course of another discussion. It is still great. Spotted Toad: The Coin Flip I count the Speckled Amphibian as a Facts

The history of science clubs

In reading JD Cowan’s series on The Immortal Storm, a history of the foundation of science fiction fandom in the 1930s, one of the major conflicts that developed in those early days was between fans who were interested in science as such, and those who wanted stories about fantastical

Air Filtration is an underutilized COVID mitigation option

Yesterday, I finished building a set of 27 air purifiers for the school my kids go to. I’m writing up this blog post because I believe that air filtration is not as widely used as it could be, given the relative ease of implementation. My wife sent me a

The Cold Equations

Dominic Cummings re-posted a link to his 2017 discussion of systems engineering as applied to politics, and since it touches on just about every theme I like to discuss here at With Both Hands, I thought it would be worth exploring in some detail. Systems engineering is something you could

Linkfest 2021-09-17: The Great Tree

A thread on the strange connections in technological development. And my favorite comment, a joke about Civilization tech trees. BBC: Saudi Arabia camel carvings dated to prehistoric era The now long defunct Anthropogene blog had some great stuff on the pre-history of Arabia. There was a time when Arabia was

Antibody titers to rule them all

I was looking through the FDA briefing document for the upcoming advisory committee meeting on the Pfizer 3rd dose booster shots for their COMIRNATY vaccine [previously known as BNT162b2]. I found it a little lighter on data than I expected, with the primary focus on antibody levels in the blood

Linkfest 2021-08-27: The Götterdämmerung of the Experts

Galaxy Magazine 1968: Pro and Con This ad from a 1968 issue of Galaxy magazine is a fascinating glimpse into the controversies of the past, and an opportunity for us to reflect on current events in Afghanistan. I didn’t find a lot of surprises in the authors who signed