MargaretC
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MargaretC
Connection and learning
Browsing the internet with another person. Different from an interview in that you see 2 people browsing and discussing at the same time.
Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol
youtube.com
Space Tech and
https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-scientist-and-cartoonist-envision-living-on-the-moon-and-mars/
Fascinating book answering the question - "Have we thought through" living" in space which is totally different from "visiting" space?"
The answer is no.
The economic, physical, biological and legal
barriers are enormous and many of them are pretty much ignored by enthusiasts for settling on the Moon, on Mars or in space habitats.
The book point out that during long lunar nights the moon’s more frigid than Antarctica. It’s also airless, low-gravity, and bombarded with space radiation, and it lacks carbon for growing plants and any valuable minerals.
Mars comes with many of those challenges and more: The dead Martian dirt is filled with poisonous perchlorate, its dust storms are prone to covering outdoor equipment, including much-needed solar panels, and it’s much farther away, which creates a 20-minute time delay when trying to talk to anybody back home. “So that’s Mars. Most of the problems of the Moon, plus toxic dust storms and "half-year" flight each way.
A consistent challenge in my development as a researcher has been: how to cultivate deep, stable concentration in the face of complex, ill-structured creative problems?
In roles oriented around operation and execution, I benefited enormously from standard “productivity” advice. Task managers and time-planning tools were essential. But now, task
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Thelma Toole interview
youtube.comI find that it’s in this search for aesthetic satisfaction that so many of the best lessons are found. I’m not talking about ornamentation or bells and whistles. I’m taking about the beauty of the four Cs: Clarity, cohesion, consistency, and conciseness. If you have the eye, you’ll recognize them easily (even if getting there isn’t quite so easy).
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Write Around the World with Richard E. Grant episode 3
dailymotion.comSpain and Resisting the Steady Path
Covers authors inspired to move to Spain as well as fascism in Spain during and after wwii
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World (The Mysteries of Nature, 1)
amazon.com
Waterstones, Piccadilly, London
27 Dec 2024