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WBH Weekly Digest 2023-07-21: Hand-drawn

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-07-21: Hand-drawn

Yes, it has been two weeks, but I insist it is still a weekly digest. The Courageous Life and Death of Rick Rescorla, a 9/11 HeroThe Vietnam veteran helped save hundreds of lives on September 11th, before he was swallowed by the South Tower collapse. “For Rick Rescorla, this

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Linkfest 2022-06-10: S-curves

FreakTakes: When do ideas get easier to find? Last week I said that I’m convinced that the progress of technology usually follows an S-curve. This is a good illustration of what I mean. If you pick your metrics right, you can make a story of linear progress on the

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 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

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